Get Up Kid

Album: It's the End of the World but It's a Beautiful Day (2023)
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  • Born in Bossier City, Louisiana, Jerod and Shannon Leto faced early challenges with their parents' divorce, but their mother's hippie spirit fueled their artistic passions. Tragedy struck when their father remarried and later took his life, leaving them to rely on each other even more.

    "Get Up Kid" is a motivational song about the ups and downs of life, and the bond between the two siblings.

    "[It] got me thinking about things... Sometimes life is easy. Sometimes it's not," Jared Leto wrote in social media, adding an image of them both as children.

    "But I'm lucky because I have my brother to share this journey with," he continued. "No matter how hard life might seem at times we always have each other to turn to. Feeling grateful for that. And for all of you."
  • The chorus serves as a rallying call to stay resilient during trying times.

    Get up, kid, don't give in
    Waited your whole life for this
    Get up, kid, swing and a miss
    But life's around the bend
    When the lights are on, but your heart ain't home
    Get up, kid


    These tough times may knock us down, but the repeated phrase "Get up Kid" serves as a lifeline, reminding us to keep our heads held high, pushing forward despite the trials that plague us.

    Life's journey might not always unfold as planned, but there are always unexplored avenues to conquer, symbolized by the line, "But life's around the bend."
  • "Get Up Kid" is a single from Thirty Seconds to Mars' sixth studio album, It's the End of the World but It's a Beautiful Day. The band took advantage of their time in lockdown and penned 200 tracks for the record.
  • The Leto brothers co-wrote the song with songwriters Ammar Malik and Jackson Wise. Jared and Shannon Leto, Malik and Wise co-produced the track with Oscar Neidhardt. Malik and Neidhardt also contributed to the lead single of It's the End of the World but It's a Beautiful Day, "Stuck."

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