Wake Up World

by Sputnik Weazel

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Having previously played on more records for other people than I can shake a stick at (notably The Men They Couldn't Hang and the Surfin' Lungs). I had forgotten about this particular song, "Wake Up World", and now seems like a good enough time as any to release it.
Only when I decided to tidy up my studio did I find it again.

"Wake Up World" features the awesome punk/rock guitarist that is my mate Ernie Obrien and is free to download from bandcamp (donations always welcome of course).

Hope you like it, PEACE - save the planet!
Nik X

lyrics

I want to sleep & when I wake,
find it was a dream not a big mistake
I want to vault your 5-bar gate,
but I'm crawling under your walls

I want to lye in your fields of wheat
& dip my toes in your bubbling stream
But your ears of corn aint what they seem,
they're tuned in, picking up radio 3, & it's chemical

Wake up world, look out your travelling bag
Wake up world, this is the last train caravan

Good day, well how you been?
I see you grown yourself a third chin,
Eleven toes & what resembles a wing,
well isn't that the strangest thing, & it's chemical

I don't see eye to eye with you ICI,
if you know what I mean

Wake up world, look out your travelling bag
Wake up world, this is the last train caravan
Wake up world, you got to crawl before you walk
Wake up world, you got to think before you talk

The sparrow becomes an eagle,
at the hands of the bottle
In the arms of an angel,
with your foot down on the throttle

Wake up world...

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released February 1, 2021

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Sputnik Weazel Wales, UK

Sputnik has released a lot of music. Aside from busking with Eddie Izzard & Jamming with Jools Holland, from 2011-2015 Sputnik performed with The Men They Couldn’t Hang (playing drums & piano on their album “The Defiant”). In 2018 he released a music & spoken word vinyl LP in collaboration with the seminal American author Luke Rhinehart - “The Dice Man Speaks”. ... more

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