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Hate to Wake Up

from Discover: the bones by the bones

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Joe on "I Hate to Wake Up": "It started out as an effort to recall a hypnotic song I'd heard on the radio while driving in a Land Cruiser through the central desert of Saudi Arabia, and which the camp manager Sa'adi translated as being about insomnia. It was not the first or last time I tried to channel the song. Although this attempt came nowhere close,it morphed into a much slower number, happily, with a melody and personality all it's own -- but still in the end hypnotic. A lot of that's thanks to John Dunton-Downer and Sean's sax parts, which they arranged themselves, and which I still find hauntingly lovely. This is also the first song in which I tried to apply the finger-picking stuff I'd been slaving over, imitating what Eric Rose,Billy West and the late Phil Russo did down at the Record Garage."

lyrics

[recorded]:
I wake up, I just can’t shake the sleep out of my head, I hate to get out of bed

It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.

Wake up Eve, it’s eight o’clock too late to bereave
the passing of our sleep
Me and you, we sleep as one until the morning sun
Cuts us in two

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[as played live]

I wake up, I just can’t shake the sleep out of my head,
I hate to get out of bed
Me and you, we sleep as one until the morning sun
Cuts us in two

It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.

Wake up Eve, it’s eight o’clock too late to bereave
the passing of our sleep
Me and you, we sleep as one until the morning sun
Cuts us in two

It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.

SOLO

It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.

I hate to wake up [repeat]

credits

from Discover: the bones, released August 6, 1982
John-Dunton Downer - tenor sax
Sean Slade - alto sax
Dave "Bone" Pedersen - bass
Richie "Cunningham" Maddalo - drums, percussion
Joe Harvard - Telecaster

engineered by Sean Slade at Contempt Studios, 82 Kenwood St. Dorchester MA. produced by Sean and Joe

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Joe Harvard Asbury Park, New Jersey

"VU & Nico" author, producer-artist-musician
LP creds: Dinosaur, Jr, Pernice Brothers, Throwing Muses etc; spiritual midwife to tons more as co-founder/owner of Fort Apache '85-'93.
An East Bostonian based [One Banned Man, Dub Proof, Doctor Danger, Cockwalkers] in NJ & MOTH NYC Storyslam Champ '01; loves cats. Asbury Music Awards: Top Americana '09/Top Multi-Instrumentalist & Top Avant-Garde '10. ... more

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