Up with music and people: You Get What You Give by New Radicals and Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

by Bob Schwartz

Do you listen regularly/occasionally to these songs? You should.


Wake up, kids
We got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees
So polite, we’re busy still saying please

But when the night is falling
You cannot find the light
You feel your dreams are dying
Hold tight

You’ve got the music in you
Don’t let go
You’ve got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don’t give up
You’ve got a reason to live
Can’t forget
We only get what we give

You Get What You Give by New Radicals (1998)


Truth is, I thought it mattered, I thought that music mattered
But does it bollocks; not compared to how people matter

We’ll be singin’
When we’re winnin’
We’ll be singin’

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You’re never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You’re never gonna keep me down

Tubthumping by Chumbawamba (1997)