"Wake Up" opens the album with guitars and piano followed by a
chorus lyric that proclaims "who cares, you might be dead". Colin Moulding explained: To write the song, Moulding started with a three-note piano figure, which he then overdubbed with two guitar
riffs. He said: "The track didn't really happen until [producer]
David Lord got hold of it. A local girl came in and sang the 'choir', tracked up a load of times." The song employs only a few different chords, a point that Gregory was dissatisfied with. He opined: "The coolest part of the song was the chopping guitars but Colin should have written a better song around that hook. It just went on forever doing nothing. It sounds a good way to start an album but it's not my idea of a musical experience." == Personnel ==