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Alabama Shakes
Boys & Girls
Rise to the Sun

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Rise to the Sun

Release date: 2nd April 2012

From Boys & GirlsTrack 43:09

Alternative Music Rock Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"Rise to the Sun" is a track by Alabama Shakes, from the album Boys & Girls, released 2nd April 2012. The track is 3:09 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Alabama Shakes.

About the Artist

Alabama Shakes

Alabama Shakes

Lyrics

Rise to the Sun

All I believe in is a dream
I haunt the Earth though I am fully seen
In all my years I've never felt more sure than now
Well I got to get off this rock somehow
I feel so homesick
Where's my home
Where I belong
Oh where I was born
I was told to go
Where the wind would blow
And it blows away, away
Well my eyes are full of stars
But I just can't reach them
Oh, how high they are
I got to believe what I'm seeing can come true
But in a modern world that can be so hard to do
I feel so homesick
Where's my home
Where I belong
Oh where I was born
I was told to go
Where the wind would blow
And it blows away, away
I wake up
Rise to the sun
I go to work
And I come back home
I wake up
Rise to the sun
I go to work
And I come back home
Come back home

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Boys & Girls

3:092012

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Album

Track number

4

Release year

2012

1Hold On
3:46
2I Found You
3:00
3Hang Loose
2:24
4Rise to the Sun
3:09

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6Goin' to the Party

10I Ain't the Same