You Got Rick Rolled

Started by Ha-HaGuy | 1 contributor
updated 2 months ago

I'll try to explain. Rick Astley was a blue-eyed soul singer in the late 80s. His best-known song was "Never Gonna Give You Up" in 1987. It's a really catchy tune. An online joke has emerged where you embed a link to the song's video on YouTube, but disguise it as something else. Usually you wrap it in some text proclaiming the link to be something useful or relevant. When users clicks on the link, they are bombed with this catchy number. They are also shamed into being "Rick Rolled."

Never Gonna Give You Up

The lyrics for the text version of the Rick Roll

Were no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do i
A full commitments what Im thinking of
You wouldnt get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how Im feeling
Gotta make you understand

* never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Weve know each other for so long
Your hearts been aching
But youre too shy to say it
Inside we both know whats been going on
We know the game and were gonna play it

And if you ask me how Im feeling
Dont tell me youre too blind to see
(* repeat)

Give you up. give you up
Give you up, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, give you up

Never gonna give
Never gonna give, give you up

I just wanna tell you how Im feeling
Gotta make you understand