Name: Waking Up Strange [Bonus Track]
Duration: P00H05M39S
Description: This song was recorded in the same sessions as the other songs on Prison Without Walls, but was not included on the original cassette release.

Waking Up Strange [Bonus Track]

from Prison Without Walls by Andrew Lawrence Jackson

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This song was recorded in the same sessions as the other songs on Prison Without Walls, but was not included on the original cassette release.

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It’s a feeling I have
Want to tell it out loud
Like a story i remember
From a long, long time ago

There’s a time in my life
Like an African cloud
Come up from nowhere
We’ll just see where it goes

Follow me now
Across the desert
We can stop for water
In a nearby town

Local bartender
Has a friendly manner
Saving his daughter
For a golden crown

His arms his legs
Are just like a spider’s
Here he comes
Across the dry hot sand

There’s a drinking well
The water changes so often
I’ll take a shower
When we reach dry land

It’s a tower of babel
Crumbling to pieces
It’s a powerful feeling
Waking up strange

And my old dance partner
Her claws were so sharp
Still see her singing
From her mountain range

Follow me now
You little children
Keep asking questions
And I’ll tell you why

There’s not an animal
That doesn’t listen
To hear the breeze
On the sky blue sky

I’ll sing my song
To the open desert
I’ll sing my song
To the open sky

I’ll try to feel
The powerful moment
When it comes
I don’t want to know why

I don’t want to know why
I don’t want to know
I don’t want to know why
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Words and music by Andrew L. Jackson

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from Prison Without Walls, released September 1, 1990
Performed, recorded, and produced by Andrew L. Jackson
Copyright 1990 Andrew L. Jackson

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Andrew Lawrence Jackson

Alternative singer-songwriter, recording artist, Zru Vogue co-founder, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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