Just a mother and sons livin' under the gun   Bruises on their backs were just another   Sign of the push and the shove and the lack of the love   On the side of the tracks that they were brought up      Now they?re speakin' it out through the silence and doubt   Try to figure it out but get caught up   In the here and the now and the where and the how   You know what it?s about when they say      Wake me when it?s over   Pick me up, I?m on the ground   Wake me when it?s over, now      She?s just a girl on the run, hit the streets so undone   Mistreated under the sheets by her father   Keeps her heart cold and numb, thoughts she can?t overcome   Still she looks for the one that could save her      Now she?s workin' it out in the corner of town   Between 7th and south you will find her   With her head in the clouds and her back on the ground   You know what it?s about when she says      Wake me when it?s over   Pick me up, I?m on the ground   Wake me when it?s over   Show me where the light is found   Wake me when it?s over, now      Where are the fathers of the fatherless?      Now they?re speakin' it out through the silence and doubt   Try to figure it out but get caught up   In the here and the now and the where and the how   You know, what it?s about when the say      Wake me when it?s over   Pick me up, I?m on the ground   Wake me when it?s over   Show me where the light is found      Wake me when it?s over   I swear I will not make a sound   Wake me when it?s over   Wake me when it?s over   Wake me when it?s over      Wake me, wake me, wake me, wake me   When it?s over   When it?s over   When it?s over   When it?s over