Getting Even (Up Against It)

It's so hard to know exactly what you need to say When no one wants to hear it from you anyway You get all caught up til it seems like it's all just a waste of time Your friends they left you They sold out Went for the easy money They gave up They got old Married their high schòol honeys To pretend late at night with the wife It wasn't all just a waste of time When everything was going our way Everybody on the winning side says that you're alright Until there's trouble on the highway Suddenly you're at the wheel alone They drop out of sight The ones who swore they'd never leave you When your back's to the wall Now they're all up and gone from the scene The couple friends who still believe in you Hold on to them now cause they're few and fucking far between When getting even is the reason you can find For going through another day and coming out on the other side Whatever gets us through Long as there's you and I We'll get by It always hurts when everybody does you wrong You always said that living well's the best revenge We'll prove it now It don't matter what we're up against It don't matter what we're up against No one listened to your story like they did last year And people seem to fade into the atmosphere But when I look to you with me here It don't matter anyway They'll never stop from wishing ill Whisper behind your back And it's so easy now to see the odds are getting stacked So push our chips into the middle It's the answer to the riddle we're up against They only wish you'd play along now And live a lifetime pacing circles in your head While counting all the ways you're wrong now Nobody cares about the letter There's been better So they said So you and me are getting out now We don't have a dime Half the time We're not making cents There's every reason we could doubt now But me and you will get through every single thing we're up against When getting even is the reason you can find For going through another day and coming out on the other side Whatever gets us through Long as there's you and I We'll get by It always hurts when everybody does you wrong You always said that living well's the best revenge Well prove it now It don't matter what we're up against It don't matter what we're up against Oh no oh oh It don't matter what we're up against Oh no It don't matter what we're up against Oh no