Example - 'Stay Awake' (Official Video)

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Following on from his #1 smash 'Changed The Way You Kiss Me', this is the official video (directed by Adam Powell) of the brand new single from Example, 'Stay Awake' - produced by Nero.

'Stay Awake' is out now on Ministry of Sound Recordings.

LYRICS:
If we don't kill ourselves
We'll be the leaders of a messed up generation
If we don't kid ourselves
Will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why
Did we take it too far?
Take it too far
Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland
Lose a hundred grand
Will they understand
It was all to stay awake for the longest

March on always after us
Lost troops, half the class of us
You man ain't seen the last of us
Stick around yeh like Elastoplast
Not half mast
Raise our flag, kick the sand
To let you know that we're coming and we're nasty man, and
Don't need sleeping beauty
No, It's what you do to me
Come midnight
And daybreak, yes please gotta find me her namesake
We got faith but don't need bibles
Take the Michael
Hear my recital, I hold the title
Quite vital
We get high on the opposite of Nytol

It was all to stay awake for the longest time
It was long, it was wrong
But it felt so right
See you at the finish line, see you at the finish line
If you got the heart to join us

If we don't kill ourselves
We'll be the leaders of a messed up generation
If we don't kid ourselves
Will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why
Did we take it too far?
Take it too far
Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland
Lose a hundred grand
Will they understand
It was all to stay awake for the longest

March on always after us
Lost troops, half the class of us
You man ain't seen the last of us
Stick around yeh like Elastoplast
Not half mast
Raise our flag, kick the sand
To let you know that we're coming and we're nasty man, and
Don't need sleeping beauty
No, It's what you do to me
Come midnight
And daybreak, yes please gotta find me her namesake
We got faith but don't need bibles
Take the Michael
Hear my recital, I hold the title
Quite vital
We get high on the opposite of Nytol

We just grow
If it's late then we'll show
We dont wait
We just grow
If you hate we don't show
We dont wait
We just grow
If it's late then we'll show
We dont wait
We just grow

If we don't kill ourselves
We'll be the leaders of a messed up generation
If we don't kid ourselves
Will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why
Did we take it too far?
Take it too far
Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland
Lose a hundred grand
Will they understand
It was all to stay awake for the longest

[bert]

This song hits differently now that we've grown up.

[gnick]

Example called it. He knew that our generation would be messed up.

[thomasmahoney]

This was an absolute banger back in the day

[TheAashiq]

I heard this song when I was 15, now I’m 25 and this tune hit differently!! Underrated musician! I hope Example makes a mad comeback with bangers like this 🤜🏾

[ManletStrength]

This song hits me in the feels! Man 2011 was the best and most memorable year of my life! Wish I could relive those days.

[joshmacpherson]

I was 9 when this came out now it hits so different ‘if we don’t kill ourself we be leaders of a messed up generation’ so true

[julesmuffintop]

this is a combination of rap, dub step and hip hop its awesome!

[adwvitakhauri]

Who's listening to this during lockdown?

[bananenkanone]

would definetely go back in time to listen to this track for the first time again

[Imachingster]

All of Examples song's always get's me pumped, I usually never listen to song's that are upbeat, I usually listen to Drum and Bass, but there is something about Example that I can't get enough of :s

[gottacatchemallpokemon]

I refuse to believe this banger has been out and listened to for 12 whole years 😮❤ x

[thompson]

This was an absolute banger at the time man, still love it in 2018

[morgo_]

This is my childhood music right here.😊

[LudCarping]

2022 and this song still bangs. Only problem is that now, the lyrics hit so differently.

[archie]

One of those songs you forgot about and haven't heard in years, then remember every lyric when played.

[WE]

The music I appreciate the most of all, is the music that I come back to and when I do it "brings me back in time." Somehow all his songs do that, and that's worth listening to forever.

[jahmalilogan]

My dad used to put this on when we went out for a night drive and we would go around rally racin for no fuckin reason. I think it was minnistery of sound 2012 or 2011...still miss it😅😊

[sharkbitejessi]

My dad put this on for me to see if I liked it when I was 4, I didn't only like it but I loved it, later on I didn't listen to it for a few years, but I remembered you 'Example' I searched it up, the first song I saw was this, because, when I was young I watched it so many times it was stuck at the top of the list. First listened in 2012, still listening in 2018 ❤❤💜💚

[jameslewis]

He Is 41 1982 in 2023 Elliot John Gleave (born 20 June 1982[citation needed]), better known by his stage name Example, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer. He released his debut studio album, What We Made, in 2007, followed by the mixtape What We Almost Made in 2008. Example first found success in 2010 with the release of his second studio album, Won't Go Quietly, which peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart and number one on the UK Dance Chart.[10] The album had two top 10 singles, "Won't Go Quietly" and "Kickstarts". Example's third studio album, Playing in the Shadows, was released in September 2011 and topped the charts with two number one singles, "Changed the Way You Kiss Me" and "Stay Awake".[12] His fourth studio album, The Evolution of Man, was released in November 2012 and peaked at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart and number one on the UK Dance Chart.

In 2013, Example released the lead single from his next album, entitled "All the Wrong Places", which peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. The following year, he released the single "Kids Again", which also peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. His fifth studio album, Live Life Living, was released in July 2014.[13] As of 2014, Example is the third most downloaded artist in the Dance Music category, after Cascada.

Stay Awake" is a song by British musician Example from his third studio album, Playing in the Shadows. The song was written by Example and produced by British electronic music trio Nero. It was released on 28 August 2011 as the album's second single and was added to the BBC Radio 1 playlist.[2] The song premiered on BBC Radio 1 as Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Record in the World' on 4 July 2011.[3] On 4 September 2011, the single debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number one.

[hntr_official]

I remember when I was just a kid discovering EDM and this was one of my favorite tracks (it still is). Now I'm almost 21 (December 30th 1999) and I understand the lyrics in a different way. Sadly this song isn't available for my country on Spotify anymore.