We get high in back seats of cars We break into mobile homes We go to sleep to shake appeal Never wake up on our own And that's the way we get by We go out in stormy weather We rarely practice discern We make love to some weird sin We seek out the taciturn That's the way we get by We found a new kind of dance in a magazine Tried it out it's like nothing you ever seen You sweet talk like a cop and you know it You bought a new bag of pot, said let's make a new start And that's the way to my heart That's the way we get by We get high in back seats of cars We put faith in our concerns Fall in love to down on the street We believe in the sum of ourselves I said that's the way we get by