When All The Bad Things In Your Life Turn To Worth It Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

Those resourceful romeos have all revealed 

You're the juliet who couldn't be genteel 

All the parents looked askance with much displeasure 

As you dared to dance off with their little treasures 

And the teachers who preached anguish and abstention 

Treated you with distant condescension 

Patronised your youthful indignation 

With their idiotic indoctrination 

Then gave you bad grades just for being clever 

And you're qualified to be in debt for ever 

And you'll wonder what you did 

And you'll think you don't deserve it 

When the bad things, bad things 

When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it 

All the candidates who claim to know your fears 

Shit silence like it's verbal diarrhoea 

Imply that your suggestions are so tired 

Like they aspired to something higher 

They gonna sack you when you give them the wrong answers 

Or for failing to respond to his advances 

And you're faced with a senator's enquiry 

Sequestering your private life in diaries 

Those wretched romeos now politicians 

Telling all the truth but with omissions 

And you'll think that you've been blessed 

And you thought that you were cursed 

When all the bad things, bad things 

When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it 

The pages fly, the calendar gets thinner 

Springs turns into summer into winter 

Preachers will illuminate their candles 

On romeos with trousers round their ankles 

The politicians surrender to indictment 

The teachers sacked for lack of excitement 

But these are not the reasons you endure 

Revenge could never please a heart so pure 

You thought your reward would be in heaven 

Or a day job at the 7-11 

While everyone around you ran for cover 

You found a secret, now your name is love 

And you'll wonder what you did 

And you'll think you don't deserve it 

When all the bad things, bad things 

When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it 

When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it