Monday, 12 December 2016

Wake Me Up

Recently I've been working quite a lot of morning shifts, so now my body is beginning to adapt to waking up at what I'd usually consider unnatural hours to start the day. This is a good thing because I've never been a morning person at all, so being able to wake up and getting out of bed when I need to and not having to run for public transport is quite the achievement. However, it has also proven to be a bit of an inconvenience for when I'm not working the morning shift, for example the past couple of days. I've had the days off and I haven't been able to sufficiently sleep in like I've wanted to. This morning for example, I woke up and it was 6:30am! Why body, why?!?! I was the only one awake, so I decided to go back to sleep for another couple of hours, just wanting everyone else to wake up soon so I could start the day. This sort of behaviour is not me at all.

Usually I want to sleep all day and hate the idea of waking up during a time with single digit number. Years ago during a high school music camp, my friend who I shared a cabin with spent so long trying to wake me up each morning. It certainly was a brave endeavour she had to undertake with that, because I stubbornly kept rolling over and burying my head back into the covers. Which leads me to the song of the day, as it was during that time the first album of Ed Sheeran came out and quite understandably (because + is an incredible album) I would sing 'Wake Me Up' to her. I didn't know all the lyrics back then, so I would constantly repeat the line "would you make me a cup of tea to open my eyes in the right way?" which is how I wake up every morning to this day (I'm heavily tea dependant).

'Wake Me Up' is such a beautiful song, telling the story of how much he loves this girl and probably one of my favourite songs of his. The music is just the single piano accompanying, and it is so delicate and pure, truly an underrated masterpiece. At the moment, I'm listening to X album and have reached the Deluxe Edition 'Even My Dad Does Sometimes' which just breaks your heart. He's so talented and I really want him to release another album soon so the world can have more of him.





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