The first you learn is grieving and loss

'Cause you can't return to the safe place you lost

From your mother's womb

into the chaos of the cold hospital room

When you're a child, they say, you follow the rules

And they send you to church and they drop you at school

And your little heart breaks

as you're watching them both drive away

And I cried on the side of the curb

Yeah, the panick set in and it hurt

Oh, but that's the way that it works

The way of the world

As you're groin up, you get faced with the truth

That your parents are people and messed up like you

And the child inside them

is broken and still hurten too

You get to the end when your time's almost done

With your skin paper thin and your bones giving up

From the very beginning, you've been going against the wind

And your body goes back to the earth

And your soul to the whole universe

God, I hope that's the way that it works

The way of the world

From the very first moment, it hurts

Till the day that you're layed in the dirt

Yeah, but that's the way that it works

The way of the world

The way of the world, ooh

Till the day that you're layed in the dirt

Yeah, but that's the way that it works

The way of the world (mm-mm, mm-mm)