John Legend, The Roots, Melanie Fiona, Common - Wake Up Everybody lyrics
John Legend [John Roger Stephens] Springfield, Ohio, U.S. 🇺🇸
Common [Lonnie Rashid Lynn] Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 🇺🇸
[John Legend, The Roots, Melanie Fiona, Common - Wake Up Everybody lyrics]
Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed
No more backward thinking
Time for thinking ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be
There is so much hatred, war, and poverty
Wake up all the teachers
Time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to what
You have to say
Cause they're the ones who's coming up
And the world is in their hands
When you teach the children
Teach them the very best you can
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me
Wake up all the doctors
Make the old people well
They're the ones who suffer and
Who catch all the hell
But they don't have so very
Long before their Judgment Day
So won't you make them happy
Before they pass away
Wake up
All the builders time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do
Is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out
Cause they do every time
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me
It's the God hour, the morning I wake up
Just for the breath of life I thank my maker
My mom say I come from hustlers and shakers
My mind build-ed on skyscrapers and acres
He said take us back to where we belong
I try to write a song as sweet as the Psalms
Though I'm the type to bear arms and
Wear my heart on my sleeve
Even when I fell, in God I believe
Breathe the days in
Weave through the maze and
The season so amazing
Feed them and raise them
Seasons are aging: earthquakes, wars
And rumors i want us to get by
But we're more then consumers
We're more than shooters, more than looters
Created in his image, so God live through us
And even in this generation
Living through computers
Only love, love, love can reboot us
Wake up, everybody wake up, everybody
Need a little help, y'all
Yes I do, need a little help
Need a little help, y'all ay
Wake up everybody wake up everybody
Wake up everybody
No more backward thinking
Time for thinking ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be
There is so much hatred, war, and poverty
Wake up all the teachers
Time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to what
You have to say
Cause they're the ones who's coming up
And the world is in their hands
When you teach the children
Teach them the very best you can
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me
Wake up all the doctors
Make the old people well
They're the ones who suffer and
Who catch all the hell
But they don't have so very
Long before their Judgment Day
So won't you make them happy
Before they pass away
Wake up
All the builders time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do
Is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out
Cause they do every time
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me
It's the God hour, the morning I wake up
Just for the breath of life I thank my maker
My mom say I come from hustlers and shakers
My mind build-ed on skyscrapers and acres
He said take us back to where we belong
I try to write a song as sweet as the Psalms
Though I'm the type to bear arms and
Wear my heart on my sleeve
Even when I fell, in God I believe
Breathe the days in
Weave through the maze and
The season so amazing
Feed them and raise them
Seasons are aging: earthquakes, wars
And rumors i want us to get by
But we're more then consumers
We're more than shooters, more than looters
Created in his image, so God live through us
And even in this generation
Living through computers
Only love, love, love can reboot us
Wake up, everybody wake up, everybody
Need a little help, y'all
Yes I do, need a little help
Need a little help, y'all ay
Wake up everybody wake up everybody
Wake up everybody