The song is clearly about failure, and repeated failure, but there aren't any specifics in there, just metaphors.
"How the West was Won" was the title of a 1963 movie about a pioneer family in the American West. It was joked, darkly, that the history could also be told from the Native American perspective and called "How the West was Lost".
Given the darkness of the song's lyrics, we can take for granted that the "Where it got us" is implied to be: Nowhere good. This is the second time in the song that a cheery line from pop culture is followed up by a dark comment. The other is "Just add water", a common tagline for products like powderized drinks. Its follow-up, "stir in lime" indicates a hard alcoholic drink is being mixed, so we are being told that the narrator drinks as a response to, or as a cause of, his problems.
The song is clearly about failure, and repeated failure, but there aren't any specifics in there, just metaphors.
"How the West was Won" was the title of a 1963 movie about a pioneer family in the American West. It was joked, darkly, that the history could also be told from the Native American perspective and called "How the West was Lost".
Given the darkness of the song's lyrics, we can take for granted that the "Where it got us" is implied to be: Nowhere good. This is the second time in the song that a cheery line from pop culture is followed up by a dark comment. The other is "Just add water", a common tagline for products like powderized drinks. Its follow-up, "stir in lime" indicates a hard alcoholic drink is being mixed, so we are being told that the narrator drinks as a response to, or as a cause of, his problems.