[intro] [guitars smoky] [-45 hz] [-240] [spoken word] this one’s called but I didn’t know it then. [crowd] […] [verse 1] It’s the money, it’s family, It’s love before ambition, It’s the thing supposedly, Makes the world go round, But yuh know what I found, What it is really. It’s the system. [guitars trade brief riffs] [verse 2] Thirty some odd years ago I was what I’d now call young, Singin on the weekends, More or less for fun, But yeah gett’n laid ‘n’ gett’n paid, Fast track to gett’n done, [prechorus] Didn’t recognize Didn’t know, this was how My Life Would go (would go) [chorus] [doubletrack vocals] I didn’t know it then, But freedom’s what that was, Not a care in the world, Doin what I loved. the music the life the endless sweaty nights, Back when eyes a kid, I think damn, The livin that I did. But I didn’t know it then. [solos] [verse 3] Woke up this mornin, everything hurt, Rolled out of bed, put on my pants ‘n’ shirt, Chased a couple aspirin witta five hour energy, The downhill slide, what my days have come tuh be, [prechorus 2] Hindsight they say True, that’s the way, It goes… [chorus] [doubletrack vocals] I didn’t know it then, But freedom’s what that was, Not a care in the world, Doin what I loved. the music the life the endless sweaty nights, Back when eyes a kid, I think damn, The livin that I did. But I didn’t know it then. (Didn’t know it then) That’s the way. It goes (it goes)((it goes)) [drum Tom’s roll] [guitars trade solo] [verse 4] Nuther day Nuther dime, I’m Just passing time, Tryin’ to get those obligations done, No it’s Not a lot of fun, But that’s the way, yeah that’s the way it goes, (The way it goes) [chorus] [doubletrack vocals] I didn’t know it then, But freedom’s what that was, Not a care in the world, Doin what I loved. the music the life the endless sweaty nights, Back when eyes a kid, I think damn, The livin that I did. But I didn’t know it then. (Didn’t know it then) [outro] Yeah that’s the way it GOES!! [fade out] That’s the way it went, when I was a kid
