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You Get What You Give Lyrics
by  New Radicals


New Radicals - You Get What You Give Lyrics
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One, two
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One, two, three, ow
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Wake up, kids
+
We got the dreamers disease
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Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees
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So polite, we're busy still saying please
+
Frienemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
+
Every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz
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First we run, and then we laugh 'til we cry
+
But when the night is falling
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You cannot find the light (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
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We only get what we give
+
I'm comin' home, baby
+
You're tops
+
Give it to me now
+
4 AM, we ran a miracle mile
+
We're flat broke
+
But hey, we do it in style
+
The bad rich
+
God's flying in for your trial
+
But when the night is falling
+
You cannot find a friend (friend)
+
You feel your tree is breaking
+
Just bend
+
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
+
This whole damn world could fall apart
+
You'll be okay, follow your heart
+
You're in harm's way, I'm right behind
+
Now say you're mine
+
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
+
Don't let go
+
I feel the music in you
+
Don't let go
+
Fly high, high
+
What's real can't die
+
You only get what you give
+
You're gonna get what you give
+
Don't give up
+
Just don't be afraid to leave
+
Health insurance, rip off lying
+
FDA, big bankers buying
+
Fake computer crashes dining
+
Cloning while they're multiplying
+
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
+
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
+
You're all fakes
+
Run to your mansions
+
Come around, we'll kick your asses
+
Don't let go
+
One dance left
+
Don't give up
+
Can't forget
+
Don't let go
+
[Unspoken lyrics from liner]
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Championed by a soulless media misleading
+
People unaware they're bleeding
+
No one with a brain is believing
+
It's so sad you lost the meaning
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Never knew it anyway
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English

One, two
+
One, two, three, ow
+
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
+
Frienemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
+
Every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz
+
First we run, and then we laugh 'til we cry
+
But when the night is falling
+
You cannot find the light (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
+
I'm comin' home, baby
+
You're tops
+
Give it to me now
+
4 AM, we ran a miracle mile
+
We're flat broke
+
But hey, we do it in style
+
The bad rich
+
God's flying in for your trial
+
But when the night is falling
+
You cannot find a friend (friend)
+
You feel your tree is breaking
+
Just bend
+
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
+
This whole damn world could fall apart
+
You'll be okay, follow your heart
+
You're in harm's way, I'm right behind
+
Now say you're mine
+
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
+
Don't let go
+
I feel the music in you
+
Don't let go
+
Fly high, high
+
What's real can't die
+
You only get what you give
+
You're gonna get what you give
+
Don't give up
+
Just don't be afraid to leave
+
Health insurance, rip off lying
+
FDA, big bankers buying
+
Fake computer crashes dining
+
Cloning while they're multiplying
+
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
+
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
+
You're all fakes
+
Run to your mansions
+
Come around, we'll kick your asses
+
Don't let go
+
One dance left
+
Don't give up
+
Can't forget
+
Don't let go
+
[Unspoken lyrics from liner]
+
Championed by a soulless media misleading
+
People unaware they're bleeding
+
No one with a brain is believing
+
It's so sad you lost the meaning
+
Never knew it anyway
+
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Writer: Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group, BMG Rights Management

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You Get What You Give

"You Get What You Give" is a song by American alternative rock band New Radicals. It was the first and most successful single from their only studio album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (1998).

Released on November 3, 1998, it reached number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Outside the US, it reached number five in the United Kingdom, number four in Ireland, and number one in Canada and New Zealand.

In the liner notes to her 2004 compilation Artist's Choice, the Canadian songwriter Joni Mitchell praised "You Get What You Give" for "rising from the swamp of 'McMusic' like a flower of hope".

In 2006, Ice-T was asked on Late Night with Conan O'Brien about what he has heard, besides rap music, in the last few years that really grabbed him and his only reply was "You Get What You Give".

In a Time interview, U2 lead guitarist the Edge is quoted saying "You Get What You Give" is the song he is "most jealous of. I really would love to have written that."

Much of the media attention "You Get What You Give" received centered on the closing lyrics:
"Health insurance, rip-off lying
FDA, big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson,
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes, run to your mansions
Come around, we'll kick your ass in."

According to lead singer Gregg Alexander, he had written this section for the song as a test to see whether the media would focus on the important political issues of the first few lines, or the petty celebrity-dissing. As suspected, a considerable amount of press began to appear about the name-dropping, and the other political issues were largely ignored.

Marilyn Manson commented that he was "not mad he said he'd kick my ass, I just don't want to be used in the same sentence with Courtney Love... I'll crack his [Alexander's] skull open if I see him."

Beck reported that Alexander personally apologized for the line when they met each other by chance in a supermarket, claiming that it was never meant to be personal.

Alexander collaborated with Hanson, whose drummer, Zac Hanson, called him "a bit of a character, but a cool guy."
Performed by: New Radicals
From Album: Scooby-Doo 2
Genre(s): One Hit Wonder
Language: English
Length: 5:00
Written by: Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels
Released: November 3rd, 1998
Year: 1998
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