Every night you and I catch a wandering eye
 
 We stand out like trees in cotton rows
 
 It ain't a look, it ain't a style we might throw
 
 down after a while
 
 It's the way we are and that's the way it goes
 
  
  Chorus
  
 
 The way we are, the way we are
 
 You might think we fell right off the same bright star, the way we are
 
 Never had a dream so good to me so far
 
 It don't leave nothing much to say, the way we are
  
 
 I'd lost my mind riding on the 99
 
 When you found me singing sad and low
 
 And at the end of the track, you took my hand
 
 and led me back
 
 To the happy song I'd left so long ago
  
 
 Chorus
  
 
 It might be, I might say, we weren't born to be this way
 
 There's a million ways they say and this I see
 
 But it occurred to me last night, when I saw you standing in the moonlight
 
 If I die this way that'll be okay with me
  
 
 The way we are, the way we are
 
 You might think we fell right off the same bright star, the way we are
 
 Never had a dream so good to me so far
 
 I never thought I would meet someone who
 
 would share a fate like ours
 
 It don't leave nothing much to say the way we are