I rolled out this mornin'
Kids had the mornin'
news show on
Bryant Gumbel was talkin'
'bout the fightin' in Lebanon
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 a liquor store
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 steals a plane
How I wanna hear
the anchor man
talk about a county fair
And how we cleaned
up the air
How everybody learned
to care
Oh tell me
nobody was assassinated
in the whole
third world today
And in the streets of lreland
all the children had
to do was play
And everybody loves
everybody in
the good oId USA
We sure could use
a little good news today
Nobody robbed a liquor store
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