Lookin' in the mirror and you don't look the same
Girls from your past getting new last names
High school friends burning out like their cigarettes
Guess that's what happens the older you get
Start to wish you could've been sixteen forever
'Cause you know your favorite band ain't getting back together
And the nights you don't remember are the nights that you'll never forget
Guess that's what happens the older you get
Oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh
Oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh
[?]
'Cause after the summer [?]
And how [?] we never said
Guess that's what happens
Sometimes the cancer goes away and sometimes it don't
So now when your momma calls you always pick up the phone
And you talk a little longer 'cause tomorrow is not a sure bet
Oh, oh
Oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh
Oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh
The house you grew up in is now getting sold
In a box through the wind [?] go
You close your eyes one last time in your childhood days
Guess that's what happens the older you get
Home was a place, now home is a person
And you're lookin' at rings 'cause you swear that you're certain
And the best day of your life becomes the day that the two of you met
Guess that's what happens the older you get
Oh, that's just the way it goes, oh
And, oh, that's just the way it goes, oh
Oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh
Oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh