Up Against The Wall Lyrics - Whitlams

To think, it was going so well 

We'd go out at night, come home and fight like hell 

Good fights about big things 

You know, just pushing around in the dark 

To think, I was scared to open the box 

New love on the doorstep, isn't it funny? There's nothing on how it works 

Go on, have a look inside 

You won't know what you did without it 

Well, you slept, you met interesting people 

And you slept with them 

I'm up against the wall now 

Yeah, I'm up against the wall 

Hotel room, a silent phone 

A packet of fags, a bottle of wine, a suitcase you call your own 

When the darkness comes from the inside out 

Even the barmen are pricks 

Vitriol, the cigarettes 

A long night of thinking and the search for the best vignettes 

Yeah, well, it was good, wasn't it? 

Then it got bad 

Some say, love, it only comes once in a lifetime 

Well, once is enough for me 

She was one in a million, yeah 

So there's five more, just in New South Wales 

There's a show on the television now 

A man in the jungle with monkeys, he's saying, we've come so far 

Yeah, well, it's news to me 

I'd better go and evolve now 

Yeah, to think it was going so well 

We'd go out at night, come home and fight like hell 

Good fights about big things 

Like, "Who wrote the book on men?" Well, it was me 

Yeah, I'm up against the wall now 

Yeah, I'm up against the wall now 

Some say, love, it only comes once in a lifetime 

Well, once is enough for me 

She was one in a million, yeah 

So there's five more, just in New South Wales 

Well, you slept, you met interesting people 

And you slept with them 

Yeah, I'm up against the wall now 

Yeah, I'm up against the wall now 

I'm afraid to say, I must fail her 

I must fail her, I must fail her 

I must fail her 

You met interesting people and and you slept with them 

I'm up against the wall now, I'm up against the wall now 

I'm afraid to say, I'm afraid to say 

I'm afraid to say, I must fail her 

I'm really growin' old now 

I'm really growin' old now