It's a pity, it's a crying shame

People hold you down again

How painful it must be

To bruise so easily inside

It's a pity, it's a downright crime

It happens all the time

You want to stay little daddy's girl

You want to hide from the vicious world outside

Don't cry, you know the tears will do no good

So dry your eyes

Oh, your daddy, he's the iron man

battleship wrecked on dry land

Your mamma she's a bitter bride

She'll never be satisfied, you know

And that's not right.

But don't cry, you know the tears will do no good

So dry your eyes

Oh, they told you life is hard

misery from the start,

it's dull, it's slow, it's painful

But I tell you life is sweet

In spite of the misery

There's so much more, be grateful

Well, who do you believe

Who will you listen to

Who will it be

'cause it's high time that you decide

in your own mind

I've tried to comfort you

I've tried to tell you to be patient

They are blind, and they can't see

Fortune gonna come one day

They're all gonna fade away

Your daddy the war machine

And your momma the long and suffering

Prisoner of what she cannot see

For they told you life is hard

Misery from the start,

It's dull, it's slow, it's painful

But I tell you life is sweet

In spite of the misery

There's so much more, be grateful

So, who will you believe

Who will you listen to

Who will it be

'cause it's high time that you decide

It's time to make up your own

your own state of mind

Oh they told you life is long

Be thankful when it's done

Don't ask for more, be grateful

But I tell you life is short

Be thankful because

Before you know it

it will be over

'cause life is sweet, life is also very short

life is sweet and life is also very short

life is sweet