The Way It Is(Live at the Jazz House, Copenhagen, Denmark - September 2004) - Bruce Hornsby

作词：B.R. Hornsby

作曲：B.R. Hornsby

Standing in line marking time

Waiting for the welfare dime

Cause they can't buy a job

The man in the 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

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

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 anothers mind

When all it sees at 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

But don't you believe them