This Is How It Goes

Standing on the steps thinking I could try again

Or I could tear this all apart

I don’t need you now like I did back then

I just don’t want to fall too hard

But this is how it goes when you let it back in

This is how it goes

This is how it goes when you’re defined by it

This is how it goes

I can be alone, I could be myself again

I don’t have to play a part

Getting off at 6th even though you’re waiting at 7th

I just don’t want to go that far

But this is how it goes, and you lose lovers and friends

This is how it goes

This is how it goes when your means become ends

This is how it goes

I hear the voice as sweet as before

It’s been the same from the start

“Oh, just this once” and “Just this once more”

I’ve watched this all fall apart

But this is how it goes when you let it back in

This is how it goes

This is how it goes when you’re defined by it

This is how it goes

Goes, goes