The meaning of the lyrics of the song "Wake Up" by the artist "Yoav"

Yoav's "Wake Up" paints a picture of a dystopian world where humanity is mired in conformity and the worship of false values. The lyrical hero is tossed in a nightmare where people are like slaves controlled by the propaganda of "false prophets" from the media. Society is fixated on power, money, and fame, turning them into a "new religion."

Waking up in the middle of the night symbolizes a glimmer of awareness, a moment of truth when the hero sees the world as it is – unvarnished. He realizes the illusory and transient nature of the existing order, predicting its inevitable collapse: "Every empire falls into the sea... Everything disappears with time."

However, the text also holds out hope for the better. The question "What if all the walls fall tonight?" carries the possibility of liberation, upheaval, destruction of the old world, and the construction of a new, more just one. This hope is supported by the confidence: "Everything will be alright, I'll be alright."

The final stanzas convey the hero's confusion and fear of the unknown. He finds himself in limbo between sleep and reality, life and death, unable to determine his true nature. The shadow, unlike his own, symbolizes an alien, frightening beginning that has penetrated his life.