Steely Dan - The Good lyrics

Some folks always get the rough ride

Seem they end up on the wrong side

Constant battle just to survive on any given day

I watched a mother on my TV

Hungry children that she can't feed

Still I've got everything that I need

And that just don't seem right

That I sleep safe tonight

There's got to be some rhyme or reason why

We turn away and we close our eyes

If I could find some way that we could justify all of this suffering

There but for the grace of God go I

Mother Earth is down on her knees

Poison rivers run to dead seas

Cities eating up the green fields

We never question why

How truth turns into lies

There's got to be some rhyme or reason why

We turn away and we close our eyes

If I could find some way that we could justify all of this suffering

There but for the grace of God go I

Sometimes it's hard to believe

In a truth that you can't even see

But faith holds the hope for the world

And I know, I know

There's got to be some rhyme or reason why

We turn away and we close our eyes

If I could find some way that we could justify all of this suffering

There but for the grace of God go I

When I'm thinking it's a bad day

Feels like nothing's going my way

I pass a wreck out on the freeway

And I pray that they survived

There but for the grace of God go I