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Backstory:

Lot of different influences here - my own experience at the shore, my late father-in-law actually "laughing at children in the street/Running for the ice cream man in their bare feet," with a little bit of Ralph Waldo Emerson in the bridge as in, "the earth laughs in flowers."

Lyrics:

                                                  
(IT'S NOT REALLY) A BAD WORLD
(words & music by Petro G. Papageorge)

V1:
Have you ever seen the sunrise from the shore?
Felt the ocean lap your feet and heard its roar?
Sensed the meaning of your life in its rapport
Which made your heart feel new?
Oh, it could happen to you

CHORUS:	
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find the one you love
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find that love's enough

V2:
Hear the old man laugh at children in the street
Running for the ice cream man in their bare feet
All the flavors of the summertime are sweet
When your heart is full	  

CHORUS:	
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find the one you love
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find that love's enough

Bridge:	
Who can say what the hands of life will bring?
Or if being here adds up to anything?
Still the earth is laughing flowers in the Spring
Laughing bright out loud   

CHORUS:	
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find the one you love
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find that love's enough
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find the one you love
Oooo, IT'S NOT REALLY A BAD WORLD
When you find that love's enough
When you find that love's enough
(fade)

©Once in a Lifetime Music (BMI)