There's only so much you can learn in one place
The more that I wait, the more time that I waste
I haven't got much time to waste
It's time to make my way
I'm not afraid of what I'll face
But I'm afraid to stay
I'm going down my own road
And I can make it alone
I'll work and I'll fight
Till I find a place of my own
Are you ready to jump
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to jump
We learned our lesson from the start, my sisters and me
The only thing you can depend on is your family
And life's gonna drop you down like the limbs of a tree
It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see
Are you ready to jump
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to, are you ready
There's only so much you can learn in one place
The more that you wait, the more time that you waste
I'll work and I'll fight till I find a place of my own
It sways and it swings and it bends until you make it your own
I can make it alone (7x)
(My sisters and me, my sisters and me)
Are you ready to jump
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to jump
Are you ready to jump
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to, are you ready
Credits
Written by Madonna, Joe Henry and Stuart Price
Produced by Madonna and Stuart Price
Jump was released as the fourth and last single from the album Confessions
On A Dance Floor on November 6th (UK) / 7th (US). The maxi-single
features the previously unreleased track History
as B-Single. It also contains remixes by Axwell, Junior Sanchez
and Jacques Lu Cont. Jump became Madonna's unprecedented 37th #1
on the Hot Dance / Club Play chart. In the UK it debuted at #59,
then jumped to #9, making it her 59th UK Top 10 hit. Unfortunately it didn't enter the Billboard Hot 100, just the Bubbling Under chart, reaching #5. » Buy on Amazon
Video
The
video was filmed mid-September 2006 in Tokyo, Japan with the direction
of longtime collaborator Jonas Akerlund. The video premiered on
AOL on October 5th. It shows Madonna's dancers running in the city
of Tokyo and jumping from buildings and ramps, similar to the parkour
dancing on the Confessions
Tour. Madonna's part was filmed in a studio, where she's seen
singing while kicking and fighting. She's sporting a platinum blonde
bob wig and wearing a black fighting jacket. »
Watch the video on our blog
Tour
"Ladies
& Gentlemen, thank you for coming to our little show! The night
is young and the show has just begun!" That was usually the
intro Madonna gave for the Confessions
Tour performance of Jump, which features special parkour dancers
(and Cloud) running and jumping on and off runways and rails on
the catwalk. Madonna, on the other hand just walks around the stage
singing the song while the screens show tall buidings, used for
parkour. At the end of the performance, Madonna does a roll on one
of the rails then goes offstage while the talented dancers give
their all during an extended ending.