Poor Old Lu - To Be Awake

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First released on Star-Studded-Super-Step, `To Be Awake` was already a bit of a token song for us by the time that we re-recorded it for Mindsize. A tad bit folky, with a bit of a rock vibe, `To Be Awake` was quite different than our other tracks and has always gone well with our acoustic sets or our plugged-in sets.

Lyrically, this song is a bit difficult to nail down. It is definitely focused around the notion of being "aware" or "awake" to the things that we do and say. In a world that works in great opposition to the believer, there is little room for being naive.... and so we need to think, pray and act.


Well I`m a happy man
So will I ever speak my mind

But I know that we
just haven`t got the time

To be awake, to be ashamed, will you?

This world wants to drown me with
the things it`s thinking of

So now I don`t want to see or breathe
in this place that cannot love

I would rather lose my life
than to ever, ever lose my mind

But in this world, in this land
It`s our thoughts that we cannot find

To be awake, to be ashamed, will you?

So you see me run away
And you wonder why I am scared

Well, I just can`t help but think about
the things of which we`re not aware

Release History

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Mindsize

1. All Pretty For The T V
2. Cruciality
3. Do I?
4. In Love With The Greenery
5. More
6. Peapod
7. Shine
8. So Good To See Me
9. Tigger's Daily Jog
10. To Be Awake
11. Tried And True
12. Sometimes Cry

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Poor Old Lu Unsorted

1. A Better Me
2. All Pretty For The T V
3. Bittersweet
4. Bliss Is
5. Bones Are Breaking
6. Center Of Your Ways
7. Chance For The Chancers
8. Closing Down
9. Come To Me
10. Complain
11. Cruciality
12. Digging Deep
13. Do I?
14. Enough
15. For The Love Of My Country
16. Hello Sunny Weather
17. Hope For Always
18. I Am No Good
19. In Love With The Greenery
20. Joy I Had Was Joy I Sold
21. Lie, Lie, Lie
22. More
23. My World Falls Down
24. Peapod
25. Praying For The Perfect World
26. Rail
27. Receive
28. Ring True
29. Shine
30. Shutting Down
31. Sickly
32. Slipknot
33. Slow
34. So Good To See Me
35. Speak Soft
36. Sunlight & Shadows
37. The Weeds That Grow Around My Feet
38. Thoughtless
39. Tigger's Daily Jog
40. To Be Awake
41. What If Uncle Ben Had Lived-
42. Where Were All Of You