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Don't Try To Wake Me Up

from Wooden by Ben Sparaco

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I fell out of bed on an early Sunday morning 
Wondering what it was that woke me up 
A knock on the door was followed by a gentle woman's voice 
Asking "don't you think you've slept enough?"

I pulled the sheets back over my head and tried not to listen 
Hoping I would drift into a dream 
That would wake me and show me  the illusion of my peace 
But instead I hear the stomping of angry feet 

Don't try to wake me up from this fantasy 
Half awake, I'm living in my dreams 
Tucked away it's all okay to never come downstairs and never face the fears of an average day 

It's only 20 degrees but it's warmer in my bed 
Where I’m dreaming I’m a castaway with a busted head 
But I'm lying here by myself and I'm in picture perfect health 
That's real life, sitting in a living hell

Don't try to wake me up from this fantasy 
Half awake, I'm living in my dreams 
Tucked away it's all okay to never come downstairs and never face the fears of an average day 

When I hear footsteps up the stairs, I lay here frozen scared 
Hoping that she'll start to raise her tone 
Only so the kids would start to know
Why their father needed to go 
And she opens the door to find only my ghost 

Don't try to wake me up from this fantasy 
Half awake, I'm living in my dreams 
Tucked away it's all okay to never come downstairs and never face the fears of an average day
Yesterday she found a way to make me hang upstairs so I could never face the fears of an average day

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from Wooden, released January 13, 2017

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Ben Sparaco Nashville, Tennessee

Ben Sparaco is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter from South Florida living in Nashville Tennessee. Ben's music combines influences from the folk songwriters of the 50s and 60s, legendary blues/rock guitarists, seminal jazz horn players, and much more. ... more

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