Track on Tuesday: Ho Hey

Album: The Lumineers

Artist: The Lumineers

Genre: Indie/Folk

Label: Dualtone

Released: 3 April 2012

My Review: I first heard Ho Hey on an iHeartRadio station. (Do you have the iHeartRadio app? It’s free and it’s pretty sweet) Anyways, as the story often goes with radio, I wasn’t paying very close attention to what I was listening to.  I heard it, thought I had heard it on television before and moved on.  Then the other day I really listened to it.  Listened to the words, and the simplicity of the music, and I just sort of . . . fell in love a little bit.  The lyrics really got to me on this one.  You know how people say that sometimes they feel like a song was written about them, or a character in a book is them?  That is how I feel about this song.  I punctures my heart, and I love every blasted minute of it.  And I love the part in the music video when the light bulb is smashed, I don’t know why but I think it’s beautiful.

(Ho!) I've been trying to do it right
(Hey!) I've been living a lonely life
(Ho!) I've been sleeping here instead
(Hey!)I've been sleeping in my bed,
(Ho!) I've been sleeping in my bed (Hey!)

(Ho!)

(Ho!) So show me family
(Hey!) All the blood that I would 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!)

1,2,3 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!)

(ho!) I don't think you're right for him
(hey!) Look at what it might have been if you
(ho!) Took a bus to Chinatown
(hey!) I've been standing on Canal
(ho!) And Bowery (hey!)
(ho!) And she'd be standing next to me (hey!)

1,2,3 I belong with you you belong with me you're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me you're my sweetheart

And love, we need it now
Let's hope for some
Cause oh, we're bleeding 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!)