
I recently heard from three people (unbeknownst to each other) who told me they really like my song The Way Things Go from my album Lounge Act In Heaven, and could I provide them with the lyrics?
Happily I could. Their interest inspired me to listen to the song for the first time in quite a while. What a neato song!
Here are the lyrics followed by links to the recording of the song should you want to listen as you read the lyrics
The Way Things Go
Ricky and Kathy were lovers in high school
Then Ricky went away to war
Kathy fell in love with a used car salesman
Five kids by 24
Ricky came back from Afghanistan
He didn’t know how to be,
So he wandered down to Hollywood
Landed in a situation comedy
I’m not making this up
Chorus: That’s the way things go
The way things start is never how they finish
I thought you’d like to know
That’s the way things go
Now Ricky played the part of Larry Dorfman
A guy with a checkered past
Larry’s wife Camille a stewardess,
teenagers Lisa and Chaz
And as long as he was Larry Dorfman
Ricky knew how to be
But away from the set of the sit-com
He was all at sea
This is all completely true
Chorus
Well the show ran for seven seasons
And Ricky became a big star
Mansion in Malibu, New York penthouse
Million-dollar car
Then they made him a super hero
in a billion-dollar flick
He fell madly in love with his co-star Vicky
Otherwise known as Vick
This is all completely true
Chorus
Now Vicky as it happened was a mystical master
with a bent for Psychology
And she knew from the minute she met him
Ricky didn’t know how to be
But she loved the size and the color of his aura,
loved the way they clicked in the sack
So she made it her life’s work to heal him, yeah
To bring old Ricky back
This is all the truth
Chorus
Now the irony of Vicky healing Ricky
Was that once Ricky knew how to be
He quit making movies and bought a farm
And started planting trees
He and Vicky had a baby named Venus,
They adopted another three
Tino, Gina, and Esmeralda
And they all learned how to be
from their mom and dad,
some pretty good ways, such as
Be loving and kind to each other,
share what you have to spend,
make love not war, use solar power,
treat the earth as your mother and friend.
Yeah that’s the way to go. Yeah that’s the way to go.
Start things right, you’ll have a good finish,
At least I hope that’s so
But you never know
Links to The Way Things Go on YouTube and Spotify and Pandora.
You can also stream the song on Apple, Amazon, etc.
Happy Holidays!
