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Get Up

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Get Up Lyrics

Sleep delays my life (get up, get up)
Where does time go? (get up, get up, get up)
I don't know
Sleep, sleep, sleepy head (get up, get up, get up)
Wake it up...up (get up, get up)
You've got all your life (way up ahead)
Get up, get up, get up

Dreams they complicate my life
(Dreams they complement my life)

I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up)
I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up)
Life is rough...rough (get up, get up, get up)
I've seen you laying down (get up)
With the loving kind (get up, get up)
I know life is hard...hard (where goes your time?)
Where now? Where to turn? Where to turn?

Dreams they complicate my life
(Dreams they complement my life)

Dreamtime...

Dreams they complicate my life
(Dreams they complement my life)
This time, no escape, I wake up (get up, get up)
Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up

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xpankfrisst On Jun 14, 2002

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2002-06-14 22:23:32

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by sleepingbag

21y ago

telling a friend to stop trying to sleep away his troubles...get up and face them

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by simsfreq

20y ago

Heehe wow this song is me

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by rockman

20y ago

Just wanting to be sedentary and live a peaceful life, when others want to shake things up and make changes.

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by laocoon

20y ago

stipe calls this his favorite song on the tourfilm dvd

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by androgybunny

20y ago

This song is about Mike Mills.

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by Ccorko

13y ago

Dreams complicate my life too Mike... I feel you.

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by cosumel

13y ago

It's funny that I take the opposite interpretation from the rest.
I always saw it from a point of view of a person that sees sleep as a waste of time, dreams just a complication, "There's time for sleep when I'm dead" kind of attitude.

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by exobscura

10y ago

THIS SONG IS ABOUT THE MEETING BETWEEN THE BAND, DAVID BOWIE AND IGGY POP DURING SOME 'DOWN TIME' ON TOUR. THE EXHAUSTION OF TOURING AND BEING 'FRIENDLY' WAS TAKING ITS TOLL ON DAVE BERRY. DAVID BOWIE RELAYED SOME COUTEOUS ADVICE VIA THE MENTORING OF BRIAN ENO.

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