Think I know what you’re thinking from that look on your face,
things ain’t going so easy and you want to just get away.
Might be a lot easier if you just got in some other game,
but who’s to say if you went some other place,
things wouldn’t be the same?
Anyway, you got more than enough reasons to stick around here now,
your wife and kids, their food, the car, the mortgage on the house.
I see myself in you, maybe too many years ago to tell,
and I know when I feel like that, the perspective that serves me well,
is to get up and do it again.
I get up and do it again.
And no matter how hard it gets, I just remember about them,
and I just get up, and do it again. I get up, and do it again.
I been here for a while, friend, going down this same long road,
I’m like a locomotive pulling boxcars; I got a long, heavy load.
Every one with a need; their own special dream to cultivate.
Doing the climbs, I get weary at times, and dragged down by the weight,
but still, I get up, and do it again.
I get up and do it again.
and no matter how hard it gets, I remember about them,
I just get up, and do it again. I get up and do it again.
There’s times at night, I got this pounding in my head,
There’s times in the morning I don’t want to leave my bed.
I get this aching in my back and pains that won’t go away,
With the way things can be, it’s a wonder to me, I keep going on day to day.
But I get up and do it again.
I get up and do it again.
and no matter how hard it gets I just keep remembering about them
and I get up, and do it again. Yeah, I get up and do it again.
Five jazz tracks composed by Mercury Prize-nominated composer ESKA for Hope 4 Justice, a UK youth initiative fighting climate change. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 17, 2024