Rise and Shine

I believe they have said in concert that this song is about a cowboy sleeping on the beach.

I miss this era of Cardigans..so full of warmth, jazzy-feel and natural acoustic sounds

The record label strategy to release Life replacing some songs with Emmerdale ones diminished the geniality of The Cardigans album. They threw some songs from Emmerdale and removed even the unique closing song just to maintain the status quo on US (the songs removed are more alternative than the rest of the album)!

I also wanted to comment on this particular song because it has two versions. In the one from Emmerdale Nina's voice is very raw, the way of singing and the music in overall is different. On the first time you hear it you may find it strange if you listened to the Life's recording first, but after the first time you'll only want to hear the Emmerdale version! -

About Life track listing and ordering, I strongly suggest everyone to listen to the original one, with no Rise

Probably way off target but I did wonder whether this might be a song about depression and even perhaps life coming to an end with the line "I want it all to be gone tomorrow".

Despite being sung in a jolly upbeat tempo, some of the lyrics come across as being quite dark "wounded moon" "sun bleed down" and "waves break through". Regardless I think it is a very poetic song with strong imagery.