Yeah, this song really hit me hard the other day, being a graudate from high school it made me realize that it's time to wake up and start following my dreams. I've heard this song several times before but never really paid attention to the lyrics until then. That's when it hit me hard and it gives me chills when he says "It's wake up time. Time to open up your eyes...and rise....and shine." I love how he says that part. It's really a very underrated Tom Petty song just like several songs of his that get lost in the mush of his "hits"..
I'm reading this eight years after your post. At about the same time you posted this I was morning the loss of my brother who had passed away in October of 2005. I was listening to "Wildflowers" a great deal in the year after his death. Eventually this song helped convince me to "rise...and shine" and get on with my life. I see you were thinking along those same lines but for different reasons. I'm curious to know how that worked out for you if you don't mind. I hope all is well.
I'm reading this eight years after your post. At about the same time you posted this I was morning the loss of my brother who had passed away in October of 2005. I was listening to "Wildflowers" a great deal in the year after his death. Eventually this song helped convince me to "rise...and shine" and get on with my life. I see you were thinking along those same lines but for different reasons. I'm curious to know how that worked out for you if you don't mind. I hope all is well.
@Kyle Vandagriff I had a long period of depression. I think clinical depression should have a different name from "Oh, I'm depressed that the Rams lost", because they're different things. As I came out of it was around the time Petty died, and of all the stuff of his I listened to, this really hit home with me. There's plenty of songs about being depressed, but this was the one I needed about "now get on with it".
@Kyle Vandagriff I had a long period of depression. I think clinical depression should have a different name from "Oh, I'm depressed that the Rams lost", because they're different things. As I came out of it was around the time Petty died, and of all the stuff of his I listened to, this really hit home with me. There's plenty of songs about being depressed, but this was the one I needed about "now get on with it".
Yeah, this song really hit me hard the other day, being a graudate from high school it made me realize that it's time to wake up and start following my dreams. I've heard this song several times before but never really paid attention to the lyrics until then. That's when it hit me hard and it gives me chills when he says "It's wake up time. Time to open up your eyes...and rise....and shine." I love how he says that part. It's really a very underrated Tom Petty song just like several songs of his that get lost in the mush of his "hits"..
I'm reading this eight years after your post. At about the same time you posted this I was morning the loss of my brother who had passed away in October of 2005. I was listening to "Wildflowers" a great deal in the year after his death. Eventually this song helped convince me to "rise...and shine" and get on with my life. I see you were thinking along those same lines but for different reasons. I'm curious to know how that worked out for you if you don't mind. I hope all is well.
I'm reading this eight years after your post. At about the same time you posted this I was morning the loss of my brother who had passed away in October of 2005. I was listening to "Wildflowers" a great deal in the year after his death. Eventually this song helped convince me to "rise...and shine" and get on with my life. I see you were thinking along those same lines but for different reasons. I'm curious to know how that worked out for you if you don't mind. I hope all is well.
@Kyle Vandagriff I had a long period of depression. I think clinical depression should have a different name from "Oh, I'm depressed that the Rams lost", because they're different things. As I came out of it was around the time Petty died, and of all the stuff of his I listened to, this really hit home with me. There's plenty of songs about being depressed, but this was the one I needed about "now get on with it".
@Kyle Vandagriff I had a long period of depression. I think clinical depression should have a different name from "Oh, I'm depressed that the Rams lost", because they're different things. As I came out of it was around the time Petty died, and of all the stuff of his I listened to, this really hit home with me. There's plenty of songs about being depressed, but this was the one I needed about "now get on with it".