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Artist: Bruce Hornsby
Canonical path: /bruce-hornsby/the-way-it-is
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The Way It Is
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The Way It Is
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Standing in line marking time
Waiting for the welfare dime
Cause they can't buy a job
A man in a silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes
Just for fun he says: Get a job
That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them
They say: Hey little boy you can't go
Where the others go
'Cause you don't look like they do
Said hey old man how can you stand
To think that way
Did you really think about it
Before you made the rules
He said: Son
That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them
Well they passed a law in '64
To give those who ain't got a little more
But it only goes so far
Because the law don't change in another's mind
When all it sees is the hiring time
Is the line on the color bar
That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is, it is, it is, it is
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Bruce Hornsby performs "The Way It Is", and this lyric page sits inside the Bruce Hornsby catalog on LyroVerse.
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