bo burnham - sad

This first song is called
A world on fire
Ahhhh! Ahhhh!
This next song is a little bit longer than that one
And, um
It's about all the sad stuff I see in the world
I see a lot of sad stuff and it's called sad
Get on my level, Maddison
Picture a depressed onion cutting itself
I met a homeless man named Rich
(He wasn't...)
Isn't that terrible?
I saw a flyer for a lost dog and the dog didn't have any legs
I saw a diabetic kid trick or treating
I saw a giraffe who had a short neck
That was sad, or a deer
I saw an old man get hit by a train
He didn't see it in the pouring rain
He didn't hear me shout, "Look out for the train!"
'Cause I didn't say anything
I just thought to myself, "Oh this is gonna be sad"
And it was, I'm a genius
I saw a man with only one eye in a 3D movie
I saw a little boy drop his ice cream cone, directly on his mother's corpse
I saw a kitten stuck in a tree, then the kitten jumped off and he hung itself
I saw a boy who had red hair
I went to a store looking for something to buy
But they only sold paintings of the same sad guy
No, wait... this store sells mirrors
See what I did there?
Let's rock
No
The world's so sad, Maddison
Pain, war, genocide, racism, sexism
But I gotta remember there's good things about it too
Like the fact that none of that's happening to me, score!
Still though it's hard not to be sad about it
How do y'all do it?
I've been telling you guys, terribly sad things this whole song
You haven't been sad at all
You've been happy, no, You've been laughing
That's it, laughter, it's the key to everything
It's the way to solve all the sadness in the world
I mean, not for the people that are actually sad
But for the people like us, that gotta f*cking deal with 'em all the time
Being a comedian isn't being an insensitive prick
Capitalizing on the most animalistic impulses of the public, it's being a hero!
The world isn't sad
The world's funny! I get it now I'm a sociopath!
I saw an old man slip and fall, what a f*cking idiot
I saw a woman at her daughter's funeral... ha ha ha! Classic comedy
Everything that once was sad is somehow funny now
The Holocaust and 9-11
That shit's funny 24-7
'Cause tragedy will be exclusively joked about
Because my empathy is bumming me out
Goodbye, sadness
Hello, jokes

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Bo Burnham is an American comedian, singer-songwriter, musician, actor, poet, and Internet celebrity. Writing comedic and satirical songs with a politically incorrect slant, he achieved fame when his YouTube videos took off and received more than 70 million views by October 2010.

Currently, he has over 200 million views on his YouTube channel.

As of now, Bo has released 5 albums: Bo Fo Sho, Bo Burnham, Words Words Words, what., and Make Happy.

Bo Fo Sho was Burnham’s debut EP. The six-track comedy album was released on June 17, 2008 by Comedy Central Records, and charted well across the Billboard charts.

In a June 2008 interview with Wired Magazine, Burnham described himself as:

still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them

and that if Bo Fo Sho were anything else,

it would lose the whole DIY effect of how I started out.

Burnham co-created, co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in a TV series called Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous in 2013 for MTV, although it was cancelled after 12 episodes, running from May 2, 2013 to June 29, 2013.

His first book, Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone, was first published on October 1, 2013, and is a collection of comedically absurd poetry and musings.

Another book, currently referred to as Untitled Burnham 1 of 1, is thought to be an autobiography with approximately 280 pages, which was set to be released September 2017, although no such book has been published.

His film Eighth Grade was released on July 13, 2018 to widespread critical acclaim and currently holds a 98% Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes.