LADY GAGA – TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU

TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU

LADY GAGA

SONGWRITERS: DIANE EVE WARREN & STEFANI J. GERMANOTTA

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU

LABEL: INTERSCOPE RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2016

"Til It Happens to You" is a song produced and performed by American Singer Lady Gaga. She co-wrote the song with Diane Warren for the 2015 documentary film The Hunting Ground, which deals with campus rape in the United States. The song had leaked onto the Internet through an unofficial recording made at the film's premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was later released by Interscope Records to digital retailers on September 18, 2015. The director and producer of the film had looked for someone influential to write a song for it, and music supervisor Bonnie Greenberg contacted Warren who was interested. She wrote the song with Gaga and producer Nile Rodgers accompanied them during the recording, providing his suggestions.

A universal song about any kind of loss in life, "Til It Happens to You" was placed during two sequences in the film, highlighting the pain of sexual assault. The song consists of an orchestral production with strings, and an emotional vocal delivery from Gaga. Lyrically it asks listeners to stand in a victim's position and try to understand the turmoil they go through. "Til It Happens to You" was later included as part of a public service announcement video directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The video depicts various instances of violence against women and sexual assaults. It ends with a cautionary note about the effects of such distress, and individuals finding solace with their close friends and relatives.

You tell me it gets better, it gets better in time

You say I'll pull myself together, pull it together, you'll be fine

Tell me, what the hell do you know? What do you know?

Tell me how the hell could you know? How could you know?

Till it happens to you, you don't know how it feels, how it feels

Till it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real

No, it won't be real, won't know how it feels

You tell me hold your head up, hold your head up and be strong

'Cause when you fall you gotta get up, you gotta get up and move on

Tell me how the hell could you talk, how could you talk?

'Cause until you walk where I walk, this is no joke

Till it happens to you, you don't know how it feels, how it feels

Till it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real

(how could you know?)

No it won't be real

(how could you know?)

Won't know how I feel

Till your world burns and crashes

Till you're at the end, the end of your rope

Till you're standing in my shoes

I don't wanna hear a thing from you, from you, from you

'Cause you don't know

Till it happens to you, you don't know how I feel, how I feel

How I feel

Till it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real

(how could you know?)

No, it won't be real

(how could you know?)

Won't know how it feels

Till it happens to you

Happens to you

Happens to you

Happens to you

Happens to you

Happens to you

(how could you know?)

Till it happens to you

You won't know how I feel.