Somewhere in the world there, is a father and a motherAnd the father is a son, who has a motherThe mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a motherAnd they all just tryna multiply with one another'Cause that's just the way of the worldIt never ends till the end, then you start againThat's just the way of the worldThat's just the way of the worldSomewhere in the world, they think they're working for themselvesThey get up everyday to go to work for someone elseAnd somebody works for them and, so, they think they got it madeBut they're all just working to get paid the very sameAnd so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dumThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum-dumAnd so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum-dumSomewhere in the world, you got a robber and a bankAnd the bank robbed the people, so the people rob the bankAnd the police came to get him, but they let him get away'Cause they're all just workin' to get paid the very same'Cause that's just the way of the worldIt never ends till the end, then you start againThat's just the way of the worldThat's just the way of the worldAnd so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum-dumAnd so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum-dumDon't believe everything that you hearLet it go through your left and right earDon't just march to the beat of that drumDon't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs'Cause that's just the way of the world (way of the world)It never ends till the end, and then you start againThat's just the way of the worldThat's just the way of the worldAnd so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (keep on)Skiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum-dum (Woo-oo, woo-oo)And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (keep on, keep on)Skiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (la-a-a-a-a)Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum(Siddly-dee-da-da-da-de-da-dum-dum)They keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (keep on, keep on)Skiddly-dee-da-dumThey keep on, they keep onThey gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbsSkiddly-dee-da-dum-dumCause that's just the way of the world
Lyrics by Sabrina Carpenter
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