That´s the Way It Goes

Over and over and over again

I kept telling myself

I'd never wander too far from the melody

I keep it simple and mellow

Everybody knows that I'm an easygoing fella

Yet when I met her

I didn't need a shove

Next thing I knew it was love

She hooked me

She had me like a puppet on a string

I couldn't do a thing

Now it's over

No more rolling in the clover

I'm lost and I'm looking for love

I was halfway to paradise yesterday

Away in my balloon

But I drifted off course on the Milky Way

And now I'll have to change my tune

If I should ever get another chance to start again

There's only one thing that I know for sure

I'll be back for more

Take love in my stride

Be on a high into nothing

There's no other way to go

There I go, there I go

I can't understand why I'm feeling so blue

I thought that the melody mellowed you too

I took a chance with our romance

And jettisoned all my cares and woes

The way that you held me and all that you said

Brought back tender memories of ginger and fruit

But they were prose

Now heaven knows that isn't the way it goes

I was halfway to paradise yesterday

Away in my balloon

But I drifted off course on the Milky Way

And now I'll have to change my tune

It might have been better if only I tried

But you went and blew it like Bonnie and Clyde

And now you're gone

At last not one

It's over and I suppose

That's really the way it goes