You seem resigned to find a frequency Somehow I still believed in alchemy The secrets we were told They never turned to gold Untie, untwist, until the brake lights blind us The radio they called it Caroline From ship to shore can we get a crime We sank 'With Sympathy' In 1983 A heavy handed touch of symbolism finds us Near the road whose great fame was owed to pending coronation Near the road in absence we're told We're gonna wake up (wake up) Too soon (too soon) And I don't wanna be the one who loved you Wake up (wake up) Too soon (too soon) We fell asleep without a sound Turn around Turn around and finally brave the night A single moon a single satellite Picked up a souvenir To prove that we were here We trade nostalgia from the comfort of the bar stool I've seen your friends I hear you're married now With every single dare, I dare avow Somehow I made it worse And simplified the verse We lied awake with thoughts we'd pilfered from the art school Still you know The breakwaters slow The waves of California Still you know There's nowhere to go We're gonna wake up (wake up) Too soon (too soon) And I don't wanna be the one who loved you Wake up (wake up) Too soon (too soon) We fell asleep without a sound Turn around