WAKING UP is the eleventh track on Starset’s third album, DIVISIONS. This song is most likely, as the title says, about waking up from a good dream. This dream may be a relationship the writer had or in the context of this album, the influence of the neurolaces.
[Verse 1]
Is this real?
'Cause I can't feel
I reach into the darkness
And there's nothing to hold
Try to heal
But spin my wheels
The more I try to stop this
The more I lose control
[Pre-Chorus]
Am I just a ghost in my own machine
In a sandbox in the entropy?
Some reality got a hold of me
And I don't think I'll escape
Am I too attached to a memory?
Stuck in my head for eternity
Am I in a dream
Or the in-between?
I don't think
[Chorus]
'Cause I'm not waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up
I'm not waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up
[Verse 2]
Conversations
With simulations
They say there's no escaping
It's a never-ending road
My salvation
Is lost in translation
The more I can't explain it
The more I lose control
[Pre-Chorus]
Am I just a ghost in my own machine
In a sandbox in the entropy?
Some reality got a hold of me
And I don't think I'll escape
Am I too attached to a memory?
Stuck in my head for eternity
Am I in a dream
Or the in between?
I don't think
[Chorus]
'Cause I'm not waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up
I'm not waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up, up
Waking up, up
[Outro]
(I'm not waking)
(I'm not waking)
WAKING UP was written by Dustin Bates & Stephen Aiello.
WAKING UP was produced by Nick Chiari & Dustin Bates.