page_title: So Get Up
section_title: Lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: So Get Up / Lyrics
caption_attribution_description: English: Greek-Californian artist, musician, photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas self-portrait 1991 in Pangrati - Athens, Greece Português: Artista, músico e fotógrafo grego-californiano Ithaka Darin Pappas auto-retrato 1991 em Pangrati - Atenas, Grécia Español: Artista, músico y fotógrafo grego-californiano Ithaka Darin Pappas auto-retrato 1991 en Pangrati - Atenas, Grecia Русский: Artista, музыка и фотографии Грего-Калифорниано Итака Дарин Паппас auto-retrato 1991 em Pangrati - Atenas, Grécia
context_page_description: "So Get Up", written and vocalized by Ithaka, is a 1992 spoken-word electronic dance music vocal-poem lyric song more frequently credited to the Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon, German trance music duo Cosmic Gate, the Spanish group Committee and
  London-based DJ/producers, Stretch n Vern.
  Ithaka Darin Pappas lived and recorded in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1992 to 1998. His poem "So Get Up" was written and first vocalized on December 13th of 1992 for a program called Quarto Bairro on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon. The station's radio presenter, Pedro Costa, recorded Ithaka's voice live on-air. Two months later, in March 1993, a techno-pop demo was made in Manchester, England, with a student engineer-producer. The initial 'publicly released, physically manufactured' musical element backing the poem was created in 1994 by DJ Vibe and Doctor J aka Underground Sound of Lisbon who invited Ithaka to re-record the poem as a guest vocalist on their first release.
  USL's nine-minute progressive house version of "So Get Up" appeared on the B-side of their "Chapter One" 12-inch vinyl release.
context_section_description: The end of the earth is upon us. Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust.
  So get up. Forget the past. Go outside and have a blast.
  Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane. Go out of your mind go insane.
  To a place you never been before. Eat ice cream or you'll lick the floor.
  'Cause, the end of the earth is upon us. Pretty soon it'll all turn to dust.
  Goodbye my friends. Goodbye world. I'll see you in the next life.
caption: "So Get Up" lyricist/vocalist Ithaka Darin Pappas in 1992.
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