Think about your troubles...

Sit beside the breakfast table
Think about your troubles
Pour yourself a cup of tea
And think about the bubbles
You could 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
And 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
That when a body decomposes
The basic elements
Are given back to the ocean
And the sea does what it ought'a
And soon there's salty water
(Not too good for drinking)
'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop
(So we run it through a filter)
And it comes out from the faucet
(And pours into a teapot)
Which is just about to bubble
Now
Think about your troubles

Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson was named as the Beatles' favorite American artist when he was still a relative unknown, you’ve heard his songs. He had hits and wrote hits for others. Songs like “One”, “Everybody’s Talking” and “You Put the Lime in the Coconut”, but I want to talk about this song which has a really nice message.

One of Harry Nilsson's more evocative songs, "Think About Your Troubles" was one of the "fantasy" sections of the animated feature The Point. The song, despite being perfect in the film, works quite well on its own. Essentially, it's an illustration of the flow of ecology, using the example of water flowing from a faucet, to the boiling teapot, the environment of fish in the ocean, and on and on. There's almost a sad, mournful quality, yet it can't help but make you feel good by song's end -- a trick that Nilsson always did well.

"Think About Your Troubles" has a marvelous intricate Zen-like lyric.