The Big Idea Lyrics

What the hell's the big idea? Nothing's really bad, brother

Nothing's really that good either, it's all in your attitude

So try out that fine platitude

Things work out in the end, brother

I could say I love you til I mean it, til you mean it too

And I believe in paradoxes floating through the air

Something awful happens one minute

Something beautiful the next

Would you say yes to the crackling of darkness that you see?

Pretty soon the sun is shining out and onto everything

It's fine by you, fine by me

Nothing's ever really bad you see

And nothing's really that good either

There is never any better place to be

What the hell's the big idea?

People often go swimming

In their favorite notion or an ocean or a lake

Even babies they know how to swim if given proper help

Believe me, I'm afraid of drowning too, so please just hear me out

It's fine by you, fine by me

Nothing's ever really bad you see

And nothing's really that good either

There is never any better place to be

I once met a bad, bad person

He was so unkind to me

I wrote two years of songs about him

It just happened naturally

I then realized there is no bad, just people learning many things

At many different paces, some resist and some learn easily

It's fine by you, fine by me

Nothing's ever really bad you see

And nothing's really that good either

There is never any better place to be