The Way It Goes Lyrics

When you're six you plant seeds in the backyard at home

Momma says water them sit back and watch them grow

It takes a little time but they'll start popping up in rows

That's just the way it goes

You spend a million miles in that back seat of your dad's Ford

First you're too young then you're shotgun and before you know

You turn sixteen get the keys and go off on your own

That's just the way it goes

Then somewhere along that line you'll fall harder

Than you've fallen in your whole life

You'll start wondering 'bout

Rings for sale and wedding bells

Moving in getting settled down

Girl laying next to you right now

I'm looking down that road and I hope

That's just the way it goes

One day you'll trade that truck in for something that's way safer

And that one bedroom apartment for a house you'll pay off later

Start acting like your daddy when you show your boy the ropes

That's just the way it goes mmm

Then somewhere along that line you'll fall harder

Than you've fallen in your whole life

You'll start wondering 'bout

Babies you'll be raising up

And messy rooms and Tonka trucks

Girl laying next to you right now

I'm looking down that road and I hope

That's just the way it goes

'Cause hairs get gray and steps get slow

Kids grow up and have a few of their own

But you still got that smile and that same hand to hold

And together you grow old

That's just the way it goes

When somewhere along that line you fall harder

Than you've fallen in your whole life

You start wondering how

80 years went by so fast

And how you're just lucky to have

A girl like her that's always felt like home

All the way down that road yeah I hope

That's just the way it goes

That's just the way it goes

Yeah I hope

That's just the way it goes