I'm a modern guy I don't care much for the go-go
Or the retro image I see so often telling me to
Keep trying maybe you'll get here someday
Keep up the working, ok.
I close the book on them right there

I see myself change as the days change over.
I hear the songs and the words don't change.
I write them out of the book right there.

We've been had, you say it's over.
Sometimes I'm just happy I'm older.
We've been had I know it's over.
Somehow it got easy to laugh out loud.

See me age 19 with some dumb haircut from
1960 moving to New York City
Live with my friends there we're all taking the same steps seems foolish now .

We've been had you say it's over.
Sometimes I'm just happy I'm older.
We've been had I know it's over.
Somehow it got easy to laugh out loud.


Lyrics submitted by punchyk, edited by karritevoyager

We've Been Had Lyrics as written by Matthew Frederick Barrick James Hamilton Leithauser

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    As said above, this song just represents all of life's letdowns. As we grow up we are all led to believe things that are simply UNTRUE.

    We are led to believe that if we dont do drugs we will all be millionaires. We are led to believe that if we meet a girl and buy her flowers and treat her well....you will be in love forever.

    television and our school systems have a mass produced way of teaching people. We soon find out that "We've been had" and that everyone has their own path. Life is not the cookie cutter shape that we were told it will be given a few simple choices.

    No, college doesnt make you successfull. No, she may not love you and in fact...she may cheat on you.

    Life is life, not an afterschool special. We have all been had and no song represents this fact better than this one.

    danny_Horneyon March 21, 2005   Link

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