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(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions
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Jeff Thompson1 week agoI’m playing this song over and over again during these horrible times. Thank you Elvis and Nick for your beautiful work.46REPLYView 3 replies
batgurrl1 month agoI’m here in April 2020 Everyone stay healthy and safe☮️79REPLYView 2 replies
Maryanne Sobocinski1 year agoOn this day in 1977 Declan Patrick MacManus quit his day job at Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics to become Elvis Costello. Great move! xoxox115REPLYView 7 replies
1groovygreg3 years agoNick Lowe wrote the song and Mr. Costello immortalized it. Both are talented artists of a sadly bygone generation of music.186REPLYView 17 replies
Fandom D. Saint10 months agoLEGION SEND ME HERE!!!!!! That was a crazy episode 5 of Season 3 ?323REPLYView 16 replies
Jennifer Felan1 week ago (edited)After all this chaos going on with COVID 19 and now the violent tragedy of George Floyd, I really needed to hear this today. Thank you for posting this song. Stay safe everyone!??8REPLYView reply
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 want to 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 want to 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 want to 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?
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Matthew Veal3 years agothis song needs to be played a lot more, as meaningful of a song as i have ever heard53REPLYView reply
Chas No2 years agoGAWD!!! What a defiant, upraised, middle finger to a hateful world of murder, death and hatred? Elvis Costello did that, because everybody else didn’t think it would sell, and he didn’t care if it would sell. What a truth-teller!!!38REPLYView 4 replies
Anna Elizabeth Wade4 years agoBest song ever and should be played out across the hilltops and cities at any time of crisis. Want it to be the one they play at my funeral when they put me in the ground… 🙂102REPLYView 11 replies
iadcrjca6 days agoNever more poignant than it is today. Indeed, we need a little Peace, Love and Understanding.4REPLY
kandy langford4 years agoSorry, but this is my absolute favorite Elvis Costello rendition…33REPLYView reply
Mago Gosora3 years agoUattsoh Fahn’nie Bauht Pees’lubn Andistan’dhin?16REPLY
Cranger824 years agoLost in translation109REPLYView 5 replies
1-Shot slinger8 months ago (edited)Nick Lowe , you wrote a beautiful song here ! Elvis did it justice !27REPLY
omfug4 years agoI needed this tonight..149REPLYView 3 replies
VZq3 months agoThis song is still super relevant today. Unfortunately. Still boppin’ tho8REPLY
Gale Leitch3 years agoFilmed in Vancouver, BC, in 1978, at the end of their tour.76REPLYView 18 replies
gordeaux d3 years agoDemonstrating once and for all time that anger is a valid emotion.21REPLYView 7 replies
Kelly3 weeks agoTaylor Momsen brought me here. Her cover is amazing. And so is this song ?8REPLY
