it's pretty hard to tell what this about, but I'd guess it's about feeling obligated to keep living and going on, even though you hate the way the world is.
Someone is robbed of what is rightfully his, and he can't escape it by hiding; he gets hurt anyway. His friend/girlfriend tries to help him through it and get him back on his feet ("you can stay with me at my house").
The first chorus sums up the whole song. The guy wakes up and feels terrible, but the sunlight makes him realize that he slept really late and neglected his responsibilities. What happened to him is still unfair, but he has to keep living and doing his duty.
The next verse (which is one of the saddest lyrics I've ever heard) is similiar. I think the boy was draft dodging because he was a good, innocent person--he didn't support the war and didn't want to kill people. But he eventually realized "times, they gotta change, but so do we"--to him, a world where you're forced to kill people in a war is terrible, but to the rest of the world, he seems crazy and wrong. Even though he thinks it's wrong, he has to give in and do his job.
The last two choruses mean that no matter how your life is going, you have to take care of your responsibilities. The first chorus is a positive situation--the guy is "alive" and full of "life and love and hope." The second is the opposite--the guy is "dying" and full of "apathy and hate," and his girlfriend has left him. However, after both choruses the song says the same thing: "Wake up, you've got a lot of things to do/Wake up, the sun is rising without you." No matter how the guy feels, he gets up and fulfills his responsibilities.
it's pretty hard to tell what this about, but I'd guess it's about feeling obligated to keep living and going on, even though you hate the way the world is.
Someone is robbed of what is rightfully his, and he can't escape it by hiding; he gets hurt anyway. His friend/girlfriend tries to help him through it and get him back on his feet ("you can stay with me at my house").
The first chorus sums up the whole song. The guy wakes up and feels terrible, but the sunlight makes him realize that he slept really late and neglected his responsibilities. What happened to him is still unfair, but he has to keep living and doing his duty.
The next verse (which is one of the saddest lyrics I've ever heard) is similiar. I think the boy was draft dodging because he was a good, innocent person--he didn't support the war and didn't want to kill people. But he eventually realized "times, they gotta change, but so do we"--to him, a world where you're forced to kill people in a war is terrible, but to the rest of the world, he seems crazy and wrong. Even though he thinks it's wrong, he has to give in and do his job.
The last two choruses mean that no matter how your life is going, you have to take care of your responsibilities. The first chorus is a positive situation--the guy is "alive" and full of "life and love and hope." The second is the opposite--the guy is "dying" and full of "apathy and hate," and his girlfriend has left him. However, after both choruses the song says the same thing: "Wake up, you've got a lot of things to do/Wake up, the sun is rising without you." No matter how the guy feels, he gets up and fulfills his responsibilities.