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Key: Bb Intro: G Verse 1: G C G The first thing you learn is grieving and loss C G 'Cause you can't return to the safe place you lost Am7 G From your mother's womb into the chaos of the cold hospital room C G C G When you're a child, they say, "Follow the rules," C G And they send you to church and they drop you at school Am7 G And your little heart breaks as you're watching them both drive away
Chorus: C G/B Am7 And I cried on the side of the curb C G/B Am7 Yeah, the panic set in, and it hurt C Em Am7 Oh, but that's just the way that it works G The way of the world Verse 2: C G C G As you're growing up, you get faced with the truth C G That your parents are people and messed up like you Am7 G And the child inside them is broken and still hurten too G G C G You get to the end when your time's almost done C G With your skin paper-thin and your bones giving up Am7 G From the very beginning, you've been going against the wind Out-Chorus: C G/B Am7 And your body goes back to the earth C G/B Am7 And your soul to the whole universe C Em7 Am7 God, I hope that's the way that it works G The way of the world C G/B Am7 From the very first moment it hurts C G/B Am7 'Til the day that you're laid in the dirt C Em Am7 Yeah, but that's just the way that it works G The way of the world C G/B Am7 The way of the world, ooh C G/B Am7 'Til the day that you're laid in the dirt C Em Am7 Yeah, but that's just the way that it works G The way of the world (Mm-mm, mm-mm)
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