"(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" (Nick Lowe, 1974). Made famous by Elvis Costello and his band The Attractions in 1978, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” was included in his 1979 Armed Forces LP and beautifully mocks the cynical generation that would eventually become the forever hated yuppies. More than 30 years later the song still rings true concerning all those soulless neo-yuppies who think that peace, love, and understanding is “funny.” We include the original video of this classic song as well as a great live performance when Costello guess-hosted David Letterman’s Late Night in 2003 and the sublime version from A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (2008) sung by Stephen Colbert, Elvis Costello, Feist, Toby Keith, John Legend and Willie Nelson. What’s so funny?!
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' 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 & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & 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 slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?