The Way Things Turned Out To Be

 

THE WAY THINGS TURNED OUT TO BE

W&M G Seal July 2020

A sadly true story

 

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We married young and happy and the kids soon came along,

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You were a soldier then, proud and well and strong,

G                                        C.                         G                                C

But the man who we once thought you were became a memory:

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That’s just the way things turned out to be.

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The way things turned out to be

 

You shipped out with the army to some place without a name,

God knows what you did there, but you didn’t come home the same,

That thousand-yard stare you carried looked right through the kids and me:

That’s just the way things turned out to be.

The way things turned out to be

 

We all worked our way through it, got by day to day,

The kids grew up and learned when it was best to stay away,

The FIFO was good money, but it was hard on you and me:

That’s just the way things turned out to be.

The way things turned out to be

 

Lockdown in the Covid was more than you could stand,

Nowhere for us to get away from where you laid your hand,

Someone called the cops out, now all of us are free:

That’s just the way things turned out to be.

The way things turned out to be

 

So now you’re not my husband, you’re the father of my sons,

That will be hard for you but it’s best for everyone

I know you couldn’t help it, but that was no help to me:

That’s just the way things turned out to be.

The way things turned out to be

The way things turned out to be