Two Atypical Posts – Part I

     Today, we are venturing outside our normal mode of operation, twice. In both, we are featuring a song that isn’t truly Indie and that may be so overexposed by the end of 2013 that we feel some embarrassment in having featured the song.

This is Part I – “Wake Me Up” by Avicii Featuring Aloe Blacc.

     Who’d da thunk that electronica could be married with country. Technically, Aloe Blacc is married to Aussie rapper Maya Jupiter and he is associated with soul and rap, rather than country. And Avicii (Tim Bergling) doesn’t live in the same continent as Blacc (Sweden, rather than Orange County, California). But the two joined forces to produce “Wake Me Up.” We liked the song (a lot), but didn’t decide to feature the song until we ran into the official video.

Feeling my way through the darkness

Guided by a beating heart

I can't tell where the journey will end

But I know where it starts?

They tell me I'm too young to understand

They say I'm caught up in a dream

Well life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes

Well that's fine by me

So wake me up when it's all over

When I'm wiser and I'm older

All this time I was finding myself

And I didn't know? I was lost

I tried carrying the weight of the world

But I only have two hands

I hope I get the chance to travel the world

And I don't have any plans

I wish that I could stay forever this young

Not afraid to close my eyes

Life's a game? made for everyone

And love is a prize

So wake? me up when it's all over

When I'm wiser and I'm older

All this time I was finding myself

And I didn't know I was lost

I didn't know I was lost

I didn't know I was lost

I didn't know I was lost

I didn't know I was lost