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Artist: George Clinton
Canonical path: /george-clinton/wake-up
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Wake Up
Read Wake Up lyrics by George Clinton on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Wake Up
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You got to wake up
You're in the presence of your future
Wake up
See what you're doing in our sleep
You got to wake up
You're in the presence of your future
Wake up
From the mistakes of the past
From time to time we come alive
But not for very long
See what shape the world is in
And wonder what went wrong
Never dreaming, not for a second
That sleeping is the cause
We make solutions in our sleep
It's dangerous for us all
Wake up
You're in the presence of your future
Wake up
See what we're doing in our sleep
Wake up
You're in the presence of your future
Wake up
From the mistakes of our past
In our sleep, we live it up
Just to wake up and find our dead
Change our hair and hairstyles too
But have the same empty heads
Brothers and sisters I'm telling you
This is what we've got to do
Wake up
You got to wake up
Oh, wake up (doo doo doo doo doo, da da da)
Wake up
You got to wake up (they don't have to?)
Oh, wake up
You've got to wake up
Oh, wake up
You've got to wake up
Wake up
You're in the presence of your future
Wake up
See what you're doing in our sleep
Wake up
You're in the presence of your future
Wake up
See what you're doing in our sleep
In our sleep, we change our wife????
We change our suit of clothes
We change our church, we change our god
But have the same funky soul
Never dreaming, not for a second
Sleeping is the cause
Oh, wake up
You've got to wake up
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