Harry Nilsson Think About Your Troubles (Alternate Take) lyrics

Sit beside the breakfast table
Think about your troubles
Pour yourself a cup of tea
And think about the bubbles
You can take your teardrops
And drop them in a teacup
Take them down to the riverside
And throw them over the side

To be swept up by a current
Then taken to the ocean
To be eaten by some fishes
Who were eaten by some fishes
And swallowed by a whale
Who grew so old, he decomposed

He died and left his body
To the bottom of the ocean

Now everybody knows
When a body decomposes

The basic elements
Are given back to the ocean
And the sea does what it oughta
And soon there's salty water
Not too good for drinking

'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop
So they run it through a filter
And it comes out from a faucet
And is poured into a teapot
Which is just about to bubble
Now think about your trouble