"Wake Me Up" was written by Avicii, Mike Einziger, and Aloe Blacc. TL DR I think the song is about Yannis finally living and being happy post-Covid, burning the past (the lockdown times), reinventing himself and inviting us to do the same, and him realizing he's now a better, happier man."Wake Me Up" is a song by Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii, released as the lead single from his debut studio album True, released on CD and cassette by PRMD Music and Universal Music Group’s Island Records on 17 June 2013. So, if this is real life, and if he's finally this happy and alive, he's now a better man. Of course, he can't wake up himself (his hands are useless). He's so happy and full of live, he needs to know this isn't a dream. Yannis doesn't want to be woken up from a nightmare, he wants to be woken up to confirm he's in the real world. it turns out my hands are useless but maybe I'm a better man? So won't you tell me if I'm dreaming? I need to know just where i stand. If we don't, we'll spend our life in isolation, indoors, in a pair of dusty boots.įinally, the chorus hits us one final time. Yannis is inviting us to follow him to the post-Covid world. If we stick to the past, if we keep our bad habits from lockdown, if we don't reconnect with the world, we'll be walking into a trap. He burnt the past (his bridges, deleted the codes, no! Im not that man you know), he's burning the Covid times, he's reinventing himself, he's now on top of the world.įurthermore, in the second stanza he's warning us what will happen if we do not do the same. Yannis isn't lusting for a world (future or past) where he could dance and sing and live, he's already there. You walk into a trap then you walk into your youth, yr living all that life in a pair of dusty boots. I'm burning all my bridges, I'm pulling up the ropes, deleting all the codes, no! I'm not that man you know. I thought that was the meaning until I read the following stanzas today: I'm kicking down the doors I'm climbing up the walls of the house that's yours Hey man won't you come, come give me a gun? help me blow the lights right out of the sun Hey man won’t you wake me up? Hey man won’t you wake me up? I'm dancing on the screens I'm dancing in the mountains where I've always been. "Blow the lights right out out of the sun" means to break the nightmare he's in. He's consuming his desire, he's dancing on the mountains, he's on top of the world. I’m walking through the fire defiant on the wire, burning up my desire Hey man won't you come, come give me a gun? help me blow the lights right out of the sun I’m walking through a dream I’m walking through the finest place I’ve ever seen. To him, the current time is a nightmare, and he wants us to wake him up: we just really wanted to write music that would take us out of that room, and out of the current time, and out of the whole situation with the pandemic, and transport us anywhere else.įollowing this idea my first interpretation of the song was that Yannis was picturing a brighter future (or a happier past), telling us all the things he wanted to do once the lockdown ended. Yannis explained in interviews he wrote the lyrics as a means to escape from the dark studio and the lockdown overall: The following is my interpretation of the song: So I was listening to the new track and it hit me.
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