The Way We Are - The Flatlanders

Every night you and I catch a wandering eye

We stand out like trees in cotton rows

It ain’t a look, it ain’t a style we might throw

Down after a while

It’s the way we are and that’s the way it goes

The way we are, the way we are

You might think we fell right off the same bright star, the way we are

Never had a dream so good to me so far

It don’t leave nothing much to say, the way we are

I’d lost my mind riding on the 99

When you found me singing sad and low

And at the end of the track, you took my hand

And led me back

To the happy song I’d left so long ago

It might be, I might say, we weren’t born to be this way

There’s a million ways they say and this I see

But it occurred to me last night, when I saw you standing in the moonlight

If I die this way that’ll be okay with me

The way we are, the way we are

You might think we fell right off the same bright star, the way we are

Never had a dream so good to me so far

I never thought I would meet someone who

Would share a fate like ours

It don’t leave nothing much to say the way we are