Wake Up Sunshine

Back in the days of my impressionable youth, this song captured my fancy. I always imagined it as a love song, a man calling his beloved to join him not just in the new day but in the challenges and commitments they face together to make the world a better place. 

I was quite the idealistic and poetic little thing, wasn't I?

And now these days, when I wake up in the mornings, to find my husband long gone for work and my dog snoozing away in bed beside me, I sometimes wonder if the lyrics weren't written just for us. 

See what you think. 

Wake up, sunshine

Open up your sleepy eyes for me

Can't have you hiding

I've been waiting all the night

People waiting for the light

Sunshine, sunshine

Wake up sunshine

Let me feel your warm sunlight on me

Can't have you hiding

Night was long and night was cold

But today we're one day older

Sunshine, you make my life sunshine

You know I'm talking to you

I know you're knowing it too

So just stop hiding your face

Just open your eyes

Just smile your smile

I'm talking to you 

Wake up sunshine

Ooh it's good to have you here with me

Can't have you hiding

Can't imagine what I'd do but

Feel too lonely without you

Sunshine, sunshine

You got to wake up girl

And face the day ahead.

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Go ahead, listen to the music as well and bring some sunshine into your day. 

Wake Up Sunshine by Chicago