Things Happen (Live from An Evening With Dawes)

[Verse 1]

I could go on talking or I could stop

Wring out each memory 'til I get every drop

Sift through the details of the others involved

The true crime would be thinking it's just one person's fault

[Verse 2]

Like an honest signature on a fake ID

Like the guilty conscience with the innocent plea

You can just ignore it, put it out of mind

But ain't it funny how the past won't ever let something lie?

[Chorus]

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through

Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to

I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you

Things happen, that's all they ever do

[Verse 3]

In a different time, on a different floor

I might mourn the loss of who I'm not anymore

So I'm driving out to Oakland for a good look back

And a few revisions to my plan of attack

[Chorus]

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through

Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to

I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you

Things happen, that's all they ever do

[Bridge]

I think I'll see Lilly

See where she stands

I can't help how I feel, I don't think anyone can

Sometimes we're lovers, sometimes we're friends

The hope of magnetism between two dead ends

[Chorus]

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through

Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to

I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you

Things happen, that's all they ever do

[Chorus 2 Overlayed]

We could qualify the spirit guides you listen to

Or why a mom's compelled to bronze its baby's shoes

I don't know what else that you want me to say to you

Things happen, that's all they ever do

That's all they ever do

That's all they ever do

That's all they do