Released: April 19, 1993
Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Alex James Graham Coxon Damon Albarn
Producer: Blur
[Intro - spoken]
Good morning, wake up!
[Verse 1]
Wake up with purpose and polite efficiency
Stuff vitamin pills down your health guarantee
A kiss and cuddle with the lucky girl
You get fed and watered, makes your hair curl
[Chorus]
And when the day draws in
You put on a record
Put on something gentle
And wait for the cows to come home
[Verse 2]
"Wake up," a little voice says to you eagerly
You mustn't let yourself sink financially
Don't listen to the accusation that you're tight
You could be the first man on your street to get it right
[Chorus]
And when the day draws in
You go into waltz time
Where once it was good time
And wait for the cows to come home, all your life
[Bridge]
La-da-de-da, la-da-da-de-da
La-da-de-da-da-da, la-da-da-de-da
La-da-de-da-da-da-de-da, la-da-de-da
La-da-de-da-da-da, la-da-de-da (La, la, la)
[Verse 3]
Wake up in purpose and polite efficiency
So you get fed and watered with good company
[Chorus]
And when the day draws in
You go into waltz time
Where once it was good time
And wait for the cows to come home, all your life
Good morning, wake up!
[Verse 1]
Wake up with purpose and polite efficiency
Stuff vitamin pills down your health guarantee
A kiss and cuddle with the lucky girl
You get fed and watered, makes your hair curl
[Chorus]
And when the day draws in
You put on a record
Put on something gentle
And wait for the cows to come home
[Verse 2]
"Wake up," a little voice says to you eagerly
You mustn't let yourself sink financially
Don't listen to the accusation that you're tight
You could be the first man on your street to get it right
[Chorus]
And when the day draws in
You go into waltz time
Where once it was good time
And wait for the cows to come home, all your life
[Bridge]
La-da-de-da, la-da-da-de-da
La-da-de-da-da-da, la-da-da-de-da
La-da-de-da-da-da-de-da, la-da-de-da
La-da-de-da-da-da, la-da-de-da (La, la, la)
[Verse 3]
Wake up in purpose and polite efficiency
So you get fed and watered with good company
[Chorus]
And when the day draws in
You go into waltz time
Where once it was good time
And wait for the cows to come home, all your life
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- Commercial Break
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- Let’s All Go Down the Strand
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- I’m Fine
- Intermission
- Beachcoma
- My Ark
- Garden Central
- For Tomorrow (Visit to Primrose Hill Extended)
- Coping
- Villa Rosie
- Miss America
- Advert
- Mace
- Badgeman Brown
- Hanging Over
- Peach
- When the Cows Come Home
- Maggie May
- Es Schmecht
- Colin Zeal
- Pressure on Julian
- Star Shaped
- Blue Jeans
- Chemical World
- Sunday Sunday
- Oily Water
- Chemical World (Reworked)
- For Tomorrow [Single] (1993)
- The Special Collectors Edition (1994)
- Modern Life Is Rubbish [Special Edition] (2012)
- Song 2
- Girls & Boys
- Parklife
- Beetlebum
- Coffee & TV
- Tender
- Country House
- Ghost Ship
- The Universal
- Charmless Man
- My Terracotta Heart
- To the End
- No Distance Left to Run
- Sweet Song
- For Tomorrow
- Out of Time
- End of a Century
- Ice Cream Man
- Lonesome Street
- Ong Ong
- You’re So Great
- This Is a Low
- Sing
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