Wide Awake

By Katy Vertuugenfluugen.

LYRICS
I'm wide awake I'm wide awake I'm wide awake Yeah, I was in the dark I was falling hard With an open heart I'm wide awake How did I read the stars so wrong? I'm wide awake And now it's clear to me That everything you see Ain't always what it seems I'm wide awake Yeah, I was dreaming for so long [Pre-Chorus] I wish I knew then <span class="line line-s" id="line_16" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">What I know now <span class="line line-s" id="line_17" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Wouldn't dive in <span class="line line-s" id="line_18" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Wouldn't bow down <span class="line line-s" id="line_19" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Gravity hurts <span class="line line-s" id="line_20" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">You made it so sweet <span class="line line-s" id="line_21" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">'Til I woke up on <span class="line line-s" id="line_22" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">On the concrete

<span class="line line-s" id="line_22" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Falling from cloud nine <span class="line line-s" id="line_24" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Crashing from the high <span class="line line-s" id="line_25" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm letting go tonight <span class="line line-s" id="line_26" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine <span class="line line-s" id="line_27" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_28" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Not losing any sleep <span class="line line-s" id="line_29" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I picked up every piece <span class="line line-s" id="line_30" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">And landed on my feet <span class="line line-s" id="line_31" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_32" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Need nothing to complete myself, no <span class="line line-s" id="line_33" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_34" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Yeah, I am born again <span class="line line-s" id="line_35" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Out of the lion's den <span class="line line-s" id="line_36" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I don't have to pretend <span class="line line-s" id="line_38" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">And it's too late <span class="line line-s" id="line_39" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The story's over now, the end <span class="line" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">[Pre-Chorus] <span class="line line-s" id="line_40" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I wish I knew then <span class="line line-s" id="line_41" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">What I know now <span class="line line-s" id="line_42" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Wouldn't dive in <span class="line line-s" id="line_43" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Wouldn't bow down <span class="line line-s" id="line_44" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Gravity hurts <span class="line line-s" id="line_45" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">You made it so sweet <span class="line line-s" id="line_46" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">'Til I woke up on <span class="line line-s" id="line_47" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">On the concrete

<span class="line line-s" id="line_48" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Falling from cloud nine (it was out of the blue) <span class="line line-s" id="line_49" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm crashing from the high <span class="line line-s" id="line_50" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm letting go tonight (yeah, I'm letting you go) <span class="line line-s" id="line_51" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm falling from cloud nine <span class="line line-s" id="line_52" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_53" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Thunder rumbling <span class="line line-s" id="line_54" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Castles crumbling <span class="line line-s" id="line_55" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_56" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I am trying to hold on <span class="line line-s" id="line_57" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_58" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">God knows that I tried <span class="line line-s" id="line_59" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Seeing the bright side <span class="line line-s" id="line_60" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_61" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm not blind anymore... <span class="line line-s" id="line_62" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_63" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake

<span class="line line-s" id="line_64" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine (it was out of the blue) <span class="line line-s" id="line_65" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm crashing from the high <span class="line line-s" id="line_66" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">You know I'm letting go tonight (yeah, I'm letting you go) <span class="line line-s" id="line_67" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm falling from cloud nine <span class="line line-s" id="line_68" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_69" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_70" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake <span class="line line-s" id="line_71" style="padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;display:block;color:rgb(0,0,0);">I'm wide awake

LYRIC CRITICS TIME
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I'm wide awake,  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Yeah, I was in the dark 

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''Uh, congratulations I guess. I am also sometimes wide awake in the dark.'''

''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">How did I read the stars so wrong? ''

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''Okay I may sound like a total buzzkill but I assume you're talking about constellations? Constellations are stars grouped together to make a pattern. Like, here's Orion's constellation. Legend has it you can use them to guide you through the night and to determine where you are. It also it said it's more accurate than a compass.'''

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And now it's clear to me,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">That everything you see,  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Ain't always what it seems

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Yea there are these things called "illusions".

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Yeah, I was dreaming for so long 

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''Hmm, I'm guessing you're saying you were an idealist? I might be wrong but I don't care. Your song is still terrishit.'''

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I wish I knew then <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">,  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">What I know now 

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''No Katy, you really don't. Because life is all about learning from mistakes. If you were to already know your mistake ahead of time, then what's the point in making any mistake if you already understand the repercussion?'''

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Gravity hurts,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">You made it so sweet,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'Til I woke up on,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">On the concrete 

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''Wut. "'Til I woke up on on the concrete." On on? On on? That really makes, makes zero sense.'''

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Crashing from the high 

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''The high...what? What is high? I assume high is an adjective, even though in this sentence it's being treated like a noun because the line after it has no connection to this line, so in other words, "Crashing from the high" and "I'm letting go tonight" don't connect. Listen: Crashing from the high I'm letting go tonight. If that's too hard to follow, here's a simple version: Katy b a dum gurll ~'''

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Need nothing to complete myself, no 

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">What?

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">The story's over now, the end 

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''The end. Ta-ta! Toodaloo. Don't forget to write to us, if you even can write.'''

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I'm wide awake,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Thunder rumbling,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Castles crumbling 

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''CASTLES crumbling? Where the hell do you live?'''

<p style="text-align:start;">''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">God knows that I tried,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Seeing the bright side,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I'm wide awake,  '<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I'm not blind anymore... ''

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">'''Sounds like something my friend Meghan would say. But thanks to this line I finally understand this song's true meaning. Optimism to Pessimism. This song is about a person (probably Katy) converting from Optimism to Pessimism.'''

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Still has a shit time putting the words together for the song, though.

<p style="text-align:start;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">TheSilverIdiots (talk) 15:52, April 26, 2013 (UTC)