Included in the Album, Passenger
Song Sample:
Song backstory:
The music structure was composed in 2023, while in Australia.
The song concept was written after returning to the USA in 2024.
The words are based on 60 years of observation.
In the world today:
- We don't have a population problem.
- We don't have a climate problem.
- We don't have a racial problem.
- We don't have a social problem.
We have an INDIVIDUAL SPIRITUAL problem, and always have.
Each of us has a part to play.
Time to Wake Up, Look and See.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I watch it roll by slow
Steel bones and tired faces
Windows full of strangers
Lost in their own places
The whistle cuts the morning
Like a blade through the gray
We keep our eyes half-open
Then look away
[Pre-Chorus]
But the smoke is getting thicker
And the ground feels thin
If we don't move together
Then the fall begins
[Chorus]
Wake up, wake up, look and see
Wake up, wake up, it starts with me
If we stand up, we can change this road
Wake up, wake up, before it goes
(Wake up)
(look and see)
(change it now)
[Verse 2]
There’s a kid on the corner
Selling hope for spare change
A mother counts her hours
While the whole sky looks strange
And the loud ones keep on talking
Like the truth ain't in the room
But every door is shaking
Under all this doom
[Pre-Chorus]
But the smoke is getting thicker
And the ground feels thin
If we don't move together
Then the fall begins
[Chorus]
Wake up, wake up, look and see
Wake up, wake up, it starts with me
If we stand up, we can change this road
Wake up, wake up, before it goes
(Wake up)
(look and see)
(change it now)
[Bridge]
Take the names off the ledger
Take the fear off the chain
One hand turns into many
When we say it plain
[Final Chorus]
Wake up, wake up, look and see
Wake up, wake up, it starts with me
If we stand up, we can change this road
Wake up, wake up, before it goes
(Wake up)
(look and see)
(change it now)