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“Awake Asleep” is a song I was eager to let people hear, so I put it out on a digital (limited) album preview release titled “We’ll Get There First” in 2019 … the first-release of songs from the upcoming full album by Wilfred N & the Grown Men – “Impossible World”. In 2020 I made the video for “Asleep Awake” using footage from the Sulphur Mountain Gondola in Banff, Canada and the stunning Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland.
I remember how this song came about. I made and recorded the instrumental bed and then sat in front of my mic one night, very quietly, and just ‘said the stuff I said’ pretty much in one motion. I like working like this at night, very quietly and close-mic’d with the headphones fairly cranked. It feels like you’re in your head.
Time spent over the past two-years-plus has been rather odd. For no apparent reason – I don’t feel I was directly affected by COVID – my creative life became quite disjointed. The album “Impossible World” seemed to take ‘impossibly’ long to complete, although it was on the verge of being complete for the whole two years. “Awake Asleep” pretty much chronicles a year of nothingness.
I was awake. I was asleep. Nothing ever happens.

lyrics

Crunch time Crunch time

I was awake – I was asleep
I was awake – I was asleep
Awake – asleep

Good to be alive, good to be alive, good to be alive
Good to be alive

I was awake – I was asleep
Awake – asleep
I was awake – I was asleep
Awake

I gotta catch up (do it, do it, do it, do it)

I was awake – I was asleep
I was awake – asleep
I was awake – I was asleep
I was awake

(musical interlude)

July has passed
September, September, September
(do it, do it, do it)

I was awake – I was asleep
I was awake – I was asleep
I was awake – I was asleep
Awake . . . asleep

Good to be alive, good to be alive, good to be alive
Good to be alive

Winter is here, yeah winter is here
I lie awake and I wait for . . . for Spring (do it, do it)

I was awake – I was asleep
I was awake – I was asleep
I was awake – I was asleep
Asleep . . . sleep . . . sleep . . . sleep
Alright now, wake up

Copyright, ©, 2017, by Wilfred Kozub (SOCAN)

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from Impossible World, released July 15, 2022
Wilfred Kozub – Vocals, keyboards, percussion
Christine Hanson – cello

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Wilfred N & the Grown Men Edmonton, Alberta

Wilfred N & the Grown Men are a pop/rock institution in their home town of Edmonton, Canada. With roots in the New Wave scene of the early 80s, the group reliably offers up a striking set of tuneful and significant new songs of imagination and depth.

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