Why Bother? (spoken Word)
Bette Midler

Oh, human history is a sordid affair.

Often I say to myself,

Oh this is horrible,

man's inhumanity to man.

It's just awful, it's...

Oh, why bother?

Why bother, why bother, why bother?


I try to be rosy,

I try to be upbeat.

Life is real, life is earnest,

sing Polly wolly doodle all day.

I try to look on the bright side of things and yet,

when confronted with the truth,

I have to say,

Why bother?


Maybe I'll get a lift.

Why bother?

Maybe I'll get a job.

Why bother?

Maybe I'll get a new car.

Why bother?

Maybe I'll empty an ashtray.

Why bother?


It's so hard to keep your ears clean.

Why bother?


There are millions of wonderful piano players in the world.

Listen to the chump I got.

Why bother?


You know, modern painting is supposed to be the panacea for all the ills of modern life,

and yet everyone still buys the painting that matches the couch.

Why bother?


Do you know that the only museum in Las Vegas is run by Liberace?

Why bother?


France -- the country that gave us Renoir, Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin -- has hailed Jerry Lewis as a genius...

Why bother?


Calvin Klein wears his own jeans,


his own underwear,

his own cologne.

I still wouldn't fuck him.

I said Calvin, why bother?


I have a star named after me on Hollywood Boulevard.

It's under a fire hydrant.

Why bother?


I got a new haircut.

I have to put a lotta mousse on it to make it look like anything.

I got a terrible case of dandruff.

My doctor said I was suffering from mousse abuse.

Why bother?


Dr Ruth...

Why bother?


There are 88 keys on that piano.

That motherfucker knows five.

Why bother?


Halley's Comet comes once every 76 years.

So do I.

Why bother?


I fasted for 25 days.

I took a high colonic every day.

I lost 3 pounds.

My Enemist said, Why bother?


You ever read the LA Weekly?

You ever notice how many ads for high colonics they have?

Is this town that full of shit?

Why bother?


Is this what T.S. Eliot meant by

the hollow men,

the stuffed men,

or did he only mean...

Why bother?


