Up All Night
Slaughter
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... And when morning comes ...
(I want you)
Up all night, sleep all day
Up all night, sleep all day
When evenin' comes
I am alive
I love to prowl around in the streets
It's the moonlight
That controls my mind
Now I've got the power to speak, yeah!
Awake from dusk to dawn
Watchin' the city lights
Stars are shinin down
They'll be shinin' down on you and I
And when morning comes
I'll hold you till the mornin' light
Everybody sing it now!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
That's right!
Drivin' down the boulevard
All alone
The neon signs are callin' your name
Find me in the corner
Havin' the time of my life
You'd think you'd want to do the same
Awake from dusk to dawn
Watchin' the city lights
Stars are shinin' down
They'll be shinin' down on you and I
And when morning comes
I'll hold you till the mornin' light
Everybody sing it now!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
That's right!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
C'mon c'mon!
Up all night
Oh baby if we could stay up
Twenty-four hours a day!
Awake from dusk to dawn
Watchin' the city lights
Stars are shinin' down
They'll be shinin' down on you and I
And when morning comes
I'll hold you till the mornin' light
Everybody sing it now!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
C'mon c'mon!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
That's right!
Up all night
Sleep all day!
Up all night
... Land where our fathers died
Land of the pilgrims' pride
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring ...
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Perhaps the most joyous rock anthem ever written.
From the moment I first heard it in '90,
I loved it.
Whenever I'm feeling down,
this is more often than not my go-to song
to get me back on my feet.
If you're not on your feet by its end,
a big smile on your face,
moving about like Mark Slaughter does in the video,
then you're beyond my help, Jethro,
and maybe everybody else's too.
Get drastic, and get back in the game.
Slaughter released the album this song is included on just as
the Age of the Hair-Metal Bands was coming to a close.
Grunge was mopin' through the front door,
torn and faded jeans and flannel shirts and distinctly
more minor keys distinctly more abundant.
Pearl Jam. The Smashing Pumpkins.
Nirvana.
Regardless, this is a must-have album for any collection:
it's quite good, top to bottom.
And yeah, I have no idea why it ends
with a patriotic refrain.
But somehow it works. Beautifully.
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Digital Art: What the Flame Wants by yours truly
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