Wake Up Time For Freedom by The Cult

Album: Sonic Temple (1989)

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The Cult's front man, Ian Astbury, said this song was inspired by a recurring nightmare he kept having: "Kinda getting busted, thrown on the side of the road and the lyrics are kinda very dreamlike. It's an escape from constantly being told what to do and how to do things and when to jump and how high by the powers that be. It's kind of a statement of my own freedom."

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