Reviews for Wake Up Lyrics

damn this is such a good song. this song talks about growing up and learning that the world is nothing we thought it was. most everyone will let us down and most everything will disappoint us. though its painful, we all need to grow up or else we can never hope to change what makes growing up painful.

If you identify with this song you're most likely a sociopath or psychopath. The odd thing to me (a healthy person with the ability to love deeply) is with the people that relate to the lyrics and recognize their emotional deformities, don't change....is it because they're only in love with themselves. Why cant you (socio/psycho-paths) fix yourself. Why cant you begin to heal and let love in?

Totally love this song. I know the original meaning of this song has nothing to do with what it means to me. I am a childhood trauma survivor with dissociative identity disorder. (used to be called Multiple personality disorder) Parts of me are still children, parts are adult. We are working toward integration. Use your imagination when you read those lyrics and you might see what it means to me.

The last stanza, "With my lightning bolts glowing..." through "You better look out below." This stanza immediately reminded me of Zeus from Greek mythology. I don't know if any one else can see where I'm coming from here, but Those words made me feel empowered. It's like he's saying "Now that i've grown up, I can now see where I stand, and I am standing a taller and stronger person because of all I've been through in the end."

I don't know, maybe my new found emotional optimism is making me take these lyrics all wrong. lol. But lyrics can mean something different to every listener, can't they?

This Touches you inside
Basically it says maybe we were lied to when we were young and were forced to grow up, but the song says go against the mistakes and stop destroying the true inner feelings and express yourself as needed.

This song (for me) was summed up by the final lyrics: "I can see where I am, go-go, where I am
You'd better look out below". Seemed like the narrator is suggesting that they're hell-bound. Great song no matter what the meaning though.

When I first read the lyrics to this song - it felt like being slapped in the face with reality.

When I was just a little girl, I was told so many times to stop crying by my parents - told me it was a sign of weakness.

I had troubles accepting that crying is normal for years, until now.

Thank you, Arcade Fire.

When I was a child the world was bigger and when I cried i've been told not to cry,my parents would cheer me up.once I grow older ,the world is not the same,every routine becomes boring,falling out off a relationship made me feel miserable and the world just wasn't the same as when I was a child.I see children and I tell them to enjoy it and I have fun with them and then I feel nostalgia and I become a child.it's me,my mind,my body and my point of view.look at them and smile and in your mind say "damn,do I envy you little one!"

you may grow older but it doesn't stop.even if we are obligated to earn and work.

This song is definitely about growing up and losing faith, and some of your humanity in the process. The lyrics about a heart filled up with nothing, colder, and torn up are all about how as we grow older we become disenchanted with the world, be it through dissapointment with your career, relationships, a societal system you dont want to oppress you (That's what all their other songs are about).

He also tells us to be fully expressed, with 'the lie' being that we shouldn't cry, and that we should hold our 'mistakes' and shortcomings and failings up rather than wondering why we don't all have the lives we want.

The best part is the 'gods' references throughout. He says we're all gods, because of our autonomy. With our 'lightning bolts' (zeus) we can forsee our deaths, and we are the only species that has that ability. We're all gods, because we can think and act, and that should be enough to liberate us from growing old and bitter.

One of the best written songs I've ever seen, really amazing. The chorus melody is just a primal sound that wraps the whole thing up, seeing them perform it live makes it clear, just live.

peaceeeeee

its about a re-awakening of the human spirit that you had as a child. As you grow up you lose it, your heart grows colder. We were little gods, but it was taken from us by people telling us we are "turning every good thing into rust." So we adjust to become grown ups, and we lose ourselves in a spirit crushing world that we are told is reality.

There is always that first moment as children where we learn that things can hurt us, and that we wont always have a shoulder to cry on. I remember being 4 years old, and my grandfather telling me I was a whiny punk. It was probably true, but to me it marked the moment I realized people who loved you could also sometimes hurt you.

I cried in my bedroom alone.

To me this song is about that very thing. We start as innocent, and then learn that life can hurt, and from there we spend a life time learning how to cover up and defend our hearts to cope with life's hurts. It's the ones who can't uncover their hearts to allow for love who need to be woken up.

None can really tell but the writters, but seems prety obvius its about growing up, learning about oneself, and how to deal with your own feelings.
PD: If you relay on religion be aware of the priest´s boners.

I absolutely love the Chorus/chant, at the beginning. Something about the progression/execution can almost bring tears to your eyes.

As for "morning wood", "wet dreams" and puberty. Uh, I think not...I believe this song goes a bit deeper than that. That could be a sick, unrealistic interp...But, we all have our own,, Aye.

Wow, what a variety of interpretations of the lyrics; great writing naturally invites a variety or responses! I think this song is about growing up, the bad advice we sometimes get from our parents, and how we can liberate ourselves from it.

This is an equally beautiful and tragic song by Arcade Fire, written by Win and Will Butler years before they actually started the band. It deals with the transformation from adolescence to adulthood through that troubling and liberating thing called "puberty." The song's title, in fact, contains a double meaning. It can be read as referring to "morning wood," or it can be linked to a "wet dream." Both of these correlate with the music, though the former is more likely. "You better look out below" is often misread (and sometimes changed in live versions of the song) to "you better look out FOR LOVE." Thinking of the song as a story about a child waking up with a boner, the latter is actually precisely the way the song should end, offering a context and content that both form a subtle yet inspiring ending to a gorgeous song.