Separable verbs

Until this week I was a bit scared of separable verbs.  It felt a bit like Germans were doing something unkind with their verbs, cutting it in half like a magician's assistant and then banishing it to the end of the phrase.

But I realised....

We treat some of our verbs just as cruelly!

And I can even demonstrate this with an English song:

aufwachen = to wake up