Wake Up
(Words and Music by Lori Chaffer)
Adam Hutchinson – drums
Seth Jenkins – bass
Cole Crawford –piano
Lori Chaffer – voices, choir of angels
Mike Crawford – Silvertones, voices, glockenspiel
Greg Lafollette – engineer on Lori’s vocals (recorded at Woodland Studios)
lyrics
Wake Up by Lori Chaffer
the sun, the moon
the stars all began to swoon
before today the world wasn’t quite right
cause the darkness had a deep appetite
you could not see humanity
breath a sigh that all would be well
cause sometimes in the muck you can’t tell
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wake up wake up wake up baby
we’re all banking on you being a mystery
we’ll probably try to tame you
like we try to tame the sea
crazy
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and so they came
maybe they knew they were partly to blame
for all the loneliness and suffering
cause they never quite could keep themselves clean
then they found
a little baby who just made baby sounds
only a wise guy could see
it would take the innocent to set us free
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