100 Best Wake Up Songs
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Waking up to reality is never easy. The term “wake-up” in its literal sense means to stop sleeping or end someone’s sleep. However, the expression is used to convey a wide range of concepts metaphorically. A number of musicians use the words wake and awake to portray a plethora of ideas.
What Do Songs About Waking Up Convey?
Songs about waking up convey a broad spectrum of emotional elements. Singers and songwriters bring to life different scenarios that reflect the state of being awake. While certain songs are a fun-filled ode to start getting things done, a great number of songs showcase a deeper meaning pertaining to the theme or concept. Feelings that reflect a state of mind are constructively brought to life through story-telling in numerous wake up songs. Elements of exaggeration and fantasy that manifest through thoughts of the protagonist are popular in these songs.
Figurative elements associated with love and relationships are intertwined with conceptual accounts of waking up and starting life afresh. These songs stress on the importance of utilizing time properly to set right your priorities. Different aspects of nature and its wonders are portrayed through songs about waking up early morning. These songs often describe aesthetic landscapes and places that bring a sense of peace and joy when you awaken your senses to the situation you are in.
What Do Songs About Waking Up Symbolize
In songs from different genres, certain singers and songwriters aesthetically capture varied shades of the human spirit through confessional tones about waking up to reality. The message in these songs is conveyed with empowering lyrics that urge us to take heed of a situation or problem. A number of musicians address social issues through songs asking people to wake up and join the movement. The importance of waking up joyful before you start your day is explained exquisitely in wake-up songs about happiness. A sense of sarcasm and diabolic humor is conveyed through the protagonist in songs that ask an ex to wake up to a new beginning.
These songs often showcase the hurt and pain one encounters while trying to get over an ex-girlfriend or boyfriend. In numerous love songs, the protagonist expresses the desire to wake up next to someone special, most often a crush. These songs portray all the unfulfilled desires about loving someone through a series of dreams or fantasies. In certain songs about life, songwriters convey a philosophical message about waking up from a dream and facing the harsh reality of this cruel world. These tunes provide a thought-provoking perspective about life through realization. In songs, then, waking up symbolizes a wide spectrum of attributes.
The list below showcases a collection of wake up rock songs, pop songs, country songs, R&B songs, folk songs, hip hop songs, alternative songs, indie songs, disco songs, new wave songs, synthpop songs, electropop songs, reggae songs, jazz songs, blues songs, EDM songs. If you have a view, opinion, or song suggestion, let us know in the comments section.
10 Best Wake Up Songs
1. “Wake Me Up”—Avicii
2. “Waking Up in Vegas”—Katy Perry
3. “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”—Wham!
4. “Wake Up”—Travis Scott featuring the Weeknd
5. “Wake Me Up”—Remy Ma featuring Lil’ Kim
6. “Wake Me Up When September Ends”—Green Day
7. “Stay Awake”—Dean Lewis
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8. “Wake Me Up”—Foals
9. “Wake Up Call”—Maroon 5
10. “Wake Up”—Fetty Wap
#11—20
11. “Wake Up”—Hillary Duff
12. “Wide Awake”—Katy Perry
13. “Don’t Wake Me Up”—Chris Brown
14. “Wake Up Call”—KSI featuring Trippie Redd
15. “Don’t Wake Up”—Jonas Blue and Why Don’t We
16. “Awake”—Godsmack
17. “Waking Lions”—Pop Evil
18. “Wide Awake”—Eric Saade
19. “Wake Up Call”—Nothing But Thieves
20. “Wake It Up”—E-40 featuring Akon
#21—40
21. “Wake Up Little Susie”—The Everly Brothers
22. “When I Wake Up Tomorrow”—Cheap Trick
23. “Wake Up in the Sky”—Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars and Kodak Black
24. “Wake Up Lovin’ You”—Craig Morgan
25. “Someone Wake Me Up”—Joe McElderry
26. “Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives)”—Dave Matthews Band
27. “Wake Up (Make a Move)”—Lostprophets
28. “Waking Light”—Beck
29. “Why Can’t I Wake Up with You”—Take That
30. “Wake Me Up”—Girls Aloud
31. “Wake Me When It’s Over”—Willie Nelson
32. “Sleeping Awake”—P.O.D.
