Artist/Band:
Sleater-Kinney
Lyrics for Song: Get Up
Lyrics for Album: The Hot Rock [1999]
And when the body finally starts to let go
let it all go at once
not piece by piece.
but like a whole bucket of stars
dumped into the universe.
Whoooh! Watch it go!
Good-bye small hands, good-bye small heart,
good-bye small head
My soul is climbing tree trunks
and swinging from every branch
They're calling on me,
They're calling on me
they're calling on me...
(I am fine)
They're calling on me,
They're calling on me
they're calling on me...
(I'm not fine)
Do you think I'm an animal?
Am I not?
Do you like fur
(I'm alright)
Do you wanna come over
Are we captive only for a short time
(I'm not right)
Is there splendor,
I'm not ashamed
Desire shoots through me
like birds singing
(The way you move no ocean's waves were ever as fluid)
They're calling on me,
They're calling on me
they're calling on me...
(I am fine)
They're calling on me,
They're calling on me
they're calling on me...
(I'm not fine)
I hit the mark!
I target moon, I target sky, I target sun.
Fall down on the world, Fall down on the world,
Fall down on the world
before it falls on you.
Like beggars, like stars,
like whores, us all
(I'm alright)
Like beggars, like dogs
Like stars, us all
(I'm not right)
Shoot straight for my heart
(And when you were near no sky was ever quite so clear)
Like stars, so small
Like us. when we fall
(I am fine)
Like beggars, like whores
Like lovers, Oh, Get Up!
Get up...too far.
Oh, Get Up!
Get up...too far.
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