All You Ever Get

When you’ve got history nothing can ever be 

just the way it is

When your light is cast through a lens of the past 

the view is distorted

When you’re a long way from home and 

all you’ve ever known

Is one more f*ing thing that’s gone

You find all you ever get

Is another sob story repeating itself

is another fine mess made with somebody else

Is a new scenic picture, now ripped in half

is a broken addiction –

What you needed so bad

Is one more to chalk up to yesterday

is one more reason to run away

But when you’re frozen in place, by mistakes you’ve made

there’s no fighting chance

When you’ve tried to flee, but your worst enemy 

is your own advance

When you’re tired of being all alone, and sentiment is 

the twighlight zone

And you swear your heart is made of stone

You find all you ever get

Is another pretender with ill-intent

is another big spender when you’re already spent

Is a new dance partner in a masquerade

is the next candy-flinger along a parade

Is one truth bender after the next

is one to remember you’d rather forget

So when you can’t move forward and you can’t go back

When you can’t get away and you’re on the wrong track

When you want to fly up but you’re stuck on the ground

When you want to be right but there’s no one around

You find all you ever get

Is another sob story repeating itself

is another fine mess with somebody else

Is a new scenic picture, now ripped in half

is a broken addiction –

What you needed so bad

Is one more to chalk up to yesterday

is one more reason to run away

Until you wake up one morning full of regret
And you realize that’s all you ever get