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Wake up young man
It's time to wake up
Your love affair has got to go
For ten long years
For ten long years
The leaves to rake up
Slow suicide's no way to go
Oh
Blue clouded gray
You're not a crack up
Dizzy and weakened by the haze
Movin' onward
So an infection not a phase
Yeah oh
The cracks and lines
From where you gave up
They make an easy man to read
Oh oh, oh oh
For all the times
You let them bleed you
For a little peace from God you plead
And beg
For a little peace from God you plead
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah oh
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah oh
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah oh
Wake up young man
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Oh yeah
Wake up young man
It's time to wake up
Your love affair has got to go, yeah
For ten long years
For ten long years
The leaves the rake up
Slow suicide's no way to go oh, oh oh
Slow suicide's no way to go
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up
It's time to wake up
Your love affair has got to go
For ten long years
For ten long years
The leaves to rake up
Slow suicide's no way to go
Oh
Blue clouded gray
You're not a crack up
Dizzy and weakened by the haze
Movin' onward
So an infection not a phase
Yeah oh
The cracks and lines
From where you gave up
They make an easy man to read
Oh oh, oh oh
For all the times
You let them bleed you
For a little peace from God you plead
And beg
For a little peace from God you plead
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah oh
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah oh
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah oh
Wake up young man
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Oh yeah
Wake up young man
It's time to wake up
Your love affair has got to go, yeah
For ten long years
For ten long years
The leaves the rake up
Slow suicide's no way to go oh, oh oh
Slow suicide's no way to go
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up
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Wake Up Lyrics as written by Layne Staley Mike Mccready
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It's very unfortunate that he never got over his heroin addiction, since he died 3 years ago. And that Mad Season was very short-lived. After this album, he and Alice in Chains did 'Unplugged in New York' in '96. I'm guessing that was one of his last public experiences.
Ironically, he died the same day Kurt cobain, one of my other rock idols, died partly of a heroin overdose, (besides the gun shot wound. without the wound, kurt would have died anyway)
God bless Mad Season