Al Stewart - How Does It Happen

Al Stewart - How Does It Happen



Oh, kid you're in a terrible state


You better pick yourself up before it gets too late


You're into phyiscal fitness and emotional fatness


You think you're an actress, you act like a mattress


How does it happen?


How does it happen?


How do things get to be that way?


How does it happen?


How does it happen?


I feel like a wheel on a train that's runnin' away


Runnin' away, runnin' away


Runnin' away, runnin' away



Oh, kid it can be bad out there


When the trash comes at you from everywhere


An original thought can be such a rush


Why do they feed you on a diet of man-made mush?


How does it happen?


How does it happen?


How does it get to be that way?


How does it happen?


How does it happen?


I feel like a wheel on a train runnin' away


Runnin' away, runnin' away


Runnin' away, runnin' away


I feel like a wheel on a train that's runnin' away



Oh, kid there's no quick solution


And there's no one there to grant you absolution


When your friends belong in an institution


There's a spanner in the works of evolution


How does it happen?


How does it happen?


How does it get to be that way?


How does it happen?


How does it happen?


I feel like a wheel on a train that's runnin' away...


Runnin' away, runnin' away


Runnin' away, runnin' away


Runnin' away


I feel like a wheel on a train that's runnin' away


Runnin' away, runnin' away