| West Valley, Mormon family with seven hungry mouths to feed
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| And that’s how she learned to raise my sister and me
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| And voted Nixon in the seventies
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| And it would all work out, it would all work out
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| My mother was the youngest child
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| No college education, wasn’t ever her style
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| But she knew just how to make a quarterback smile
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| And it would all work out, it’ll all work out
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| My father loved us right, stayed up at night
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| Tryin' to keep the checkbook tighter
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| Than a duck’s ass going down a waterslide
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| Oh, I know he tried
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| Became a victim of the mortgage spikes
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| Collections calling every night since 1999
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| In 10 more years, you’ll think the interest rates’ll decline
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| It’ll all work out, it’ll all work out, it’ll all work out
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| He’d say, «go to college, get your knowledge straightened out»
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| With inherit desperation in the way it sounded
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| Like he’d bet on it and now it seemed his odds were down
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| Well, thank you, Dad, I love you, and I hope you’re proud
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| And I’m sorry that I didn’t take the road you laid down
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| But it’ll all work out, it’ll all work out, it’ll all work out
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| Is that your letter in the middle of the pile?
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| I must have been out of town for quite a little while
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| The stitches in your arm must have healed by now
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| Fuck that plumber if your heat is still out
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| And don’t be scared, I know you can still throw down
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| It’ll all work out, it’ll all work out
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| Now I don’t feel a speck of hate
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| Really, no, I’m trying to get my story straight
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| When you called me from the car when you were on your way
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| With your friend from San Francisco that you told me was gay
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| And I guess he was a closet straight
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| Get it all out now and it’ll all work out
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| It’ll all work out
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| It’ll all, it’ll all, it’ll all, it’ll all work out, work out now |