So, (I do so hate the way many young people, (and some not so young) start a sentence with SO!).
So, there I was, all research done, everything sketched out, all ready to present my choice for Helen’s latest SLS theme of “Speak” when this fantastic song came on the TV to accompany a scene in a rerun of “Bones”.
I had no choice, I simply had to share this with you! I’d never heard it before, didn’t know the group, it has nothing whatsoever to do with “speak”, apart from the fact that it spoke to me. It’s lovely, it’s fun, it’s now on my playlist, and I have to listen to more of the group’s work.
What is it?
It’s Ho Hey by The Lumineers
Ho Hey
Ho
Hey
Ho
Hey
I been trying to do it right
(Hey) I been living a lonely life
(Ho) I been sleepin’ here instead
(Hey) I been sleepin’ in my bed
(Ho) I been sleepin’ in my bed (hey ho)
so show me family
(Hey) all the blood that I will bleed
(Ho) I don’t know where I belong
(Hey) I don’t know where I went wrong
(Ho) but I can write a song (hey)
I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweet’ (ho)
Hey (come on now)
Ho
Hey
I don’t think you’re right for him
(Hey) think of what it might have been if we
(Ho) took a bus to chinatown
(Hey) I’d be standin’ on canal (ho) and Bowery (hey)
(Ho) she’d be standin’ next to me (hey)
I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweetheart
Love we, need it now
Let’s hope, for some
‘Cause oh, we’re bleedin’ out
I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweet'(ho)
Hey
Ho
Hey
Songwriters: Jeremy Fraites / Wesley Schultz
Ho Hey lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
I do so hope it worked out for them in the end!
