This Winter I Give the Music

Intro

(da-da) Hey-ya, uh-uh

Kick the beat — stomp, clap, clap, clap

(ah-ah) Hey — yeah

Verse

Last winter I wrapped up every little piece of me

Put ribbons on the truth, tied tight, tied tight

You smiled like you meant it then turned the key

Left me in the cold, left me in the night

I danced with the echo of promises you made (oh)

Spinning on the floor where our pictures used to stay

But the DJ flipped the tape and I felt the change

Now the rhythm pulls me forward, I walk away

Pre-chorus

Light up the speakers, boom — don't look back (don't look back)

Feet on the fire, moving through the crack (through the crack)

I learned how to laugh when the world went black (oh-oh)

Now I take the beat and I take it back

Chorus

This winter I give the music all of me (all of me)

Watch me let it loose — watch me break free (break free)

Na-na-na, stomp, clap, feel the heat (feel the heat)

No more tears for what used to be

This winter I give the music all of me (all of me)

Watch me step out from everything that you took (hey)

Oh-oh — turned it up, now I run the beat (run the beat)

No more lonely in the corner of your mood

Verse

Friends on the balcony, lights under my shoes

Bassline like a promise that I finally choose (yeah)

You call from the doorway with a voice I used to know

But the mirror in the hall shows me ready to go

I spin the vinyl of a life that's mine to write

Scratch out your name with colored neon light (wait)

Every step is sharper, every laugh ignites

Turn the chorus louder, keep me in the night

Pre-chorus

Hands in the air, yeah, let the rhythm teach (teach)

Breathing in fire, out past where you reach (you reach)

I found a new language in the way the cymbals speak (oh)

Now I take the beat and I take it back

Chorus

This winter I give the music all of me (all of me)

Watch me let it loose — watch me break free (break free)

Na-na-na, stomp, clap, feel the heat (feel the heat)

No more tears for what used to be

This winter I give the music all of me (all of me)

Watch me step out from everything that you took (hey)

Oh-oh — turned it up, now I run the beat (run the beat)

No more lonely in the corner of your mood

Bridge

Beat drops — woah, woah, woah (woah)

Hands up — oh, oh, oh (oh)

Step by step, heart by heart, I grow (I grow)

Clap it out, clap it out, let it go

(da-da da-da) Uh! (da-da da-da) Hey!

Chorus

This winter I give the music all of me (all of me)

Watch me let it loose — watch me break free (break free)

Na-na-na, stomp, clap, feel the heat (feel the heat)

No more tears for what used to be

This winter I give the music all of me (all of me)

Watch me step out from everything that you took (hey)

Oh-oh — turned it up, now I run the beat (run the beat)

No more lonely in the corner of your mood

Outro

(ah-ah) Hey-ya, ah — feel the beat fade out

(da-da) Na-na — let it go, let it go