Sung By : Jo Dee Messina

Everybody wants an easy ride...
On the merry-go-round that we call life...
Take your drive on cruise control...
Then you wait to find out it's a winding road...
I had my dreams in view...
When the money ran out and the engine blew...


Hung my tears out to dry...
Then my dreams fell out of that clear blue sky...
And I, I was walkin' the clouds...
Feeling so safe and sound...
Then somethin' else knocks me down...


Well, Oh, That's the way it is...
Ya gotta roll with the punches...
That's the way it goes...
Ya gotta bend when the wind blows...
You live... You learn...
You crash and burn...
It's hit or miss...
And that's the way it is...


One fine day you wake up...
Completely, hopelessly fallin in love...
He's just what your looking for...
The only problem is, is the man's not sure...
Another guy'll give you everything...


The only problem is you don't feel a thing...
Well I know from expirence...
Nothin's ever gonna make perfect sense...
Oh, One day you get what you want...
But it's not what you think...
Then you get what you need...


Well, Oh, That's the way it is...
You gotta roll with the punches...
That's the way it goes...
You gotta bend when the wind blows...
You live... You learn...
You crash... and burn...
It's hit or miss...
And that's the way it is...


Yeah they say your soul is growing...
But sometimes I feel like throwin' somethin'...


Well, Oh, That's the way it is...
You gotta roll with the punches...
That's the way it goes...
Ya gotta bend when the wind blows...
Well, that's the way it is...
Ya gotta roll with the punches...
That's the way it goes...
You gotta bend when the wind blows...
You live...You learn...
You crash... and burn...
It's hit or miss...
And that's the way it is!