Way Of The World

The first thing you learn

Is grieving and loss

'Cause you can't return

To the safe place you lost

From your mother's womb

Into the chaos of a cold hospital room

When you're a child

They say follow the rules

And they send you to church

And they drop you at school

And your little heart breaks

As you're watching them both drive away

And I cried on the side of the curb

Yeah, the panic set in, and it hurt

Oh, but that's just the way that it works

The way of the world

As you're growing up

You get faced with the truth

That your parents are people

And messed up like you

And the child inside them

Is broken and still hurting too

You get to the end

When your time's almost done

With your skin paper thin

And your bones giving up

From the very beginning

You've been going against the wind

And your body goes back to the Earth

And your soul to the whole universe

God, I hope that's the way that it works

The way of the world

From the very first moment it hurts

Till the day that you're laid in the dirt

Yeah, but that's just the way that it works

The way of the world

The way of the world

Mmm

Till the day that you're laid in the dirt

Yeah, but that's just the way it works

The way of the world

Mmm

Mmm