Once You Wake Up
John Popper

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And what about the times / Now I'm grabbing out at breaking glass
An attempt to find a memory / That makes it seem glorious or at least okay
But all I have is me / In a razor caught off guard as you brush by
The alarm wakes me out of bed / And the dream I was just having simply fades away

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And blindly do I see / At the sunlight I am freezing
And as I start to come around / I want to fall back to the ground
Roll over and make sense again / But its too late I am awake
And its sensation I can't fake / As I try my best to pretend

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But once you wake up / You can't just fall back asleep anymore
I know it isn't fair / But once you're aware
You can back track all you want / You can mourn for what's gone
But you're up either way / You better deal with your day

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I remember I was tired / In fact I still had some sleep in my eyes
So I got all warm and safe and numb / Figured I would lie down and rest a while
Next thing came the morning / And you're shaking me and telling me to rise
And I would tell you anything / To stall and make you think or smile or cry

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You see all I need is you / And then I start to understand what love does
Now there's so much that I can give / And I finally want to live
You know before I just didn't really ever care / And I'll do more than hold on
I want to celebrate the dawn / I don't ever want to go back to sleep I swear

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But once you wake up / You can't just fall back asleep anymore
I know it isn't fair / But once you're aware
You can back track all you want / You can mourn for what's gone
But you're up either way / You better deal with your day