33. “Falling Awake”—Tarja
34. “Wake Up Boo!”—The Boo Radleys
35. “Wake Up Everybody”—R. Kelly
36. “Awake”—Snoop Dogg
37. “I’m Waking Up to Us”—Belle & Sebastian
38. “Dreaming Wide Awake”—Poets of the Fall
39. “Wake Me Up”—Twice
40. “Wake Up”—The Living End
#41—60
41. “Awake and Alive”—Skillet
42. “Waking Up Slow”—Gabrielle Aplin
43. “Save Me (Wake Up Call)”—Unwritten Law
44. “Awake”—Crash Karma
45. “Wake Up Love”—Teyana Taylor featuring Iman Shumpert
46. “Wake Up Everybody”—Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
47. “Wake Up Dead”—Megadeth
48. “Wake Up”—Suicide Silence
49. “Wake Up Alone”—Amy Winehouse
50. “Wake Up”—Rage Against the Machine
51. “Awake in a Dream”—Kalan Porter
52. “Stay Awake”—Julie Andrews
53. “Wake Up”—Arcade Fire
54. “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)”—Four Tops
55. “Wake Up (Next to You)”—Grahm Parker and the Shot
56. “Waking Up”—Elastica
57. “I Wanna Wake Up With You”—Boris Gardiner
58. “Awakening”—Switchfoot
59. “I’m Awake Now”—The Goo Goo Dolls
60. “Wake Up”—Eskimo Joe
#61—80
61. “Wake Up My Love”—George Harrison
62. “Don’t Wake Me Up”—Uncanny X-Men
63. “Wake Up”—The Vamps
64. “Wake Up”—Alanis Morissette
65. “Wake Me, Shake Me”—The Coasters
66. “Wake Up, Stop Dreaming”—Wang Chung
67. “Wake the Town”—U-Roy
68. “Widow Wake My Mind”—The Smashing Pumpkins
69. “Wake Up”—XTC
70. “Wake Up Irene”—Hank Thompson
71. “Wake the Town and Tell the People”—Lex Baxter
72. “Stay Awake”—Ronnie Laws
73. “Wake Up Brother”—Goldenhorse
74. “Wake Up”—Eliot
75. “Wake Up”—Now United
76. “Waking”—Future Islands
77. “Wake Up Beside Me”—Basshunter
78. “Not Ready to Wake Up”—Aly & AJ
79. “Wake Up”–Skegss
80. “Awakening”—The Script
#81—100
81. “Stay Awake, Wait for Me”—Jessie Ware
82. “Wake Up Call”—Scott Stapp
83. “Wake Up”—Lil Xan
84. “Come Wake Me Up”—Rascal Flatts
85. “Awakening”—Aurora
86. “Dream Awake”—Liv
87. “Wake Me Up”—Mai Kuraki
88. “A Wake”—Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis featuring Evan Roman
89. “Sound of Awakening”—Walk the Moon
90. “Wake Me Up”—Billy Currington
91. “The Wake-Up Bomb”—R.E.M.
92. “Stay Wide Awake”—Eminem
93. “Wake Up Time”—Tom Petty
94. “Wake Up”—Mad Season
95. “Wake Up”—Three Days Grace
96. “Awake”—Tycho
97. “Wake Up World”—Kari Martindahl, Daniel Karlsson, and Robin Bengtsson
98. “Wide Awake”—Man Overboard
99. “Wake Up”—Metro Station
100. “Awake”—Mutiny Within
Other Notable Songs About Waking Up
- “Wake Up”—Ringo Starr
- “Don’t Wake Me Up”—Julian Lennon
- “Wake Up”—ClariS
- “Waking the Demon”—Bullet for My Valentine
- “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake”—The Sounds
- “The Awakening”—The Air I Breathe
- “Wake Up”—Story of the Year
- “I Wake Up Every Night”—Split Enz
- “Please Wake Me Up”—Tom Waits
- “Wake Up”—Coheed and Cambria
- “Wake the White Wolf”—Miracle of Sound
- “Sister Awake”—The Tea Party
- “Wake Up”—Fergie
- “Never As Tired As When Waking Up”—LCD Soundsystem
- “Wake Up”—The Charltons
- “Awake and Dreaming”—Finger Eleven
- “Wake Up”—The Walkmen
- “Happy Wake Up!”—Arisa Mizuki
- “Wake Up”—Korn
- “Waking Up”—OneRepublic
- “Winter Rose/Love Awake”—Wings
- “Wake Up”—Two Door Cinema Club
- “Waking Up”—Bethany Dillon
- “Don’t Wake me Up in the Morning, Michael”—The Peppermint Rainbow
- “Wake Up”—Awolnation
- “Woke Up in Japan”—5 Seconds of Summer
- “Wake Up Call”—Hayden Panettiere
- “Wake Up”—Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
- “Wake the World”—The Beach Boys
- “Wake Up”—Thrice
- “Waking in the Dark”—Only the Poets
- “Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant)”—Twisted Sister
- “Wake Up”—Alicia Keys
- “In My Waking Life”—Saves the Day
- “Wake Up”—Damageplan
- “Woke Up Late”—Drax Project featuring Hailee Steinfeld
- “Alive/Awake”—Oh Land
- “Wake Up with a Smile”—Consumed
- “Waking the Witch”—Kate Bush
- “Wake Up”—Missy Elliot
- “I Woke Up”—Black Eyed Peas
- “Waking Up”—Funeral for a Friend
- “Wake”—Linkin Park
- “Wake Up”—Girls’ Generation
- “Waking Up”—MJ Cole and Freya Ridings
- “I Want to Wake Up”—Pet Shop Boys
- “Woke Up This Morning”—Alabama 3
- “Waking Up”—We the Kingdom
- “Wake Up (Set Your Sights)”—Uriah Heep
- “Awake”—Donkeyboy
- “Wake Up”—Avant
- “I’ll Wake You Up When I Get Home”—Charlie Rich
- “Waking Up”—10 Years
- “Wakin’ Up to Love”—Kenny Nolan
- “The Waker”—Widespread Panic
- “When I Wake Up”—Iggy
- “Wake Up”—Breed 77
- “I Woke Up in Love This Morning”—The Partridge Family
- “Wake”—The Antlers
- “Wake Up”—Mr. Big
- “When You Awake”—The Band
- “Wake Up”—American Hi-Fi
- “Waking Up”—Eels
- “Wake Up”—Yoko Ono
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