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 favourite

band ain't getting back together

And the nights you don't remember are

the nights that you will never forget

Guess that's what happens the older you get

Oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh

And, oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh

Life's goin' good but you wonder what's after

'Cause dad is moving slower and time's moving faster

You hug a little tighter and say the things you 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

And, oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh

Hey

Guess that's what happens the older you get

Oh, oh

The house you grew up in is now gettin' sold

And a box full of memories is worth more than gold

You close your eyes one last time in your childhood bed

Guess that's what happens, what happens, oh

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

And, oh, that's just the way that it goes, oh

And, oh, that's just the way that it goes