The song The Way It Is is performed by Bruce Hornsby in the album named Here Come the Noise Makers in the year 2000 .
Standing in line marking time
Waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor ladies' eyes
Just for fun he says, "Get a job"
That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah but don't you believe them
Said, hey little boy you can't go where the others go
'Cause you don't look like they do
Said, hey old man how can you stand
To think that way, did you really think about it
Before you made the rules?
He said, "Son, that's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah but don't you believe them"
That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is
Well they pa*sed a law in '64
To give those who ain't got a little more
But it only goes so far
Because the law don't change another's mind
When all it sees at the hiring time
Is the line on the color bar, no, no, no
That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is, it is, it is, it is
Bruce Hornsby - Here Come the Noise Makers
- Piano Intro/Great Divide
- The Red Plains
- The Road Not Taken
- Lady With A Fan
- Stander On The Mountain
- Jacob's Ladder/Blackberry Blossom
- Piano Intro/I Loves You Porgy/Nocturne
- The Way It Is
- Twelve Tone Tune/King Of The Hill
- Spider Fingers/Tempus Fugit
- The Valley Road
- The End Of The Innocence
- Sunflower Cat/It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
- Mandolin Rain/Black Muddy River