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vb. (present participle of wake up English)
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Waking Up is a solo album by Topper Headon best known as the drummer of The Clash. The album was released by Mercury in 1986 with a cover photograph taken by Tim White. "Leave It to Luck" was released as a single and as part of an EP. The album was dedicated to the memory of Pete Farndon.
Waking Up is the third studio album from Bethany Dillon. It was released on April 3, 2007. It contains the singles "the Kingdom", and " When You Love Someone".
Waking Up may refer to:
- Waking up, emerging from sleep
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, a book by Sam Harris
- Waking Up (Bethany Dillon album), or the title song, 2007
- Waking Up (OneRepublic album), or the title song, 2009
- Waking Up (Topper Headon album), 1986
- Waking Up (Maryanne Ito album), 2014
- Waking Up (Nåid album), a 2000 album by Martin Landquist recording as Nåid
- "Waking Up" (song), a 1995 song by Elastica
- "Waking Up", a song by 10 Years from The Autumn Effect
- "Waking Up", a song by Julien-K for the video game Shadow the Hedgehog
Waking Up is the second studio album by American rock band OneRepublic, released through Interscope Records on November 17, 2009. The album peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200 and has sold over 660,000 copies in the US and over 800,000 total.
Lead singer Ryan Tedder has stated in an interview that Jerrod Bettis, who was a former OneRepublic member, had come up with the idea for the album cover while in Seattle.
"Waking Up" is a song by the Britpop group Elastica. It was released as a single in February 1995 and reached #13 on the UK Singles Chart. It preceded the release of their self-titled debut album, which came out the following month.
The song, written about being an underachiever, received positive critical reviews. However, it also prompted a lawsuit from the publishers of The Stranglers, who claimed that Elastica took the song's riff from The Stranglers' " No More Heroes". The case was settled out of court.
Waking Up is a studio album self-released by singer-songwriter Maryanne Ito on June 5, 2014. It peaked at No. 4 on the UK Soul Chart. The Star Advertiser praised the album, and it peaked at No. 4 on the UK Soul Chart. Waking Up was then named the Best R&B Album of the Year at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 2015.
Usage examples of "waking up".
Fighting against sleep, he forces his eyes to stay open, unblinking, until the visual purple fades off the retinas and sends him blind, but he's only human, in the end he falls down the rabbit-hole and there he is again, in Wonderland, up the mountain, and the businessman is waking up, and once again his wanting, his need, goes to work, not on my jaws and voice this time, but on my whole body.
But I have to warn you - they're real unstable, and you'll have to keep a weather eye out for the slightest sign that he's waking up.
I want you pretty badly, and waking up with you in my arms is straining my good intentions to the limit.
I mean plain ordinary rest, and sleep, and waking up to a morning's work in the garden.
The very going to sleep, still with an indistinct idea, as the head jogged to and fro upon the pillow, of moving onward with no trouble or fatigue, and hearing all these sounds like dreamy music, lulling to the senses--and the slow waking up, and finding one’.
Each morning, Flo came out and drank from the Blue Cup and said that she was waking up.
She was waking up, after centuries of sleep, and beginning to remember who and what she was, and could be.