## Metadata
**Caption:** country, boom-chicka-boom rhythm, mid tempo, philosophical lyric, 1958, male vocal
**BPM:** 80
**Duration:** 146.0s
**Key:** D major
**Time Signature:** 2

## Lyrics
[verse]
Woke up this mornin', found your letter on the chair
Read it once and folded it, didn't shed a tear
Some folks might get angry, some folks might get mean
I just sat there thinkin' 'bout the way things seem

[chorus]
That's just how it goes, that's just how it goes
The sun comes up on a cloudy day
You can't hold the wind, you can't stop the tide
That's just how it goes, so I let it slide

[verse]
People ask me how I'm doin', I just shrug and grin
Say it's just the way the story's always been
Love comes like the weather, leaves the same old way
Nothin' that I do is gonna make it stay

[chorus]
That's just how it goes, that's just how it goes
The sun comes up on a cloudy day
You can't hold the wind, you can't stop the tide
That's just how it goes, so I let it slide

[bridge]
Maybe down the road I'll understand it more
Maybe I'll stop starin' at that half-shut door
But for now I'll walk on, carry what I can
And leave the rest to time's own hand

[chorus]
That's just how it goes, that's just how it goes
The sun comes up on a cloudy day
You can't hold the wind, you can't stop the tide
That's just how it goes, so I let it slide