The Way It Goes won the fan contest for favorite song. Sharky explained how the song came to be:

The genesis of "the way it goes " was a thought I had about a Petter Jeffries song. Peter Jeffries is a remarkable songwriter who did a bunch of songs and field recordings in New Zealand where he lives. One song in particular (the title escapes me at the moment but it was something like "figure on an unknown beach") struck me the very first time I heard it. I thought the piano line that started the song, and played throughout it was beautiful. So I sampled it, and that became the backbone of "He made us All Blind". (On a side note I actually tracked Peter down one day by calling New Zealand information to secure his permission to use the sample on "I become small...". The experience was charming because his number was unlisted in the international directory, but there were several other Peter Jeffries unlisted, so one of the Peter Jeffries I spoke with had a local phone book, and he was kind enough to dig up the right number for me. The "real" Peter was quite gracious and immediately agreed to give me permission without so much as a "let me check with my lawyer". Unheard of in the music industry...)
I continued to think about this piano line long after I sampled it, and one day I thought "hey I know how to play piano, maybe I could write a line that's half as beautiful". And so I sat at the piano in whatever studio I was in that day and tried to write a "Peter Jeffries" line. Surprisingly, I found something usable fairly quickly, and I spent the next hour playing it over and over again, so that I wouldn't forget it.
The line itself actually has several different patterns, and there were literally hundreds of combinations to try before I settled on the patterns I liked. The riff spent several years gathering momentum, slowly but surely, and I knew all along I was going to use it for something, but I didn't know what. It was almost too sad to be used in a creeper record, at least one envisioned by the Dreamworks corporation, so it sat on the back burner for quite a while. Which suited me fine as it had to age properly and acquire all of its character.
Finally after the Dreamworks lineup dissolved I had the right form of fuel (bitterness, resignation, heartache) to finish the song in the manner that it deserved. And so I sat at Walt's piano for a couple hours several days a week for a couple months in the summer of 2001 and picked away at what the song would look like in it's final form.
The lyrics came fairly quickly, with almost no effort. Typically once I get a first line going I can live with, the rest falls into place. For me It's all about finding the kernel of truth that sets the stage, and letting the stage set itself after that.
Once the parts were complete (and the bridge was a real bear to figure out - I spent weeks looking for the right feeling for the bridge) it was time to record it.
I made several attempts at recording. The first couple times were too slow, and then I did several versions that were too fast, and finally one day I had a speed that felt about right. The piano performance is complete and uncut, if memory serves me correctly. If it wasn't, it was really close. I didn't want to do any punch-ins. I wanted to play it start to finish, and really try and express the song through my playing, which just made the whole thing terribly difficult because if I made a mistake in the final chorus it meant I had to start all over again. Walt was a total angel and patiently sat there hitting the record button over and over and over again until I was happy.
And then we did the vocals, which is always a difficult process for me, as I typically hear great vocals in my heard, but very mediocre vocals coming out of my mouth. But with a bit of effort, and some of Walt's fancy chocolate bars, I got a performance I could live with.
And that's where the song was going to stay - a piano ballad.
But around this time I met Miles, Rachel and Jason. And I got them hip to recording in a computer, and one day I brought the song over on two tracks: piano and vocal, to let them play with it for a while and see what they did. When I came back a couple days later they had poured themselves into adding a lot of interesting beats and it totally changed the song in my eyes. I was blown away by what they had done and was really excited about this new direction for the song. We took it back to Walt's where we had Rachel sing along on the bridge parts, and I futzed around a while with some of the programming, mainly just cleaning up obvious mistakes, and things that were out of place.. Finally the time came to finish the Remember The Future EP, and we had a deadline to meet to finish mixing it. I blocked out two days of my schedule and spent nearly 48 hours straight, with no rest, mixing the EP. Since a lot of the songs had been mixed already ("So Little To Give", "Kisses And
Pills") or only had a couple tracks ("Crisis"), I spent most of that time working on "The way it goes" and "There's a new girl".
Finally we hit the end of the 2nd day, and I really liked the mix.
Barely able to keep my eyes open, we burned the master CD, and sent it to the mastering engineer for mastering.
Scheduling conflicts prevented Miles, Rachel and Jason from being there throughout the whole process, and I had to play them the mix after it was already compelte.
It wasn't a done deal, as Miles felt some important elements ahd been either buried or lost. To be honest I was so tired, and there were so many tracks on that song, that I could have easily misplaced or lost something. But I thought the feeling of the song was intact, and I was more or less able to convince him of that. I don't think he was totally happy with it at first, but with time that feeling faded, and he was cool with it in the end.
Several years later it wins the Creeper Madness game over some pretty stiff competition (quite a surprising result I must say!). So I would like to say that I am proud of this song, and I'm proud of everyone that collaborated with me on it, and I'm pleased that you all enjoy it as well.