So It Goes

She shakes her tired head Her children like a fire And so it goes Just one more time It's the last one we swear Then we'll be good And so it goes (Everybody is something somehow Everywhere someone is nothing at all Everyone is somewhere they don't belong) When we're almost gone We will see There was nothing just for us And we were wrong If we were gods among the earth You know we would've stopped this long ago Her heart grows still And yet the wars continue And so it goes Make promises You know you don't believe Guide us to disappearance And so it goes (Everybody is something somehow Everywhere someone is nothing at all Everything is somebody somehow Everyone is somewhere they don't belong) When we're almost gone We will see There was nothing just for us And we were wrong If we were gods among the earth You know we would've stopped this long ago