The story goes the truth is no one knows

A stranger came a man who lost his name

At night he tells his tale prison women wail

The took him in he let them win over and over

He said "If you don't have good words to say

Don't wake me up until the judgment day

'Cause if nothing is the way it seems

Then this life is just a haunted dream

And all this love is just falling down through the years

And oh I'd rather sleep"

Wake me up on judgment day

Let me hear golden trumpets play

Give me life where nothing fails

Not a dream in a wishing well

A man in tattered clothes

Crying all he knows

The darkness grows

That's how it goes over and over

He said "I think of the beauty I've had

And all it does is make me feel so bad

'Cause they make you think you're riding high

Then they toss you up off in the sky

And all this life is just falling down through the years

And oh I'd rather sleep"

Wake me up on judgment day

Let me hear golden trumpets play

Give me life where nothing fails

Not a dream in a wishing well

Say a prayer for the stranger

Listen to the stranger

Wake me up on judgment day

Let me hear golden trumpets play

Give me life where nothing fails

Not a dream in a wishing well

Wake me up on judgment day

Let me hear golden trumpets play yeah

Give me life where nothing fails

Not a dream in a wishing well

Oh oh wake up wake me up

Let me hear

Give me life

Not a dream in a wishing well

Wake me up on judgment day

Let me hear golden trumpets play yeah

Give me life where nothing fails

Not a dream in a wishing well oh oh

Wake me up on judgment day

Wake me up

Give me life

Give me life where nothing fails

Oh oh yeah oh oh oh

Wake me up on judgment day

Give me life give me life

Give me life

Give me life where nothing fails