Sad

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It's about all the sad stuff I see in the world
I see a lot of sad stuff and it's called sad
                
Get on my, level Maddison. Just
picture a depressed onion
cutting itself.
                     
                
I met a homeless man named Rich
Isn't that terrible?
I saw a flyer for a lost dog
And the dog didn't have any legs
I saw a diabetic kid
trick-or-treating
I saw a giraffe who had a short
neck
That was sad, or a deer
I saw an old man get hit by a
train
He didn't see it in the pouring
rain
He didn't hear me shout, "Look
out for the train!"
Because I didn't say anything.
             
I just thought to myself, "Ooh,
this is gonna be sad."
And it was.
I'm a genius.
I saw a man with only one eye
In a 3D movie
I saw a little boy drop his ice
cream cone
Directly on his mother's corpse
I saw a kitten stuck in a tree
Then the kitten jumped off and
he hung himself
I saw a boy who had red hair.
I went to a store looking for
something to buy
But they only sold paintings of
the same sad guy
No, wait--this store sells
mirrors!
See what I did there?
Let's rock! No.
Bridge
         
         
Spoken
The world's so sad, Maddison.
Pain, war, genocide, racism,
sexism.
But I've gotta remember there's
good things about it too.
Like the fact that none of
that's happening to me! Score!
Still, though, it's hard not to
be sad about it.
How do y'all do it?
I've been telling you guys terribly sad things this whole song; you
haven't been sad at all.
You've been happy--no, you've
been laughing.
That's it, laughter, it's the
key to everything.
It's the way to solve all the
sadness in the world!
I mean not for the people that
are actually sad,
but the people like us that've
gotta fucking deal with them all
the time.
Being a comedian isn't being an
insensitive prick
capitalizing on the most
animalistic impulses of the
public;
it's being a hero! The world
isn't sad. The world's funny!
I'm a sociopath!
I saw an old man slip and fall
Hey, what a fucking idiot
I saw a woman at her daughter's
funeral
Ha ha ha. Classic comedy.
Everything that once was sad
Is somehow funny now
The Holocaust and 9/11
That shit's funny 24/7, cuz
Tragedy will be exclusively
joked about
Because my empathy is bumming me
out
Goodbye, sadness
Hello jokes.

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Sad

Bo Burnham

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Intro
It's about all the sad stuff I see in the world
I see a lot of sad stuff and it's called sad
                
Get on my, level Maddison. Just
picture a depressed onion
cutting itself.
                     
                
I met a homeless man named Rich
Isn't that terrible?
I saw a flyer for a lost dog
And the dog didn't have any legs
I saw a diabetic kid
trick-or-treating
I saw a giraffe who had a short
neck
That was sad, or a deer
I saw an old man get hit by a
train
He didn't see it in the pouring
rain
He didn't hear me shout, "Look
out for the train!"
Because I didn't say anything.
             
I just thought to myself, "Ooh,
this is gonna be sad."
And it was.
I'm a genius.
I saw a man with only one eye
In a 3D movie
I saw a little boy drop his ice
cream cone
Directly on his mother's corpse
I saw a kitten stuck in a tree
Then the kitten jumped off and
he hung himself
I saw a boy who had red hair.
I went to a store looking for
something to buy
But they only sold paintings of
the same sad guy
No, wait--this store sells
mirrors!
See what I did there?
Let's rock! No.
Bridge
         
         
Spoken
The world's so sad, Maddison.
Pain, war, genocide, racism,
sexism.
But I've gotta remember there's
good things about it too.
Like the fact that none of
that's happening to me! Score!
Still, though, it's hard not to
be sad about it.
How do y'all do it?
I've been telling you guys terribly sad things this whole song; you
haven't been sad at all.
You've been happy--no, you've
been laughing.
That's it, laughter, it's the
key to everything.
It's the way to solve all the
sadness in the world!
I mean not for the people that
are actually sad,
but the people like us that've
gotta fucking deal with them all
the time.
Being a comedian isn't being an
insensitive prick
capitalizing on the most
animalistic impulses of the
public;
it's being a hero! The world
isn't sad. The world's funny!
I'm a sociopath!
I saw an old man slip and fall
Hey, what a fucking idiot
I saw a woman at her daughter's
funeral
Ha ha ha. Classic comedy.
Everything that once was sad
Is somehow funny now
The Holocaust and 9/11
That shit's funny 24/7, cuz
Tragedy will be exclusively
joked about
Because my empathy is bumming me
out
Goodbye, sadness
Hello jokes.