Hornsby, Bruce - The Way It Is Lyrics






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 old lady's 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?
And 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, yeah

That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is

Well, they passed a law in '64
To give those who ain't got a little more
But it only goes so far
'Cause the law don't change another's mind
When all it sees at the hiring time
Is the line on the color bar, 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





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  1. B.... T....

    Thank god for YouTube or old gits like me wouldn't be able to reminisce and the young 'uns wouldn't get to hear these legends for themselves...

  2. o.... ....

    The 80"s music never die. Greatest years the 80 's.

  3. S.... D....

    Hit anos 80
    Hit ano2020
    Hit ano 3450

  4. S.... B....

    2pac Changes i love both ❤️

  5. G.... R....

    Ramsey L:ewis bag

  6. M.... F....

    Bruce Hornsby & Huey Lewis are still real-life friends...That's pretty awesome!

  7. G.... S....

    Most underrated singer from 80’s..!

  8. I.... R....

    🎹❀ヅ❤♫

  9. Y.... A....

    Love this song ❤️ the sound of piano melody reach the moon

  10. Y.... A....

    Love this song ❤️ the sound of piano melody reach the moon

  11. S.... 9....

    "I don't have some way to put it"
    "That's the Way It Is"



    *I SAID WHAT TIME DO YOU GO TO BED*

  12. E.... M....

    Takes me back to 1986 ♥️♥️♥️

  13. V.... M....

    Very beautiful music

  14. A.... ....

    2020 and still one of the best songs ever ❤️

    A.... ....

    👏👍🇧🇷🇧🇷Brazil

  15. J.... F....

    Yessssss
    A love music🎧
    Hornsby bruce 👍👍👍
    Tank you tupac shatur rip

  16. t.... ....

    I heard this on the radio a few days ago and my mind wouldn't let the piano chorus go... so I've had to search out the song, just to play it, so as to appease my mind... that wouldn't let it go... until it had it's fill of this song...lol...

  17. M.... M....

    2020 still listening to this.
    Somethings will never change...

  18. G.... 1....

    This song reminds of a time when I had no job, little money, no-one to love, or be loved by and not much hope...but that's just the way it is.....

    G.... 1....

    Going through this atm. I hope I'll pull through.

    G.... 1....

    Gazookerman 1 stay strong

  19. p.... ....

    2020🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

  20. R.... O....

    Bruce Hornsby & The Range...The way it is, one of my all time favourite songs.....its exceptional 😍🎹🎸🥁Bruce's  recording career started with the biggest hit he has had to date, The way it is. It topped the American music charts in 1986. With the success of this single the album titled The way it is.... went multi platinum

    R.... O....

    its just beautiful

  21. M.... ....

    ...And a helluva bass line as well.

  22. R.... V....

    One of the best songs and piano performances in all the time.

  23. F.... N....

    First time i heard the music from this great band was when i was a young teenanger....since then i still listen too the music....and the lyrics have helped me trough many difficult times....but mostly happy times...Thanks for making music with a atttitude.

  24. a.... h....

    HEY GLENN, YEP JUST LOVE THIS SONG...IN AUSTRALIA IN PERTH THEY USED THE LYRICS IN AD BREAKS FOR THE CHALLENGE OF THE'AMERCIAS CUP' WELL WE LOST BUT GREAT SONG CAN LISTEN TO THIS IN ANY DECADE...2020NOW STILL RESONATES ANNILELEE

  25. J.... M....

    Something’s will never change. Except the music. Sadly for the worse.

    J.... M....

    There was plenty of bad shit in the 80s just as there's plenty of good things in today's music... but if you only look in Top 40, then you won't realize this.

    J.... M....

    Just another generic ‘Music was better in my day’ post. Some music was good and bad in the 80s, just as it is now

    J.... M....

    wasn't just music that was better though, people were, on the whole, compared to now...everyone's rude.

    J.... M....

    @DesertRose122 I take it you don't leave your house very often.

  26. C.... H....

    Grandstand final scores

  27. L.... C....

    Listening & Loving it on the 2nd day of 2020!

  28. T.... K....

    Bruce Hornsby is to the piano as what Carlos Santana is to the guitara ~ pura sol

  29. W.... B....

    One of my favourite hits from the 80s. Regularly played on London’s Capital Radio. Memories :)

  30. T.... B....

    2:48 OOooh

  31. F.... C....

    Música Linda de ouvir com coração ouvir o dia todo e não canso mais a letra dela é muito séria mais toque do piano é muito Linda adoro adoro

  32. M.... K....

    Can anyone of the 1500 people who disliked this song can please explain to me why they did that? Honest question, not a rhetorical one.

  33. E.... ....

    Back when you needed actual talent to be a musician

    E.... ....

    So much fax bro

  34. E.... B....

    Anyone else think that Cheryl Coles ‘ Fight For This Love’ had a riff inspired by the beginning of this song? The part when she says ‘ I’m willing and ready to go, we’ve been driving so fast, we just need to slow down and just roll’
    I still think this song tops, though

  35. H.... U....

    One of the best songs with the most beautiful melody!

