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Wake Up Daddy
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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.
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Genre
Alternative • Post Punk
Charts
Peak #163
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Steve Smith
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Steve Smith
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October 18, 2010
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MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 4:33
Story behind the song
From the man who doesn't do social comment... more social comment. Based on a true story, which told of the body of a child being recovered from a flat next to that of his father, who had died of a heroin overdose some days before. The story affected me profoundly, not least because it made me reflect sharply on my own acts of selfishness and petty neglect towards my own children. Maybe not as serious, but damaging nonetheless. Whew, that's enough of that ... the next few songs will be more cheerful I promise!
Lyrics
Wake up Daddy He plucks at his hand But at twenty six months old He doesn't understand. Wake up Daddy, Don't stay asleep, I need you to wake up now And look after me. Though he's well accustomed To playing on his own, By the second day He knows something's wrong. Dirty and terrified, He screams and he yells But Daddy's not responding And there's nobody else Wake up Daddy Day 4, He doesn't cry any more, He's given up trying to eat the things He picks up off the floor. Close your eyes, little one, And the pain will stop. There's no need To wake up. And the press pick over the corpses While we work out who to blame: Was it the needle stuck in Daddy's arm Or the knock on the door that never came? But if we can't tell the difference Between the cause and the effect Then please spare me the moral hindsight And tell me what did you expect? Wake up Daddy I must have been asleep Every time I should have been there Every promise I failed to keep And the chilling sense of arrrogance That made me think it was OK Wake up Daddy You've your part to play.
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Michael Duran
Oct 21, 2010
spectacularly moving work of art Steven, the lyric is powerfull and leaves nothing left to say but bravo!
DOOMTRAINmusic
Oct 21, 2010
POWERFUL ! and sang with compassion, music is a way of telling many tragedies of life Take Care Alan/Roger