We Sure Could Use a Little Good News Today

I rolled out this morning...kids had the mornin' news show on
Katie Couric was talkin' 'bout the fighting in Babylon
Some senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economy
It's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy

There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
One more sad story's one more than I can stand
Just once how I'd like to see the headline say
Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say

Because...

Nobody robbed an old lady on the lower part of town
Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today

I'll come home this evenin'...I'll bet that the news will be the same
Somebody takes a hostage... somebody else to blame
How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care

Whoa, tell me...

Nobody was assassinated in the whole dang world today
And in the streets of N'Orleans, all the children had to do was play
And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA
We sure could use a little good news today

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