  36. C.... P....

    This man is just a brilliant pianist.

  37. R.... G....

    0:47 waldenburgerbahn und lorenwagen

  38. s.... m....

    Still listening in 2019 🔥🔥

  39. b.... h....

    Hadn't heard this in years. Heard it playing in a shop. Memories triggered. Had to hear it again 🤗

  40. B.... E....

    Brutal song, I prefer Tupac's interpretation of it but still... good music!

  41. M.... W....

    Incredible

  42. M.... T....

    yea...








    I sampled this shit

  43. U.... M....

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2lUJpYyDqWGrJyPE014mL5OCOjIqZsx  
    Possédant un style aéré et nonchalant qui dément ses dons techniques, le pianiste Bruce Hornsby écrit des chansons puissantes du cœur qui touchent à plusieurs traditions distinctement américaines: pop, jazz, bluegrass et soul des années 60. Il a travaillé pendant un certain temps en tant que joueur de studio et auteur-compositeur, et a eu son premier succès en 1986 avec l'émouvant et philosophique "The Way It Is".
    Leur premier album, The Way It Is, est sorti en avril 1986. Il a finalement produit trois tubes du Top 20, dont le plus important était le socialement conscient "The Way It Is", qui mettait en vedette les pistes de piano à main droite typiquement mélodiques de Hornsby. L'album est resté dans les charts pendant près d'un an et demi et s'est vendu à deux millions d'exemplaires. Hornsby & the Range a remporté le prix du meilleur nouvel artiste Grammy Award pour 1986.

  44. F.... Y....

    *Final d dezembro 2.019* mais alguém? Novamente ouvindo e vendo esse vídeo...♫♪ love som😍 86 a 2.019 and forever...👱

  45. N.... S....

    It is an 80's song (86 to be exact) of incredible beauty, harmony and meaning. The melody is characterized by lightness and depth in the lyrics and the message of the song and denotes a message to make us think and reflect that its lyrics are very serious and committed to the serious problem of social exclusion motivated by prejudice and racism and intolerance. It expresses an interpretation whose theme and meaning has to do with human or inhuman behavior in today's increasingly unprecedented times. It is undoubtedly a masterpiece, written by the talented Bruce Hornsby. Loved the harmony of the piano and notes and arrangements ... Beautiful and moving ..

  46. h.... p....

    25 de dezembro feliz Natal

  47. S.... k....

    25th DEC 2019

    S.... k....

    S ksami merry Christmas

  48. m.... b....

    Merry Christmas Hornesby fans!!

  49. R.... S....

    All that time I thought it was 2PAC's tone...

    R.... S....

    Hip hop is about sampling something and making it new. 2Pac sampled Everythang lol.

    Look up, the original track of "What you won't do for love".

    Comment your reaction.

    R.... S....

    @zucchinigreen Very interesting

    R.... S....

    This is shit compared to 2pac

  50. a.... ....

    So it was from here that 2Pac took the melody

  51. A.... ....

    Tupac Shakur was the one that allowed me to listen this beauty. But all props to Bruce Honrsby fantastic melody and chord progression. Both versions are beautiful

  52. N.... E....

    Trop bien et toujours bien en décembre 2018

  53. E.... G....

    Greendale Community College's Song

    E.... G....

    Just watched this episode lol

    E.... G....

    Music that makes u think of better times wen musicians played their Owen instruments without the help of drum an bass machines

  54. M.... M....

    chanson intemporelle

  55. 5.... p....

    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.

  56. 5.... p....

    Stone cold classic 💖

  57. C.... B....

    Changes - 2pac Amazing

  58. T.... V....

    Listening um dec. 18/2020

  59. M.... M....

    Ótimo! Alguém de Maringá?

  60. F.... L....

    Em pleno 2019 dia 19 de dezembro escutando essa obra prima no Piano. Sem PALAVRAS. RJ. BR

  61. a.... ....

    I used to listen to love this song, and then I took an arrow to the knee.

  62. D.... B....

    The day's football results, analysed and read by Bob Wilson on BBC's Grandstand at 5.05 Saturday afternoons.

  63. J.... M....

    Man in a silk suit Hurry's buy catches a poor old lady's eye just for fun he says suck my knob...

  64. F.... L....

    Isso que é música estamos de volta

  65. C.... ....

    Reguards from Monaco!

  66. D.... T....

    Greatest piano man since...since....OK leave it there.

  67. O.... A....

    I knew about this song because of Tupac's "Changes".

    Great song!

    God bless Bruce & God bless Tupac.

  68. 9.... �....

