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Wake Up

Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
edited October 2003 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Wake up young man, it's time
To wake up
Your love affair has got to go
For 10 long years the leaves
To rake up
Slow suicide's no way to go
Blue, clouded grey
You're not a crack up
Dizzy and weakened by the haze
Moving onward
So an infection not a phase
The cracks and lines from
Where you gave up
They make an easy man to read
For all the times you let them
Bleed you
For little peace from God you plead
And beg
For a little peace from God you plead

By Layne Staley

I just love this song!
Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
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  • Gossard_Is_GodGossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    One of the best songs ive ever heard.
    Pearl Jam - London Astoria 20/4/06....One hell of a night :)

    Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!

    Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing

    Wembley 2007 :D
  • setaside2setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    I still turn to that song as well as the rest of the Mad Season album when there is a need to do so.

    If you get my meaning.
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • viggs20viggs20 Posts: 1,296
    One of Staley's greatest vocal performance.
    "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin & Hobbes.

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  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by setaside2
    I still turn to that song as well as the rest of the Mad Season album when there is a need to do so.

    If you get my meaning.


    I Don't Know Anything!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • setaside2setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    Ah a Taoist.

    Excellent.
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • sometimesIfallsometimesIfall Posts: 7
    Wow! I was just drifting through this part of the message pit and read the words to the song posted. It really hit me! "Slow suicide's no way to go" "the cracks and lines from where you gave up" - how potent are those words! Forgive my ignorance but Layne Stanley - is ...... Alice in Chains? yes? I'll have to try and get the CD. Thanks. While I'm here, just got to say, while I am a focused person in life, I like control in my environment, my thoughts do tend to become hazy like I have a permanent writer's block. I know that doesn't fit in with what I've just said about being focused but that's how it seems. I love lyrics and poems and reading about people's thoughts on this board. I am no good in expressing what I feel and think and that's why other people's words and thoughts are magical to read. Some people just have a gift with their words.
    Just a little time, before we leave .....
  • sometimesIfallsometimesIfall Posts: 7
    Ooops, my apologies - Layne Staley (I thought it was Stanley).
    Just a little time, before we leave .....
  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by sometimesIfall
    Wow! I was just drifting through this part of the message pit and read the words to the song posted. It really hit me! "Slow suicide's no way to go" "the cracks and lines from where you gave up" - how potent are those words! Forgive my ignorance but Layne Stanley - is ...... Alice in Chains? yes? I'll have to try and get the CD. Thanks. While I'm here, just got to say, while I am a focused person in life, I like control in my environment, my thoughts do tend to become hazy like I have a permanent writer's block. I know that doesn't fit in with what I've just said about being focused but that's how it seems. I love lyrics and poems and reading about people's thoughts on this board. I am no good in expressing what I feel and think and that's why other people's words and thoughts are magical to read. Some people just have a gift with their words.

    Yes Lane Staley of Alice In Chains. However, this song comes from the album Above by Mad Season. And it would be an excellent addition to your collection.

    Some people do have a gift with their words but that doesn't mean that because you express yours in a different way that it is any less magical. If you feel it, write it. If nobody likes it, it doesn't matter as long as you do. No harm done. You may find that your words ARE magical to some others---never underestimate yourself!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • sometimesIfallsometimesIfall Posts: 7
    :) Thanks.
    Just a little time, before we leave .....
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