“Jump” is the lead single from Van Halen’s 10x platinum selling album 1984. The song was internationally successful, becoming Van Halen’s only #1 hit in both the US & Canada and reaching #2 in Ireland & Australia, #4 in Germany, Austria & Switzerland, and #7 in the UK.
At first, the res...
[Intro]
Ow!
[Verse 1]
I get up, and nothing gets me down
You got it tough, I've seen the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you feel
You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, can't you see me standing here?
I got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Oh, can't you see what I mean?
[Chorus]
Ah, might as well jump (Jump!)
Might as well jump
Go ahead and jump (Jump!)
Go ahead and jump
[Verse 2]
Hello! Hey, you! Who said that?
Baby, how you been?
You say you don't know
You won't know until you begin
[Pre-Chorus]
So can't you see me standing here?
I've got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Oh, can't you see what I mean?
[Chorus]
Ah, might as well jump (Jump!)
Go ahead and jump
Might as well jump (Jump!)
Go ahead and jump
[Post-Chorus]
Jump!
[Guitar Solo]
[Keyboard Solo]
[Chorus]
Might as well jump (Jump!)
Go ahead and jump
Get it and jump (Jump!)
Go ahead and jump
[Outro]
Jump
Jump
Jump
Jump
Jump was written by Michael Anthony (Bassist) & David Lee Roth & Alex Van Halen & Eddie Van Halen.
Jump was produced by Ted Templeman.
Not exactly. David Lee Roth came up with the lyric “go ahead and jump” after watching a news report about a man threatening to end his life from a building ledge. Roth imagined there was probably at least one person in the crowd thinking, “Go ahead and jump”. However, not written about suicide – the...
In 2016, when Guitar World asked Eddie Van Halen about 1984 and which song they recorded first, he responded:
That was ‘Jump.’ Once Ted heard that song, he was full-hog in. He said, ‘That’s great! Let’s go to work.’ When I first played ‘Jump’ for the band, nobody wanted to have anything to do with...