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I wake up every evening, with a big smile on my face
And it never feels out of place

And you're still probably working at a 9 to 5 pace
I wonder how bad that tastes

When you see my face hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell

Now where's your picket fence love
And where's that shiny car,
And did it ever get you far

You've never seem so tense love
I've never seen you fall so hard,
Do you know where you are

And truth be told I miss you
And truth be told I'm lying

When you see my face hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
If you find a man that's worth a damn and treats you well
Then he's a fool, you're just as well hope it gives you hell

Hope it gives you hell

Tomorrow you'll be thinking to yourself
Where'd it all go wrong, the list goes on and on

And truth be told I miss you
And truth be told I'm lying

When you see my face hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
If you find a man that's worth a damn and treats you well
Then he's a fool, you're just as well hope it gives you hell

Now you'll never see, what you've done to me
You can take back your memories they're no good to me
And here are all your lies,
You can look me in the eyes
With that sad sad look that you wear so well

When you see my face hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
If you find a man that's worth a damn and treats you well
Then he's a fool, you're just as well hope it gives you hell

When you see my face hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
When you hear this song and you sing along oh you'll never tell
Then you're the fool, I'm just as well
Hope it gives you hell
When you hear this song I hope that it will give you hell
You can sing along I hope that it puts you through hell
song info:
Verified yes
LanguageEnglish
Rank
Duration00:04:01
Charts
Copyright ©Universal Music Publishing Group
WriterNick Don Wheeler, Tyson V. Ritter
Lyrics licensed byLyricFind
AddedOctober 25th, 2008
Last updatedMarch 6th, 2022
About"Gives You Hell" is a song by American rock band The All-American Rejects, released as the lead single from their third studio album When the World Comes Down on September 30, 2008.

The song is The All-American Rejects' most successful song to date, receiving positive reviews and topping the Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40 charts as well as peaking at #4 on the Hot 100 chart. It was certified RIAA 4x Platinum for 4 million shipments.

The song received favourable reviews from music critics. About.com rated the track 4 out of 5 stars and described it as a "soulful groove", saying "The lyrics are filled with a cleverly snarky attitude. The attitude of 'Dirty Little Secret' is here in full force, and you will likely find yourself singing along", while Digital Spy, who rated the track 3 out of 5 stars, described it as "Sum 41-style guitars and a cheery sing along outro, it certainly isn't innovative, but as many of their contemporaries have begun dabbling in politics and darker musical styles, there's a certain charm to the band's blissful ignorance of changing fashions."

Billboard compared the sound of the track to Queen's "We Will Rock You".

In the United States, "Gives You Hell" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at position #69 and climbed steadily for seven weeks before breaking into the Top 10 at position #10, giving the band their third Top 10 hit on the chart, before eventually peaking at #4 on hot 100 and #1 on POP chart,, making "Gives You Hell" The All-American Rejects' most successful single to date and their first Top 5 hit, remaining in the charts for 36 weeks before it was retired. It spent 14 consecutive weeks in the Top 10, including 5 weeks in the Top 5.

The song eventually topped the US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream chart in March 2009, and followed on to reach the top spot of the US Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks the following May, making "Gives You Hell" the band's first ever #1 on any music chart to date. Internationally, the track became The All-American Rejects' best-selling single, reaching the Top 5 in Canada and Australia and the Top 20 in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand by early 2009.

In late 2009, Billboard announced that "Gives You Hell" was the most played song of that year on their Top 40 chart. The song also became the 42nd biggest selling rock song of the 21st century in the United Kingdom.

The music video for "Gives You Hell" was directed by Marc Webb and shot in October 2008 in California and was released a month later on November 3. It revolves around two alter egos of lead singer and bassist Tyson Ritter - one as a traditional family man and the other as a lay-about nocturnal garage band singer (the band of which is made up of the other members of The All-American Rejects) - as neighbour's annoying and pulling pranks on each other due to their different lifestyles and behaviour's, while scenes of the band themselves performing the song as the garage band are overlapped through the video.

A second version was later released in January 2009, primarily featuring an extended version of the performance scene from the first.

In an interview with MTV about the video, Ritter said "The video basically pits one neighbour against another terrible neighbour, who lives on a completely opposite schedule. He's not on the grid - he's not on, like the song says, 'a 9-to-5 pace.' And this guy's living the cookie-cutter life, with his white picket fence, and his wife who brings him lemonade when he's washing the car, So it's kind of like the clash of those worlds; only at the end, there's kind of a twist, where the two worlds kind of flip-flop."

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