Lyrics to
Wake Up Sunshine

This version of Wake Up Sunshine was released by Chicago in 1970.

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Wake up sunshine
Open up your sleepy eyes for me
Can’t have you hidin’
I’ve been waiting all the night
People waiting for the light
Sunshine, sunshine
Wake up sunshine
Let me feel your warm sunlight on me
Can’t have you hidin’
Night was long and night was cold
But today we’re one day older
Sunshine, you make my life sunshine
You know I’m talkin’ to you
I know you’re knowin’ it too
So just stop hidin’ your face
Just open your eyes
Just smile your smile
I’m talkin’ to you
Wake up sunshine
Ooh it’s good to have you here with me
Can’t have you hidin’
Can’t imagine what I’d do
But feel too lonely without you
Sunshine, sunshine
You got to wake up girl
And face the day ahead

Chicago has released many songs over the years besides Wake Up Sunshine. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

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The lyrics to Wake Up Sunshine are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Chicago in 1970. Elements of the lyrics to Wake Up Sunshine are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Chicago and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Wake Up Sunshine back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Wake Up Sunshine by Chicago in a number of 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 Sunshine" means the words set to the music of Wake Up Sunshine, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. 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 Sunshine and the lyrics to Wake Up Sunshine are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to Wake Up Sunshine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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