We've Been Had Lyrics
Or the retro image I see so
Often telling me to keep
trying, maybe you'll get here
Someday, keep up the working, okay,
I close the book on them right there
I hear the songs and the words don't change.
I write them out of the book right there.
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.
haircut from 1960 moving to New York
City, live with my friends there.
We're all taking the same steps.
They're foolish now
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.
This song makes me think of the expectations that we have of the world when we're leaving highschool and then college. We're basically programmed into believing that our lives will be mapped out perfectly, until we later get out there and are slapped a couple of times by the 'real world'. It kind of sucks and make you feel as though...I don't know..maybe you've been had. lol
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.
I agree with ophelia. But i wanted to add one thing. The whole part about laughing out loud makes me thing, that after being in the 'real word', "we've been had", but now -after it's all happened, we're able to recognize the pettiness of it all- - and just laugh. =)
it's actually about him and his friends moving to NYC and forming johhnathan fire*eater and them breaking up in 1998.
"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 . "
on the 4th line it is "keep up the work kid, ok"
i think this song is taking pot shots at the indie garage rock type bands that now popular, like the hives and the strokes and the white stripes and so on. the bands with the 'retro image' and 'dumb haircits from 1960'
I actually like this interpretation a lot.
I actually like this interpretation a lot.
To the right is an Ads by Google ad for a French Saturn cars website, and this car was aired on a Canadian Saturn commerical for the Ion.
The internet is a crazy thing.
Oh yeah, good song, too.
this song is my "my life is going to hell but at least the scenery is pretty" anthem. =P
it's all about seeing things screwing up and going wrong, or at least going the way you least expect them to turn out, yet still just laughing it off. if you don't laugh, you'll cry, so roll with the punches. you make mistakes, you screw yourself over, but in the end, life goes on... if you look at things from the angle of life being a joke, then things don't always seem so bad.
i love the playground merry-go-round music box ice cream truck opening bars.
I think Danny put it perfectly. This is one of my favorite songs, and you can see that you either have to laugh it off, or go insane that you can never get what they make seem so easy. I'm in college now and learning that first hand.
Great song with Great lyrics