[Verse 1]
I'm going to make a chicken gumbo
Toss some sausage in the pot
I'm going to flavor it with okra
Cheyenne pepper to make it hot

[Refrain]
You know life is what we make of it
So beautiful or so what

[Verse 2]
I'm going to tell my kids a bedtime story
A play without a plot
Will it have a happy ending?
Maybe yeah, maybe not

[Refrain]
I tell them life is what you make of it
So beautiful or so what
So beautiful, so beautiful
So what

[Verse 3]
I'm just a raindrop in a bucket
A coin dropped in a slot
I am an empty house on Weed Street
Across the road from a vacant lot
[Refrain]
You know life is what you make of it
So beautiful or so what

[Chorus]
Isn't it strange the way we're ignorant, how we seek out bad advice
How we jigger it and figure it, mistaking value for the price
And play a game with time and love like a pair of rolling dice
So beautiful, so beautiful, so what

[Bridge]
Four men on the balcony overlooking the parking lot
Pointing at a figure in the distance, Dr. King has just been shot
And the sirens' long melody singing "Savior, pass me not"

[Chorus]
Isn't it strange the way we're ignorant, how we seek out bad advice
How we jigger it and figure it, mistaking value for the price
And play a game with time and love like a pair of rolling dice
So beautiful, so beautiful, so what