Children, Don’t Grow Up

The Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” is one of the best songs of all time. Here are a few different versions of it for you to enjoy.

Alternate Abridged Version (from Where the Wild Things Are trailer)

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Wake Up (Alternate Version).mp3 (right click to save as)

Acoustic Session Recording

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Wake Up (Acoustic Version).mp3 (right click to save as)

Original recording off of the album Funeral

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Wake Up – Arcade Fire.mp3 (right click to save as)

Somethin’ filled up
my heart with nothin’,
someone told me not to cry.

But now that I’m older,
my heart’s colder,
and I can see that it’s a lie.

Children wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.

If the children don’t grow up,
our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
We’re just a million little god’s causin rain storms turnin’ every good thing to rust.

I guess we’ll just have to adjust.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’ to be
when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’
With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am go-goin’

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This entry was written by Ryan, posted on April 2, 2009 at 1:35 am, filed under Song of the Day and tagged arcade fire. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.