Skip to content
Lyric
Dive
Public playlists
My playlists
Search
Sign in
The Threepenny Opera: The World Is Mean
Jo Sullivan, Martin Wolfson & Charlotte Rae
Popularity ยท Low
+
๐ฌ๐ง English ยท Original
0
0
YouTube
Searching YouTube...
Lyrics
Original
Translation
Bilingual
All I'm asking isn't much
Once, instead of all this sadness
From a man, a little gladness
Is that asking very much?
Is that asking such a much?
One right is guaranteed to everybody
To call his short, unhappy life his own
To take a bit of pleasure with the shoddy
And when he asks for bread to eat, not get a stone
This human right belongs to everybody
But, sad to say, it never yet has happened
That things should go the way they ought to go
Who wouldn't want a little decent treatment?
It seems that circumstance won't have it so
I would gladly give to you
Anything your heart desired
Oh, I swear I'd be inspired
It would give me pleasure too
It would give me pleasure too
We crave to be more kindly than we are
Give gladly to the poor because it's right
If all are kind, his kingdom isn't far
Who wouldn't wish to bask beneath his light?
We crave to be more kindly than we are
But, sad to say, the chances happen never
You have to reach up high, and man is low
We'd all be glad to live in peace forever
It seems that circumstance won't have it so
Oh, sad to say, he tells the truth
The world is mean, and man uncouth
Of course I'm telling you the truth
The world is mean, and man uncouth
To be aglow instead of low
But you know circumstance won't have it so
To be aglow instead of low
But you know circumstance won't have it so
And nothing much will help a lot
And you can toss it in the pot
The world is mean, and man uncouth
And, sad to say, I tell the truth
It always happens that way
It always happens that way
And nothing much will help a lot
And you can toss it in the pot
ย