Police Disco Lights

One of the most live-friendly tracks on Funeral happens to be of the kind to give us words of wisdom and direct messages. That’s probably not the best way to write lyrics any more. But the screaming melodies make “Wake Up” a quasi-riot hit with lingering beauties in the end. The band has played “Wake Up” with U2 and David Bowie and due to its strong choir; everyone is pleased to hear this song on any AF act. And then comes AF’s trick of increasing the tempo once again to turn things around eventually.

The song discusses us children of yesterday being raised and grown up numb and senseless and the consequences of that. Troubled kids of the past seems to be the center point of the album. Even after the Neighborhood series, it’s still us, facing a world so unfair with people so confused. The key line on the song which is unfortunately a words of wisdom and some kind of advice is:

If the children don’t grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up. We’re just a million little God’s causing rain storms turning every good thing to rust.

The interpretation is crystal clear and needs no clarifying. It’s time to wake up and face the music. We should have never been brought up to here but now that we are in the middle of this mess of a society, our duty is to wake up and refurnish our hearts.