The Way It Is-Graham Blvd

[ti:The Way It Is] [ar:Graham Blvd.] [al:Top of the Charts 1986] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Way It Is - Graham Blvd. [00:49.91]Standing in line marking time [00:51.77]Waiting for the welfare dime [00:54.40] [00:55.05]'Cause they can't buy a job [00:57.55] [00:58.34]The man in the silk suit hurries by [01:00.18]As he catches the poor ladies' eyes [01:03.69]Just for fun he says, "Get a job" [01:06.88] [01:09.64]That's just the way it is [01:11.49] [01:13.73]Some things will never change [01:15.78] [01:18.10]That's just the way it is [01:19.84] [01:22.42]Ah but don't you believe them [01:25.45] [01:32.53]Said, hey little boy you [01:33.74]Can't go where the others go [01:36.04] [01:37.82]'Cause you don't look like they do [01:39.92] [01:41.13]Said, hey old man how can you stand [01:43.25]To think that way, [01:44.38] [01:46.50]Did you really think about it [01:47.59]Before you made the rules? [01:49.61] [01:52.48]He said, "Son, that's just the way it is [01:54.42] [01:56.62]Some things will never change [01:58.79] [02:01.10]That's just the way it is [02:02.79] [02:05.31]Ah but don't you believe them" [02:08.61] [03:05.68]That's just the way it is [03:07.17]Well they passed a law in '64 [03:09.01]To give those who ain't got a little more [03:11.42] [03:12.40]But it only goes so far [03:14.71] [03:15.64]Because the law [03:16.34]Don't change another's mind [03:17.43]When all it sees at the hiring time [03:20.39] [03:21.04]Is the line on the color bar [03:24.28] [03:27.50]That's just the way it is [03:29.13] [03:31.85]Some things will never change [03:34.14] [03:36.30]That's just the way it is [03:38.09] [03:39.76]That's just the way it is, [03:41.35]It is, it is, it is