1995Released
7:36

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Interesting facts and trivia about Wake Up. By Songfacts®.

In this song, lead singer Layne Staley sings about how he needs to "Wake Up" from his addiction to heroin. He refers to his drug use as a "Love affair" that has to go and how for 10 long years he has a lot of "Leaves To Rake Up." He knows heroin is a bad idea and tries to convince himself not to do it.

Mad Season was a side project for members of prominent bands. Staley was lead singer of Alice In Chains, Mike McCready from Pearl Jam played guitar and Martin Barrett from the Screaming Trees was on drums.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Wake Up.
GKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
83BPM

Album

The album Wake Up is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Wake Up.
Columbia/Legacy
(P) 1995 Hollywood Records, Inc.; 1995, 2013 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

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