Maybe your troubles got the best of you God knows the punishment don't always fit the crime Sometimes you know even your best won't do Does the end of the rope mean hell or hope that's up to you Because the world goes around And everything changes And then we start again But wearing different faces Sometimes you're on top Sometimes you're not Even the sun goes down Because the world goes around And we take our chances together Turn for the worse Or turn for the better Who can say All we can do is endeavor To live like nothing bad can last forever All our days Because the world goes around Maybe it's not enough to know your way Sometimes you've just gotta take the long way around Choose your adventure there's no pay or play What's gonna be your measure pain or pleasure Because the world goes around And everything changes And then we start again But we're in different places Sometimes you're way up But on your way down Like a kid in the clouds And then the world goes around And we take our chances together Turn for the worse Or turn for the better Who can say All we can do is endeavor To live like nothing bad can last forever All our days Because the world goes around And everything changes Then we start again In all our different ways And then the world goes around and round and round Then everything changes Then we start again In all our different ways, oh so different Sometimes you're on top And sometimes you're not Even the sun goes down Because the world goes around