That’s Just The Way It Is (Remastered)

Verse 1 Manager vanished—poof, he’s gone Guess leadership’s a magic trick We’re drowning in the lunch rush wave But he’s on some mysterious break again, quick Tickets piling, slicer screaming Customers tapping on the glass But if you ask him where he’s been? “Office stuff”… as he walks past Pre-Chorus You got a problem? Don’t insist He’ll shrug and say… Chorus “That’s just the way it is” Not his rule, not his call Funny how the power disappears When it’s time to fix it all But if we breathe a little wrong Or the slicer isn’t clean Suddenly he’s management With a lecture in between So here’s the company philosophy Straight from the master plan Responsibility is optional If you’re the management man ⸻ Verse 2 Cheese guy strolls in twenty late Like time’s just a polite suggestion Still gets forty hours every week Guess favoritism passed inspection Meanwhile hours on the schedule Getting shaved down with a pen But somehow he’s still clocking overtime Yeah that math ain’t mathin’, friend Pre-Chorus Bring suggestions, raise your hand Watch them die before they land Chorus “That’s just the way it is” That’s the speech he likes to give Funny how solutions vanish Every time the workers live Got an idea? Save your breath It won’t make it past the fan Because the policy of this department Is ignoring every plan ⸻ Bridge Oh you disagree? Careful now— You might get sent upstairs Yeah… The mysterious office Where apparently All problems get solved By… intimidation ⸻ Final Chorus “That’s just the way it is” Echoing through the deli air Funny how the rules exist But the leadership’s not there So we run the whole department While he disappears again Guess the real management team Is the ones behind the counter then