Just a mother and sons living under the gun

Bruises on their backs were just another

Sign of the push & the shove & the lack of the love

On the side of the tracks that they were brought up

Now they're speaking it out through the silence & doubt

Try to figure it out but get caught up

In the here and the now & the where & the how

You know what it's about when they say


Wake me when it's over

Pick me up I'm on the ground

Wake me when it's over now!


She's just a girl on the run hit the streets so undone

Mistreated under the sheets by her father

Keeps her heart cold & numb thoughts she can't overcome

Still she looks for the one that could save her

Now she's working it out in the corner of town

Between 7th and south you will find her

With her head in the clouds & her back on the ground

You know what it's about when she says


Wake me when it's over

Pick me up I'm on the ground

Wake me when it's over

Show me where the light is found

Wake me it's over now!


Where are the fathers of the fatherless?


Now they're speaking it out through the silence & doubt

Try to figure it out but get caught up 

In the here and the now & the where & the how

You know what it's about when the say


Wake me when it's over

Pick me up I'm on the ground

Wake me when it's over

Show me where the light is found

Wake me it's over 

I swear I will not make a sound

Wake me when it's over

Wake me when it's over

Wake me when it's over


Wake me, wake me, wake me, wake me

When it's over

When it's over

When it's over

When it's over