Every day it's the same when they say that it might be the end

In the end when it ends then I'll listen to them

You wake up, go to work, go to sleep

Then you do it, you do it, if you're lucky then you do it again

Yeah, we walk through a world that we don't understand

When I look in your eyes I'm just happy I can

Yeah, we'll laugh and we'll cry and we'll lose and we'll win

We'll get through it and to prove it yeah we'll do it again

There's glory in the saddest story

Look at it, just sticks and bricks

Makes you wonder how the pieces fit

Where we're going, where we've been

This ain't paradise we're living in

It's a diamond, it's a dirty plastic pearl

Ah, but ain't it a beautiful world?

It's a shame when they say that it's been done and said

They keep digging that grave, let them bury their heads

There's a kid with a dream and a sky full of stars

There's another first kiss in the back of some car

Turn a page and write the story

Look at it, just sticks and bricks

Makes you wonder how the pieces fit

Where we're going, where we've been

This ain't paradise we're living in

It's a diamond, it's a dirty plastic pearl

Ah, but ain't it a beautiful world?

They're running numbers out of the Spanish grocery

And Mary Mary says her rosary

We get a ladder, there's a cat up in a tree

Ah, the pretzel man's wearing Gucci glasses

A widow spreads her lover's ashes

I'll hold on to you, hold on to me, yeah

We'll do it, we'll do it, yeah, we're lucky then we'll do it again, ah

Look at it, just sticks and bricks

Makes you wonder how the pieces fit

Where we're going, where we've been

This ain't paradise we're living in

It's a diamond, it's a dirty string of pearls

Ah, ain't it a beautiful world?

Oh, ain't it a beautiful world?

Oh, oh, ain't it a beautiful world?