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The Getting By is a track by The Killers, taken from the album “Pressure Machine”, released August 13, 2021 on The Killers - 2020 P&D/ Island. It runs 5:09. Use the Play button above when a verified stream is available, or choose a listening service from the other options.
Within the album sequence, this recording sits alongside West Hills, Quiet Town, Terrible Thing. Open the album page to compare the full running order and the listening options available for each song.
Song details
- Song
- The Getting By
- Artist
- The Killers
- Release
- Pressure Machine
- Format
- Album
- Duration
- 5:09
- Release date
- August 13, 2021
- Record label
- The Killers - 2020 P&D/ Island
- Content notice
- Standard
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Lyrics
Find another songIt's just small town filling and just living the small town an—
Like my kids ride dirt bikes and motorcycles
and they just go across the street in the field and ride.
I can watch 'em off my front porch, um.
My one boy's into shed-horn hunting,
so he'll take off and go park his truck out west and be gone all day, and—
They— The mountains are just in our backyard.
That's the nice part about it
When I get up, she swears that she don't hear it
Says that I'm as quiet as a mouse
I comb my hair and throw some water on my face
And back out of the stillness of our house
Lately, my patience is in short supply
Nothing good seems to ever come from all this work
No matter how hard I try
You know I believe in the Son, I ain't no backslider
But my people were told they'd prosper in this land
Still, I know some who've never seen the ocean
Or set one foot on a velvet bed of sand
But they've got their treasure laying way up high
Where there might be many mansions
But when I look up, all I see is sky
Maybe it's the getting by that gets right underneath you
It'd swallow up your every step, boy, if it could
But maybe it's the stuff it takes to get up
In the morning and put another day in, son
That holds you till the getting's good
Green ribbon front doors, dishwater days
This whole town is tied to the torso of God's mysterious ways
Maybe it's the getting by that gets right underneath you
It'd swallow up your every step, boy, if it could
But maybe it's the stuff it takes to get up
In the morning and put another day in, son
That keeps you standing where you should
So put another day in, son, and hold on till the getting's good
Twice a day. Twice a day.
Yeah, twice a day it comes through— my grandkids.
When it comes through, they run out
and they look down the road because they like to see it go by
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- 02 Quiet Town 4:45
- 03 Terrible Thing 3:52
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- 08 In Another Life 3:45
- 09 Desperate Things 5:16
- 10 Pressure Machine 5:09