A Sense of Doubt blog post #2484 - WAKE UP THE NATION - PAUL WELLER - MUSICAL MONDAY FOR 2112.06 - Being Woke

 

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2484 - WAKE UP THE NATION - PAUL WELLER - MUSICAL MONDAY FOR 2112.06 - Being Woke

This song came up in the HODGE PODGE the other day:

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2482 - Let's Go Brandon Stupidity - Weekly Hodge Podge for 2112.04

I felt that another post just featuring this song was needed.

Since when did being WOKE become an insult? Since the GOP double-down on being as nasty as they can be as some form of misguided patriotism.

Others complain that "woke" people's wokeness doesn't translate to action. BULLSHIT.

Meanwhile on Planet Earth, being "woke" has become toxic. But if the opposite of "woke" is not woke or asleep, not awake, how is that better?

I heard of being "woke" long before one of my heroes, Erykah Badu, used the term in 2017's "Master Teacher," Didn't Laurence Fishburne yell wake up at the end of Spike Lee's School Daze?

And even before that being awake, really AWAKE, versus asleep can be traced through source material by Jung or various philosophers to the ancient Egyptians and third eye concepts.

There's a long history of woke evolution detailed here at Medium.

Thankfully, some still argue to STAY WOKE.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Why has it become such a bad thing to be "woke"?

I feel I am woke AF, and yet I still have a long way to go.

The right wingery just want to turn every positive thing on the left into a negative.

But we need some more people to WAKE THE F UP.

PAST DUE.

The Modfather saw this one coming.

"WAKE UP THE NATION" - PAUL WELLER

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Wake Up the Nation

Paul Weller

Fish from the paper, fresh from the sea
The cracks in the pavement, the city in siege
I don't know where to replace it or who to believe
Can't find on the pavement or lay on his knees
Scratching around in a second I got where you should be

We're going to wake up the nation, don't be no drag
Shake up the station, a night up ahead
We're going to wake up the nation, don't be no drag
Shake up the station, a night on our hands

Nowhere to be
Nowhere to be

Get your face off the Facebook and turn off your phone
The death of the post box, no one is home

Scratching around in a second I got where you should be

Nowhere to be
Nowhere to be

We're going to wake up the nation, don't be no drag
Shake up the station, a night up ahead
We're going to wake up the nation, don't be no drag
Shake up the station, a night on our hands

We're going to wake up the nation, don't be no drag
Shake up the station, a night up ahead
We're going to wake up the nation, don't be no drag
Shake up the station, a night on our hands

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Paul John Weller / Simon Paul Dine

Wake Up the Nation lyrics © Stylist Music Ltd., Kassner Associated Publishers Ltd., Songs Of Benair Churchill, Kassner Associated Publishers Limited

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