![]() And you should be really happy, because you’ve created something which is your thing and nobody else’s. Wake Up Time (Tom Petty song) - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (live) Prometheus13. And he said, “You know, TP, that’s not like anybody. And he came down to the studio and he listened to the album and when he heard “Wake Up Time” he was really taken by it. I was very pleased to get to play that to Denny Cordell, not long before he died. So, God, you talk about your shortlist of things you’ve ever done. So that was kind of a good thing to have in your back pocket, knowing where you were going. I wasn’t sure what would be the beginning, but I knew that was going to be the end, and that I was gonna work toward that. “Wake Up Time,” home recording, from Wildflowers & All The Restĭid you know at the time it would be a good closer for the album? I wrote it around the time I wrote “It’s Good To Be King.” Anyway, here are the chords: Intro: G, D, G, D, G, D, Fm, A, Asus4, A, Asus4 G D G D You follow your feelings, you follow your dreams G D Fm A You follow the leader into the trees G D G D And whats in there waiting, neither one of us knows G D Fm A You gotta keep one eye open the further you go G Em A D You never dreamed youd go down on. I’m going to keep doing this, because I want something else like this. Wake Up Time is a lovely coda, a dramatic ballad about the struggle to triumph over failed dreams, with Petty on piano (temporarily filling in for Tench, whose supple playing supports other. And that’s enough inspiration to keep going. You know, you write so many of them, and you hope for something like “Wake Up Time.” And now and then you get it. But it seemed to work better than singing it. It’s your only song that I know of in which you do that. It’s touching how you speak the title in the song, instead of singing it. Mike sat in the control room and played the bass. ![]() ![]() So I did it-with me on piano, on drums, and Mike on bass. And they thought, “No, he plays it too good. ![]() I worked it out, and he said, “Okay, we’re gonna cut it with you on the piano.”Īnd I said, “Well, Ben’s here.” So then they got Benmont out. It took me a little while to figure out how to play it on piano, because I’m not so great on piano, in terms of playing it on a track. So then Rick said, “Why don’t you play it on piano?” And I thought, “Well, damn, I’ve never played it on piano.”Īnd he said, “Go out and see what comes if you start to play it on piano.” And then we weren’t quite satisfied with it, though it was pretty good. Tom Petty( Thomas Earl Petty ) Wake Up Time You follow your feelings, you follow your d reams. Wake Up Time Lyrics Verse 1 You follow your feelings, you follow your dreams You follow the leader into the trees And what's in there waiting, neither one of us knows You gotta keep one eye open. TOM PETTY: I wrote on guitar and we cut it that way. Tom played the piano himself on the track for the same reason as Lennon. ![]()
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