Story Behind The Song
My daughter would ask "what are we doing, when I wake up from this night"
I loved that I always had the opportunity to throw in a little social consiousness with her chores.
Song Description
A child is concerned about the world and it's well being. In answering, the parent sings of the ways a child can change the world.
| Song Length |
3:33 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Pop - Easy Listening |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Welcoming, Engaging |
Subject |
Protest, Earth |
| Similar Artists |
Indigo Girls, Harry Chapin |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1990 - 1999 |
| |
Lyrics
When I Wake Up From This Night
© 1993 Sally Fingerett
Everynight at eight o'clock, we lay our heads for pillow talk
Hey mom, tell me true, let me ask these things of you.
When I wake up from this night, will there be a morning
Will the sun be shining bright, what will I find dawning
When I wake up from this night, will there be a forest
Will the selfish greedy ones, take the big trees from us.
When I wake, will the rain stop coming
When I wake, will the sun stop shining
When I wake, will the gardens growing,
Stop from loving me. Tell me please.
When I wake up from this night, will I be awaken
By sirens from a nuclear sight, accidents can happen
When I wake up from this night, will there be tomorrow
Will the earth have had enough, enough of all this sorrow.
When I wake, will there be oceans
When I wake, will I still be frightened
When I wake, will there be horizons
That I cannot see. Tell me please
When I wake up from this night, oh tell me
Who on earth is gonna make it right,
When I wake up from this night.
Here I lay right beside my daughter
In my soul I've journeyed to protect her
More than that it's my job to teach her
How to love this land. I take her hand I say...
When you wake up from this night, yes there'll be a morning
The sun's gonna be shining bright with new ideas dawning.
And when you wake up from this night, we'll start a new beginning
Show the earth her due respect create new laws for living.
When you wake, we're gonna work together
When you wake, we're gonna start all over
When you wake, we'll take back forever
We will rise up strong. We don't have long.
When you wake up from this night, oh darlin'
You and I are gonna make it right
When we wake up from this night
You and I are gonna make it right
When we wake up from this night.