The Way it Goes Lyrics

I don't know, where you'd go, for ten years

I agree, there's more to see, than what you'd find here

But was it really that bad, having me as a dad

I don't- I don't know, where you'd go, for ten years

Today, marks the day, you've been gone for ten years

You can see, on your phone, what you've done to me

Check your voicemail box, you've got ten years of calls

I just… all I've done is wait for ten years

You know I tried to look for you

I drove for weeks if I recall

Did what any good man would ever do

Cried when I came home because I saw

Three… missed… calls

Three… missed… calls

You know I've hardly left the house since I missed a call

Living on retirement, I hardly- leave the house at all

I hardly leave the room- I'll never miss a thing

I've seen a watched pot boil but never does a watched phone ring

Life is so short

And you've been delayed

The ball's in your court

It's been for a decade

And I'm feeling boxed in

I'm leaving a message

I have no other options

All I can do is stay right here

Hoping that you're waiting for a moment to call me

Ten years ago you would never

Never catch me begging for a thing- well you caught me

I guess that's just the way it goes

The way it goes

The way it goes

The way it goes

I hear knocks on the door that I made for you

Steel lock, steel door, what I had to do

So you'd never be scared, of the things out there

I hear knocks, on the door, guess who it is

Not you

Not you

When I can't walk straight and my vision starts to wobble

Hoping that I'll find you at the bottom of a bottle

It's too easy

A little bit to soothe the soul

But sometimes I just lose control

I know I lose my temper, and I know that you remember

I blew up at you the night you went away

I shut the door but it was just too late

At least that's what I remember about that night

I can't remember much of anything past the fight

Life is so short

And you've been delayed

The ball's in your court

It's been for a decade

I'm feeling boxed in

I'm leaving a message

I have no other options

Hoping that you're waiting for a moment to call me

Ten years ago you would never

Never catch me begging for a thing- well you caught me

I guess that's just the way it goes

Hoping that you're waiting for a moment to call me

A moment that feels like forever

Evermore I'm sitting, by a phone with a memory

But I guess that's just the way it goes

The way it goes

The way it goes

The way it goes

The way I used to

Fall to the door

And id sprawl on the floor

And I'd crawl to the drugstore

When I always need more

Cuz I can't suppress it

Need antidepressants

But they never work

So I drank, and I drank

And the voice in my head told me to

Never leave the house as I wait for you

So for ten years now

Living life so slow

While my memory fades

But I guess that's just the way it goes