Future Islands - Waking lyrics

Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring

[Future Islands - Waking lyrics]

I've been sitting here thinking
What’s my purpose? What's the meaning?

And all the world just passed me in the night

As my body lies, weakened pins and needles
Wake me,  I'm dreaming

And the blood began to push me back to life
My life,  my truth
It’s all I have to give, I gave to you

To be yourself to see yourself
To see the world is to wake brand new

Do you hate yourself? Break yourself?
Mistake yourself for the things
That they say? For the things that they do

(If you) give a little bit
You get a little bit for you

Give a little bit give a little bit
Give a little bit give a little of you

You know it's the truth

You know
My words have been a shield for all my life
I sang a swan it gave me wings to fly
And in the absence of an echo, ego dies

And in the absence of myself I came to find
My life, my truth it's all I have to give
I gave to you

To be yourself to see yourself
To see the world is to wake brand new

Do you hate yourself? Mistake yourself?
Break yourself for the things that they do?
What did they do to you?

If you give a little bit
You get a little bit for you

Give a little bit give a little bit
Give a little bit give a little of you

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