The Way It Really Is

The Way It Really Is
Studio album by Lisa Loeb
Released	August 10, 2004
Genre	Folk
Label	Zoë
Producer	Loeb, various
Lisa Loeb chronology
Catch the Moon (2003)Catch the Moon2003 The Way It Really Is (2004) The Very Best of Lisa Loeb (2006)The Very Best of Lisa Loeb2006

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Entertainment Weekly	B 8/13/2004
Rolling Stone	link

The Way It Really Is is an album by Lisa Loeb, released in 2004 by Zoë/Rounder.

The album title got its title from a previous song by Loeb, "The Way It Really Is".

Reception

Although the album was not as commercially successful as its predecessors, it was very well received by some critics who noted on the mature and strong writing by Loeb, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine calling it "the best, most cohesive record she's made, a clean, crisp collection of well-crafted, gentle tunes that slowly, surely work into the subconscious."

Track listing

1. "Window Shopping" (Dave Bassett, Lisa Loeb) – 3:17
2. "I Control the Sun" (Bassett, Loeb) – 3:01
3. "Hand-Me-Downs" (Stephanie Bentley, Loeb) – 3:42
4. "Fools Like Me" (Loeb, Shelly Peiken, John Shanks) – 3:38
5. "Try" (Loeb) – 4:13
6. "Diamonds" (Loeb) – 3:04
7. "Would You Wander" (Loeb, Maia Sharp) – 3:33
8. "Probably" (Jimmy Harry, Loeb, Billy Steinberg) – 3:04
9. "Accident" (Loeb) – 4:04
10. "Lucky Me" (Loeb) – 2:29
11. "Now I Understand" (Loeb, Dweezil Zappa) – 3:07
12. "This Isn't Happening" (Japanese Bonus Track)

Personnel

• Chad Fischer - producer (tracks 3, 9), engineer (tracks 3, 7, 9), piano on "Hand-Me-Downs"
• Larry Goldings - piano on "Accident"