    Hahahaha i sang the tupac version

  69. M.... ....

    💚BR💛BR💙 PORRA💙BR💛BR💚

  70. j.... ....

    the irony of life.. after all the tax cuts.. and the trump tax cuts.. all them Men of white skin. and I was born ass white as them.. but them they now walk that unemployment line. as they cant find a job that pays more than the mn wage. even with the lowest unemployment rate in . most history.. low interest rates.. but a tax cut doesnt change the margins in business.. and sum things in business just dont change.. U best believe this.. hey u little girl u cant be paid the same as the little boy can be.. 80% paid them that make up the pun of paid to do the same job as the boys, girls remain paid 80% while /whyle they make Up 55++% of the labour units.. and they can perform any Task.. that man can.. even fires call down to them and claim a cop to arrest any a warrant.. or guard a bank or slave.. the women. er.. womyn remain paid 80% of their white male counterparts.. if the male be not quite white.. or the female. well then the rates of pay go down down and down. Hispanic women make way way way the least.. if they get paid at all.. some end UP and r found.. and they all wanted. (pun not intended) to come to america.. like eddie.. 'Half eddie, i want half'.. // Thanks for the upload.. the more time passes during my lifetime the more the time before hand of Now repeats itself. and it really seems that the USA during the GWBush years went all stupid and high school dropout all at the same time. and them adults that were supposed to guide and same the dumb white men of the no cant read beyond grade 4 (14% of the born in USA pp of 2019 cant read grade 4 or beyond as per a Bloomberg report).. them adults seem to have died off.. leaving their uneducated and easily used into two wars under bush and they remain still committed. but at 20 dead vets per day.. since 2005 alone that equates to over 102,000 dead by own hand suicide vets.. and none go to Heaven.. suicide is a mortal sin. but this track is about how during the 1980s the men. mostly white called out . others for not being as smart or as them. well now them Kin of the dumb men now reign mostly in Hell. at 20 per day.. // Merry Christmas and .. that IS just the way it IS.. self inflicted.. //

  71. N.... P....

    One of my favourite songs & pianists.

  72. r.... h....

    I know this he is a big liberal, but think conservatives listen to his music more so.

  73. E.... A....

    One of the MOST ICONIC songs of the eighties.

  74. P.... K....

    Fuck Tupac

  75. F.... m....

    the most beautiful song of all time

  76. D.... ....

    Welcome to England 2019

  77. m.... t....

    Uma canção com uma leveza sonora tão incrível que nunca nos fez pensar que sua letra é bastante séria e comprometida em nos fazer refletir sobre a séria questão da exclusão social motivada pelo prenconceito e pelo racismo. É, românticos e saudosistas de plantão que ignoram a língua inglesa! The Way it is é mais profunda do que vocês imaginavam!

    m.... t....

    Obrigada Marcelo Tobias, é realmente uma música de uma mensagem profgunda e muito reflexiva...Linda e comovente!!!

  78. J.... J....

    ONE OF THE BEST SONG'S OF ALL TIME

  79. J.... H....

    Been listening to this since it’s release. Still wonderful. It will be played at my cremation service amongst others top of the list. John h

  80. J.... 1....

    I see no changes, wake up in the morning, and I ask myself
    Is life worth living, should I blast myself?
    I'm tired of bein' poor, and even worse I'm black
    My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch... ❤

  81. P.... M....

    December 2019!!!

    P.... M....

    Please please shut the fuck up No one in the world cares when youre watching this.

  82. A.... P....

    How many bollywood songs began like this ... Korean and Japanese two.
    He set the trend. Amazing 80s which carried on and one and on .. till it became soap and cosmetic jingles.

  83. M.... ....

    Greendale's Just The Way It Goes...

  84. B.... G....

    I thought Tu Pac wrote this (joking)

  85. J.... O....

    RIP Tupac 💙
    Real HipHop fans pay respect to Originals. Thanks Bruce Hornsby

  86. N.... B....

    the bass is not a real bass, but it is a keyboard!

  87. M.... R....

    It uplift the Soul!!!!!! It speaks to the HEART!!!!!!!! It truly does, I kid you not!!!!!!!!! God bless you from Matt in Auckland, New Zealand!!!!!!!!!!!!

  88. M.... R....

    Mr. Hornsby, may I, Mathew Renouf tell you that your music is INDESCRIBABLY AMAZING Sir!!!! Your singing and your music, if I may say, is UNREAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  89. a.... j....

    go away Jake

  90. r.... b....

    Some good things, like this song, will never change! That's just the way it is!

  91. R.... b....

    Pra mim a melhor musica do mundo💕

  92. E.... R....

    All this time I thought this was Tupac’s😭😅

  93. I.... F....

    ‘Just for fun he says, “Get a job.”’ Those first three words put me in a fit for a year in my childhood. “How could someone think that was fun?” I’d ask my mother too often.
    Songs that stay with you because they attach to your memory are one thing. Songs that force you to discover the world—good or bad—are what art is all about.

  94. P.... C....

    1.4k people will never change

  95. H.... c....

    A lot of rap songs use white music.

  96. D.... L....

    December 2019. X

  97. C.... X....

    Wefere?<3

  98. o.... ....

    N B A ;)

  99. C.... P....

    OMG a real pianist...I love this song...