The Way

Flat down and ear to the ground But I never heard her make a sound Side door what you coming in for She said nothing at all Swinging trees and the angry sees Never stirred up an emotion in me Wind hauls and the rain that falls Are just two of the three That's just the way that life can be Counting down the time Three, six and nine Slow numbers gonna drag me down I'm dead bored with my eyes on the floor Just a hangin' around Set forth never changing course Down a line between heaven and hell Shut down and shaken out Nearly dead for a spell But anyway it's just as well Who's to say which way the storm goes Maybe blow out to the sea Who's to say for whom the bell tolls Maybe for me Thinking about the love and the pain and shame Realizing that they're all the same I'll stuff it in a sack gonna send it back To from which they came Wrong and the right gonna fight the fight Ever since Abel and Cain You're born you die Then all the rest is why They will remember your name That's the way you play the game