The story goes, the truth is no one knows

A stranger came, a man who lost his name


At night he tells his tale, prison, women, wail


The took him in, he let them win over and over




He said, "If you don't have good words to say


Don't wake me up until the judgment day

'Cause if nothing is the way it seems


Then this life is just a haunted dream


And all this love is just falling down through the years

And oh, I'd rather sleep"





Wake me up on judgment day

Let me hear golden trumpets play


Give me life where nothing fails


Not a dream in a wishing well




A man in tattered clothes


Crying all he knows

The darkness grows


That's how it goes over and over




He said, "I think of the beauty I've had


And all it does is make me feel so bad


'Cause they make you think you're riding high

Then they toss you up off in the sky


And all this life is just falling down through the years


And oh, I'd rather sleep"




Wake me up on judgment day


Let me hear golden trumpets play

Give me life where nothing fails


Not a dream in a wishing well




Say a prayer for the stranger


Listen to the stranger




Wake me up on judgment day


Let me hear golden trumpets play

Give me life where nothing fails


Not a dream in a wishing well



Wake me up on judgment day


Let me hear golden trumpets play, yeah

Give me life where nothing fails


Not a dream in a wishing well



Oh, oh, wake up, wake me up


Let me hear

Give me life

Not a dream in a wishing well




Wake me up on judgment day

Let me hear golden trumpets play, yeah


Give me life where nothing fails

Not a dream in a wishing well, oh, oh



Wake me up on judgment day


Wake me up

Give me life

Give me life where nothing fails


Oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh



Wake me up on judgment day

Give me life, give me life


Give me life, give me life

Give me life where nothing fails