| | Wake Up Lyrics Artist(Band):The Arcade Fire
my heart with nothin', someone told me not to cry. But now that I'm older, my heart's colder, and I can see that it's a lie. Children wake up, hold your mistake up, before they turn the summer into dust. If the children don't grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up. We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms turnin' every good thing to rust. I guess we'll just have to adjust. With my lightnin' bolts a glowin' I can see where I am goin' to be when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand. With my lightnin' bolts a glowin' I can see where I am goin’ With my lightnin' bolts a glowin' I can see where I am, go-go, where I am You'd better look out below If you find some error in Wake Up Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to catscanned57@yahoo.com for submitting the lyrics. Review about Wake Up A song about human transformation | Reviewer: Dave | 11/20/09 Have you seen the Glastonbury 2007 version on youtube? Where the trumpets come in at the intro? Wow. I would say the underlying theme of this song is one of human transformation - i.e. growing up but growing up well. The reference to the heart growing colder as we try and survive in a world of insecurity and ego, the heart filling up with nothing as a comment on how we create ourselves inauthentic characters with which to meet the world. And then the call to arms, to the children and us (therefore the parents) to hold our mistake up, become aware of the authentic self and therefore the falseness we have brought with us. And then the turning point, beautifully understated, is "I guess we''ll have to adjust". And from that point on, from that palce of self-knowing and awareness of the character phoneyness that holds us back, our lightning bolts glow and we can see where we are going. look out below, therefore, is a joyful warning to those not necessarily in hell but those who are making no attempt to rise above the locked-in world of the unaware - i.e. the automatons we all share this world with. Grown Child | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/12/09 With my lightnin' bolts a glowin' I can see where I am goin’ With my lightnin' bolts a glowin' I can see where I am, go-go, where I am You'd better look out below You mustn't forget the conclusion of this song- the warning shout of "You'd better look out below!"; it is a shout of triumph, of life, not of lament for a lost childhood. It is a reclamation of this life, a will to pull lightning from the sky and live on, looking death in the eyes and observing the world with electricity and vigor from that position man has always attributed to fantasy, the place in the clouds, the will for conquering life and pulling lightning bolts from the sky representing the child's determination to pull all it can from the world, the notion of death not forgotten but instead accepted, the innocent thirst for life-force never quenched by fear or monotony, and that final call to the world, a warning of the being soon to traverse it-- and live! My Job | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/1/09 Well I was a Fire Fighter, but this song and that book alone(once forgotten with my childhood along with many other things) Has Set Me To Become an elementary school teacher. I always wanted to be one and I love kids and my childhood was so misled and just idk whack that I want to teach children. Deep Emotions in the book and In this song about childhood, so yea Awesome Song I Love It! beautiful, unique song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/24/09 i heard this song years ago, and just like many of you i was overwhelmed with emotion. then i forgot about it until it heard it in the Where the Wild Things Are trailer....and i remembered and now every time i hear it, it still brings up something in me. i totally agree about the losing the innocence of childhood motif suggested by many of you. being an adult..i never realized how incredible my childhood was, and how truly happy. i fear i will never feel that way again. Beautiful to the core | Reviewer: Cindy | 10/19/09 The first time i heard this song i welled up inside with a feeling so strong i coulnd't have experienced it any other way but because of this song. Rarely does a song make me want to break down in tears unless i am already down and out for one reason or another. But this song doesn't make you sad, but you relate to everything the lyrics are trying to convey to you. They're tears of understanding Music is meant for you! | Reviewer: Steph | 10/15/09 Don't get caught up in what this means. It means what you interpret it to..for you. To one person it could be dark to another light. That is the beauty of music..to let it speak to your soul. I'm sure the author of this didnt want to sway someone in their beliefs...but to just put it out there for the taking. This is a beautiful song. If the message was anti-christian, thats not how I'll take it.(never crossed my mind until I read that other review) I CHOOSE for it to be beautiful about the fleeting innocence of childhood..and thats how it will always be to me when I'm jammin out to it! I love Jesus and I really like this song :) love it. | Reviewer: pete | 10/15/09 this song seems to be about growing up and losing your innocence, at least to me. why else would producers use it for the movie? I Love This Song! i didnt think all this religious stuff is necessary, it seems a little over analytical. Check out The Beta Band - "Dry The Rain" | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/14/09 Check out The Beta Band "Dry The Rain" if you dig this tune. It's the song from a scene in High Fidelity in the record store and it's pretty similar in build and emotion. Actually, if you like Arcade Fire you may very well enjoy The Beta Band. Too bad they broke up :( Evokes emotion indeed! | Reviewer: Sheila | 10/14/09 The first time I heard this song it just stirred up all sorts of emotions. Not only the lyrics, but just the music in general, it evokes this sense of longing for something (innocence?) It's interesting because until today I didn't know the lyrics and had just heard the song. I thought instead of "I can see that it's a lie" I thought it said 'I can't see it's alright'. And I took it to mean that because 'I' was told not to cry, now I don't know that it's okay to cry. And in the end when they say "I can see where I am goin'" I thought they said 'I can't...'. (Which is the point in the song which I totally broke down and sobbed for about 10 minutes)I am a senior in high school, and I am totally lost. The path up ahead is obscured in darkness and mystery and I really can't see where I am going. And I am realizing that I am not entirely a child anymore...and that is a devastating thought, that is the uncertainty of what is up ahead. The loss of innocence is a universally melancholy subject because we all can relate. Because, we have all gone through this, some sooner than others. Music is a piece of art, and people interpret it all sorts of ways. And I find funny that even though I heard the lyrics different that what they were, I still got the message that the actual lyrics convey. That at some point we gonna grow up. And it hurts, but we have to accept it...it's gonna happen no matter what. "elitism vs acrade fire" follow up | Reviewer: oxygen | 10/7/09 stella.... i gotta give it to you. reading your review and refuting whoever the hell it was talking shit about this song and arcade fire only made me love this song even more. that person is some stuck-up ignorant POS who has their head too far up their own ass to notice something as beautiful as this. Props to stella....2 thumbs way up if i had more i'd give em to ya Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Review the song Wake Up The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "The Arcade Fire" Music | |
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