Remember times back on the train

Counting roofs and taking names

Knew every line to "Stand By Me"

A love so blind, we couldn't see

Loved you more than you loved me

If I had known then what I know

Certain places we can't go

But the demons in my mind

Came to tease me one last time

Doesn't matter who you know

I'm thirty-five, and I'm losing my mind

'Cause I feel the same

Oh, I'm caught in a hurricane

Someone show me some grace

I had a plan

Saw it played out up on a big movie screen

The ending was you and me

That film never played

But ain't that the way

I memorized every wall

Missing notes, unanswered calls

It's funny how some people change

Mostly we just stay the same

Same old dreams, we've had them all

'Cause inside everyone is young

They're counting stars and being dumb

The time that graced me with its hand

Shook it once, and not again

I'll love you right until the end

I'm forty-five, and I'm keeping in line

Like you always say

Oh, "The future's a day away"

But mine came wrapped up in lace

Had I known If I'd picked up the phone

It could be erased

Oh, I thank God in a million ways

For showing me grace

But ain't that way

(Ain't that the way)

Yeah!

(That it goes)

That it goes

(Like a bird in your hand)

Like a bird in your hand

(Ain't that the way)

Ain't that the way

(You can try)

You can try

(But you won't understand)

But you won't understand

(Ain't that the way)

Ain't that the way

(That it goes)

Oh, oh!

(Like a bird on the wind)

Like a bird on the wind

(Ain't that the way)

Ain't that the way

Ain't that the way

But ain't that the way

(Ain't that the way)

(Ain't that)

(That it goes)

Ain't that the way

(Like a bird in your hand)

Ain't that the way

(You can try)

That the way

(But you won't understand)

Ain't that the way

(That it goes)

That the way

(Like a bird on the wind)

(Ain't that the way)

Ain't that the way

Ain't that the way

Ain't that the way