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  "Otto Titsling"   "Together, Wherever we go"   A dream is a wish your heart makes   A Whiter Shade Of Pale   A: Optimistic Voices B: Lullaby Of Broadway   A: Uptown B: Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)...   Alabama Song   All I Need Is the Girl   All I need to know   All of a sudden   Alright, Okay, You Win   Am I Blue   As dreams go by   Baby it's cold outside   Baby It's You   Baby It's Cold Outside   Baby June and Her Newsboys   Baby Mine   Baby, It's Cold Outside"(feat. James Caan   Backstage   Bang your Dead!   Be My Baby   Beast of burden   Bed of roses   Bei Mir Bist Du Schon   Bei Mir Bist Du Schu00f6n   Big noise from Winnetka   Big Noise From Winnetka - Divine Madness Version   Big Socks   Big Spender   Big Spender [From Sweet Charity]   Billy - a - Dick   Billy-a-Dick   Birds   Bless You Child   Blueberry Pie   Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy   Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy [Single Version]   Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Single   bottomless   Boxing   Breaking up somebody's home   Breaking Up Somebody's Home   Buckets Of Rain   Buckets of Rain (With Bob Dylan)   Chapel of Love   Chapel of Love/Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy   Chattanooga Choo Choo   Color Of Roses   Come And Get These Memories   Come back Jimmy Dean   Come On-A My House   Come Rain or Come Shine   Come rain or shine   Comic Relief   Concert Monologue   Cool Yule   Coping   Coping (spoken Word)   Cowgirl's Dream   Cowgirl's Dream   Cradle Days   Dainty June And Her Farmboys   Daybreak (Storybook Children)   Daytime Hustler   Delta Dawn   Do You Wanna Dance   Do you wanna dance?   Do You Want To Dance   Do You Want to Dance?   Dreamland   Drinkin' Again   Drinking Again   E Street Shuffle   E Street Shuffle/Summer (The First Time)/Leader of...   E Street Shuffle\/summer (the First Time)\/leader ...   Empty Bed Blues   Every Road Leads Back To You   Every Road Leads To You   Everything's Coming Up Roses   Everythings coming up Roses   Fat as I am!   Favorite waste of time   Fever   Finale: Up The Ladder To The Roof\/boogie Woogie B...   Fire Down below   Firends   Fit As I Am   Folks Who Live On The Hill   For all we know   Fried Eggs   Fried Eggs(spoken word)/Hello in there   Friends   Friends - Alternate   Friends - Oh My MY!   Friends -alternate   Friends (Side 2, Cut 1)   Friends (Side 2, Cut 6)   From a Distance   From A Distance (Christmas Version)   From A Distince   Gift of Love   Give Him A Great Big Kiss   God Give Me Strength   God Give Me Strength [Album Version]   God Help The Outcasts   Hallelujah   Hang on in there Baby   Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe   Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas   Have Yourself A Merry Little Chrsitmas   He Needs Me   He Was Too Good To Me / Since You Stayed Here   He was too good to me/Since you stayed here   He Was Too Good To Me\/since You Stayed Here   He's A Tramp   He's Sure The Boy I Love   He's A Tramp   Heart over head   Heaven   Hello In There   Hey There   Higher & Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)   Higher & Higher (your Love Keeps Lifting Me)   Higher and Higher   Higher And Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)   Homecoming Monologue   How Love Moves   Hurricane   Hurry on Down   I believe in you   I Don't Want The Night To End   I Don't Want The Night To End   I know this town   I Know You By Heart   I Love Being Here With You   I Love You   I never talk to strangers   I Put A Spell On You   I remember you   I Remember You / Dixie's Dream"(feat. James Cann   I remember you/ Dixie's dream   I Remember You/ Dixie's Dream   I Remember You/Dixie's Dream   I Remember You\/dixie's Dream   I Shall be released   I sold my heart to the junkman   I think it's going to rain today   I Think It's Going To Rain Today   I'll Be Home For Christmas   I'm A Woman   I'm Beautiful   I'm Beautiful [Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix...   I'm Hip   I'm singing Broadway   I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm   I've Got My Love To Keep You Warm   I've still got my health   I've Still Got My Health [From Beaches]   I'll Be Home For Christmas   I'm A Woman   I'm Beautiful   I'm Hip   I'm Singing Broadway   I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm   I've Still Got My Health   If Momma Was Married   In my life   In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening   In the mood   In These Shoes   In These Shoes?   In this life   Intermission: You're Moving out Today   Is it love   Is That All There Is?   It's the Girl   It's too Late   It's Too Late   Just My Imagination   Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)   Just My Imagination Running Away   Keep on rockin'   Keep On Rockin'   La Vie en Rose   Laughing Matters   Leader of the pack   Let It Snow! 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I love you   P.si Love You   Paradise   Perfect Isn't Easy   Perfect Isn't Easy   Rain   Ready To Begin Again   Red   Rose   Rose's Turn   Rose's Turn   Say Goodbye to Hollywood   Shining Star   Shiver Me Timbers   Shiver Me Timbers / Samedi Et Vendredi   Shiver Me Timbers/Samedi Et Vendredi   Shiver Me Timbers\/samedi Et Venderedi   Shiver Me Timbers\/Samedi Et Vendredi   Since You Stayed Here   Sisters   Sisters (White Christmas)   Skylark   Small World   Small World"(feat. 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Up!   Uptown / Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby) / D...   Uptown/Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)/Da Do...   Uptown/Don't say nothing bad about my baby/ - Doo ...   Uptown/Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby/Doo Run...   Uptown/don’t Say Nothing Bad About My Baby/ - Do...   Uptown\/don't Say Nothin' Bad (about My Baby)\/doo...   Vickie and Mr. Valves   Vickie Eydie   Viva Las Vegas   Waterfalls   What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?   What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?   When a Man loves a woman   When a Man Loves a Woman [From the Rose]   When Your Life Was Low   When Your Love Was Low   White Christmas   White Christmas (White Christmas)   White Christmas [From White Christmas]   Whose Side Are You On   Whose Side are you on?   Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow   Wind Beneath My Wings   Wind Beneath My Wings [From Beaches]   Winter Wonderland   Winter Wonderland \/ Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let...   Yellow beach Umbrella   You can't always get what you want   You Can't Always Get What You Want\/i Shall Be Rel...   You Can't Hurry Love   You Can't Always Get What You Want   You don't know me   You Don't Own Me   You Don't Own Me   You Gotta Get a Gimmick   You'll never get away from me   You'll Never Get Away From Me"(feat. Peter Reigert   You'll Never Know   You're moving out today   Your love keeps liftin me higher

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