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Wake Me When It's Over

from Spintunes by Dr. Lindyke

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This is our entry for SpinTunes 3, round 1. The challenge: Write a happy song about death. This begs for a novelty song, but Sammy Kablam challenged us to write an un-funny happy song. So we started thinking about all the different kinds of "happy" there are, and we hope we came up with a very pure, almost tearful bittersweet happy.

Here we're imagining a terminal patient telling his wife not to grieve for him, as he's genuinely and sincerely happy to die and go to heaven.

On a technical note... yep, we're aware that once again we switched genres halfway through the song. It goes from borderline gospel to a rumba. I like mixed genres... sue me. In this case, though, there's a practical reason. This challenge is really the inverted form of an earlier challenge (SpinTunes 1, Round 3: "Happy to Sad in 4 Seconds: Write a sad song about birth"), so here we're attempting to take you from sad to happy. Hence the bait-and-switch.

One last thing... this is under 3 minutes long as a gesture of mercy toward the judges. There are 60 contestants in round 1. If every song was only as long as this one, it would take them three hours just to listen to each song once.

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WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER
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Babe, you know I’m leaving
I’m going home
I can hear my name called in the light
I don’t want you grieving
There’s no need for tears
Everything will turn out right

Revel in the time we had to share
Celebrate the memories that you keep
The answers to your questions
Surely lie above
Now it’s time for me to sleep

Wake me when it’s over
Have a party while I’m growin’ colder
And maybe cry into your beer
Because you think that I’m not there

But...
I’ve got a first-class ticket into Paradise
And if you love me you will see me, just close your eyes
And we will spend eternity
In love so endlessly
And when the living ends you’ll see
It’s never over

[instrumental]

I’ve got a first-class ticket to the afterlife
And we’ll forever be together when it comes your time
And we will spend eternity
Bathed in love so endlessly
‘Cause when your life is done you’ll see
It’s never over

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from Spintunes, released January 26, 2013
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Words and music by William Hoover and Dave Leigh
Track Art by Dave Leigh using the GIMP and NASA source images.

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"Dr. Lindyke" is the nom de plume of William Hoover and Dave Leigh. William writes lyrics; Dave writes music. Though we write a lot, neither of us are really performers, and we LOVE it when people cover our songs. Please do.

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