The Art of Getting By

When you're young, you don't think about

How good things have a bad side

You spend your time waiting around

For the fall, not the goodbye, yeah

When you're naive and so green

It makes it hard to believe

How life works when you're older

Even the best of us get hurt sometimes

Could be from life or love or I don't know why

It's all out of our hands, nobody will ever understand

Don't blame yourself and don't ask why

That's the art of getting by

That's the art of getting by

It gets easy to become blind to

The good things when times are rough

But when there's nothing left to try do

It's okay to throw your hands up

‘Cause there's no use in getting burned

From the same lessons that you learned

So carry them with you and be wiser

Even the best of us get hurt sometimes

Could be from life or love or I don't know whys

It's all out of our hands, nobody will ever understand

Don't blame yourself and don't ask why

That's the art of getting by

That's the art of getting by

No, life ain't a game

There's nothing to win and no way to cheat

We all walk through flames

All get burned from the heat

Even the best of us get hurt sometimes

Could be from life or love or I don't know why

It's all out of our hands, nobody will ever understand

Don't blame yourself and don't ask why

That's the art of getting by

That's the art of getting by