You Got Me Singing

Album: Popular Problems (2014)
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  • You got me singing
    Even though the news is bad
    You got me singing
    The only song I ever had

    You got me singing
    Ever since the river died
    You got me thinking
    Of the places we could hide

    You got me singing
    (Singing even though the world is gone) even though the world is gone
    You got me thinking
    (Thinking that I'd like to carry on) I'd like to carry on

    (Oh, oh, oh) you got me singing
    (Singing even though it all looks grim) even though it all looks grim
    You got me singing
    (Singing the Hallelujah hymn) the Hallelujah hymn

    (Singing the Hallelujah hymn)

    You got me singing
    (Singing like a prisoner in a jail) like a prisoner in a jail
    You got me singing
    (Singing like my pardon's in the mail) like my pardon's in the mail

    You got me wishing
    (Wishing our little love would last) our little love would last
    You got me thinking (you got me thinking)
    (Like those people of the past) like those people of the past

    You got me singing (la, la, la)
    Even though the world is gone (even though the world is gone )
    You got me thinking
    (Thinking that I'd like to carry on) I'd like to carry on

    You got me singing
    (Singing even though it all went wrong) even though it all went wrong
    You got me singing
    (Singing the Hallelujah song) the Hallelujah song

    (Singing the Hallelujah song) Writer/s: Leonard Cohen, Patrick Leonard
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Andy Ward from UkFor me, this feels like it is sung by a man who knows his time is up and that the (natural) end of life beckons… and as there is nothing any of us can do about our own demise, the best thing to do is sing/laugh in the face of death.
    A suitable ending to a fabulous album.
  • Lily WilsonI interpret it as someone who's met someone so good, so beautiful to be around that they can't help but sing, despite being a bystander in the worlds decent by climate change, war, famine, fascists. The words 'You got me singing
    Ever since the river died' and 'Even though the world is gone' have to elude to what we're doing to our planet, what we've already lost and also that desperate beautiful hope you can find in another's heart
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