The Way It Is

I'm so sorry when I told you

Those smokestacks were making clouds for the sky

But if I told you the truth

It would just bring so many tears

So many tears to your eyes

I said if that's the way it is

The way it's gonna be

If that's the way it is

I'd rather make believe

Oh remember sitting on that beach

Watching all that lightning fill up the sky

Well you got so scared until I told you

It was just fireworks like the fourth of July

I said that's the way it is

The way it's gonna be

You know that's the way it is

I'd rather make believe

I know one day you'll be old enough

To know my stories I told are not true

But when you have your own children

And they ask you questions, you'll know

You'll know just what to do

You'll say that's way it is

The way it's gonna be

You'll say that's way it is

You'd rather make believe

I said that's the way it is

The way it's gonna be

You know that's the way it is

I'd rather make believe

If that's the way it is

The way it's gonna be

I said that's the way it is

I'd rather make believe

If that's the way it is

The way it's gonna be

If that's the way it is

I'd rather make believe