Lyrics to
Wake Up (Set Your Sights)

Released by Uriah Heep in 1970
From the Album: Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble |

This version of Wake Up (Set Your Sights) was released by Uriah Heep in 1970.

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Oh yeah
Wake up, set your sights
For never shall we fail
Stand up for your rights
And justice will prevail
You’re listening through endless nights
And decision is your goal
So wake up, set your sights
For the time is right for your role
Yeah for your role, yeah, yeah

Wake up, wake up, wake up
Set your sights
Never, never, never
Shall we fail
Stand up, stand up, stand up
For your rights
Justice, justice, justice
Will prevail

There in the morning flying over the hills
While many are yawning they are crushed by our wills
Never have I witnessed people in fear
Not like today, not in many a year
Go kill another, there are more close behind
“No” screams a mother, “are you of your mind?”
Though they are shattered they just don’t seem to yield
Bodies are scattered in all part of the field
Oh no, did I tell you what would happen if you tried
“Oh God stop this killing,” said a young man
Before he died

Wake up, set your sights
For never shall we fail
Stand up for your rights
And justice will prevail


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Uriah Heep has released many songs over the years besides Wake Up (Set Your Sights). Uriah Heep released songs from 1970 to 1998 spanning across albums like Very 'eavy... Very 'umble, Salisbury, Look At Yourself, Demons And Wizards, The Magician's Birthday, Sweet Freedom, Wonderworld, Return To Fantasy, High And Mighty, Firefly, Innocent Victim, Fallen Angel, Conquest, Abominog, Head First, Equator, Raging Silence, Different World, Sea Of Light, and Sonic Origami. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Uriah Heep.

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About Lyrics and Wake Up (Set Your Sights) by Uriah Heep

The lyrics for Wake Up (Set Your Sights) are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Uriah Heep. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Wake Up (Set Your Sights) have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Wake Up (Set Your Sights) - Uriah Heep and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Wake Up (Set Your Sights) by Uriah Heep in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Wake Up (Set Your Sights)" means the words set to the music of Wake Up (Set Your Sights), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Uriah Heep. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Wake Up (Set Your Sights) and the lyrics to Wake Up (Set Your Sights) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Uriah Heep who came here looking just for the lyrics to Wake Up (Set Your Sights), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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