Matt Shadows their lead singer says the song was written as per request from the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Watching the initial trailers for the game & looking at production sketches reminded him of the 'S-Town' podcast & its main protagonist, John B. McLemore. Matt also comments specifically on the lyrics: "I decided that the lyrics would shadow McLemore's life." In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show 'This American Life' asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails & several months of conversation with McLemore, producer Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock to investigate. Reed investigated the crime & eventually found that no such murder took place, though he struck up a friendship with the depressed but colorful character of McLemore. He recorded conversations with McLemore & other people in Woodstock. McLemore killed himself by drinking potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015 while the podcast was still in production. In the narrative of the podcast, this occurs at the end of the second episode; subsequent episodes deal with the fallout from McLemore's death while exploring more of McLemore's life & character.
I was walking ‘round, trying to put it down in total darkness
Didn't feel the need to get on my knees
What's this you're talking?
No one could tell me nothing that helped me out before
But when the sunlight came and stopped the rain
I was standing with the Lord Can you feel the joy
Don't it make you want to jump, jump, jump
Don't it make you want to move, move, move
Throw your hands to the roof, roof,
roof Kids are killing kids, no one wants
to live, love's on the down low
Now what's up with that, let's get back on track
Straight to the rainbow
You've gotta know that God is always by your side
If you're feeling down, look around
Just enjoy your life Can you feel the joy, don't it make you
Don't it make you want to jump, jump,
jump You've gotta know that God is always by your side
So when you're feeling down, look around
Just enjoy your life Can you feel the
joy, don't it make you want to
Throw your hands up to the roof Jump,
jump, jump (don't it make you want to)
Jump, jump, jump (don't it make you want to)
Jump, jump, jump (don't it make you want to)
Don't it make you want to move
Didn't feel the need to get on my knees
What's this you're talking?
No one could tell me nothing that helped me out before
But when the sunlight came and stopped the rain
I was standing with the Lord Can you feel the joy
Don't it make you want to jump, jump, jump
Don't it make you want to move, move, move
Throw your hands to the roof, roof,
roof Kids are killing kids, no one wants
to live, love's on the down low
Now what's up with that, let's get back on track
Straight to the rainbow
You've gotta know that God is always by your side
If you're feeling down, look around
Just enjoy your life Can you feel the joy, don't it make you
Don't it make you want to jump, jump,
jump You've gotta know that God is always by your side
So when you're feeling down, look around
Just enjoy your life Can you feel the
joy, don't it make you want to
Throw your hands up to the roof Jump,
jump, jump (don't it make you want to)
Jump, jump, jump (don't it make you want to)
Jump, jump, jump (don't it make you want to)
Don't it make you want to move
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Jump, Jump, Jump Lyrics as written by Joseph Priolo Errol C. Johnson
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