Bhi Bhiman is a singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri. His most recent album is Rhythm & Reason.
I really hope Precedent Trump is more bark than bite, but he talks like a wanna-be dictator. Waging verbal war to muffle and discredit the news media (no normal, innocent human being does that). Pitting races and ethnicities against each other, and continuing to complain about a wasteland nation that few of us recognize, just so he can say he restored it to greatness (already done!). These are tactics of nationalistic creeps across the world in places like Russia, Syria, and Turkey. And his dog whistles get my Spidey-senses tingling. In my parents homeland of Sri Lanka, the government used similar lies and strong-arm tactics while they bombed thousands of innocent citizens in 2009. So I don't play that game. It's a dark and dangerous road. And there's nothing funny about peace, love, and understanding.
As I walk on through this wicked world, Searching for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself, Is all hope lost? Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? And as I walked on through troubled times, My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes, So where are the strong?, And who are the trusted?, And where is the harmony?, Sweet harmony 'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? So where are the strong?, And who are the trusted?, And where is the harmony?, Sweet harmony 'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? -- Lyrics and music originally written by Nick Lowe