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Woke Up This Morning Lyrics
You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One.
She said: You're one in a million
You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.
You woke up this morning
All the love has gone,
Your Papa never told you
About right and wrong.
But you're looking good, baby,
I believe you're feeling fine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes.
You woke up this morning
The world turned upside down,
Thing's ain't been the same
Since the Blues walked into town.
But you're one in a million
You've got that shotgun shine.
Born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.
When you woke up this morning everything you had was
gone. By half past ten your head was going ding-dong.
Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes,
like a voice telling you there was something you should
know. Last night you were flying but today you're so low
- ain't it times like these that make you wonder if
you'll ever know the meaning of things as they appear to
the others; wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and
brothers. Don't you wish you didn't function, wish you
didn't think beyond the next paycheck and the next little
drink' Well you do so make up your mind to go on, 'cos
when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
Mama said you'd be the Chosen One.
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
You got yourself a gun.
Got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One.
You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.
All the love has gone,
Your Papa never told you
About right and wrong.
I believe you're feeling fine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes.
The world turned upside down,
Thing's ain't been the same
Since the Blues walked into town.
You've got that shotgun shine.
Born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.
gone. By half past ten your head was going ding-dong.
Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes,
like a voice telling you there was something you should
know. Last night you were flying but today you're so low
- ain't it times like these that make you wonder if
you'll ever know the meaning of things as they appear to
the others; wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and
brothers. Don't you wish you didn't function, wish you
didn't think beyond the next paycheck and the next little
drink' Well you do so make up your mind to go on, 'cos
when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
Mama said you'd be the Chosen One.
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
You got yourself a gun.
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Larry Love in fact spilled the beans on the song, incidentally, in an article about the hobbies of A3's former Mouth-Organist, Nick Reynolds...apparently, it was inspired by a story of domestic abuse and murder:
"We have a lot of Alabama 3 fans on death row in Texas and they are sending us lyrics of the songs they have written," says Larry Love, who writes some of the band's songs, although he is from Merthyr Tydfil rather than Alabama. They have just released a new album , called MOR. "We have one song [on it] called Locked Down and Loaded but I Love You, which is written from the point of view of a spouse," says Love. "In fact, Woke Up This Morning was written after I read about the case of Sara Thornton and how she had killed her husband. It was meant to be about female empowerment, and it ends up becoming a gangster anthem."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/27/usa.art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke_Up_This_Morning
I actually find it kind of funny that A3 is so well respected in America when it was in fact concieved by a bunch of Welsh and British guys, and consists of largely sarcastic songs deploring the bad bits of America - Drugs, Overzealous Religion, Domestic Violence, etc...
This song rules! I first heard it on The Simpsons when Fatony is coming to kill Homer for not giving him a cut of what Marge made selling Pretzles. Wicked tune!
Great song, me, my brother and my mom love it :p
What does this song mean? It means Tony Soprano kicking some serious stugots.
This song is about a woman who kills her abusive man. Cool.
To me it's about waking up in a spiritual sense (like buddha), and firing yourself into the stream of life with purpose...
There must be different versions of this song... the copy I have is entirely first person, "I woke up this morning", "Mama always said I'd be..." instead of second person "you woke up this morning" - how does that change the meaning?
I thought it was called 'Chosen One'. Whatever. Hella sick song. Sopranos theme.
i love it it. plain and simple.
Heard this on an older episode of the simpsons and the new one that was on sunday night! anyways, greattt song Love the Sopranos
Yeah the Sopranos version says it in first person. It doesnt really change the meaning, int he 3rd person version its almost like he's talking to himself. Sopranos is a kick ass show, I'm gonna miss it...