Story Behind The Song

This was written for a friend, Joanne Schweitzer, who was diagnosed recently with stage IV breast cancer. She was having a difficult time shaking off the inertia that comes from having already gone a couple rounds with cancer, and needed a boost to get he

Song Description

A fierce, determined exhortation of empowerment for those facing an exhausting road of travail and hardship.

Lyrics

Get Up (for Joanne S) (Nita Hope/Rhonda Stamm/Millie Glaser/Diane Stone)
?You can find your way
Even in the dark?

Maybe you think you think you don?t know what you?re doin?
Maybe you think it?s jes a waste of time
Maybe you laid out from all this fightin?
Maybe you jes lookin? for a sign
To get up
Hmmmmm

Signs are hard to see in this confusion
Everything could turn upon a dime
Sometimes life is all about illusion
Maybe now is not the time
To give up
Give up
Hmmmmm


Gods of Irony workin? you over
You know what this takes
Caught between a rock and a hard place
Only you know what you?re feelin?
You got to trust yourself
You know what to do
Better than anyone else

The time will come for makin' your own choices
The time wiil come for makin? your own way
The time has come to block out other voices
Time to hear just what you have to say.
so
get up
get up
get up

Lately all the news is bad you?re getting?
Lately you can?t catch a single break
Lately all the noise if filled with frettin?
Lately you are wonderin? if fate
Says
Give up
Give up

Maybe there is somethin? ?round the corner
Maybe there is hope beneath the pain
Maybe you can take it a little longer
Maybe that?s salvation through your veins
Get up