Album Name

Wake Up Everybody (Feat. Common And Melanie Fiona)

Artist

John Legend, The Roots

Genre

R&B/Soul

Release Date

2010.07.19

Release Agency

Sony Music

Wake Up Everybody - John Legend
Wake up everybody
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin'
Time for thinkin' ahead
The world has changed
So very much
From what it used to be
There is so much hatred
War and poverty whoa oh
Wake up all the teachers
Time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen
To what'cha 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 'em the very best
you can
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be na na na
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 the Judgment Day
So wont'cha 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
They do it every time
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be na na na
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 builded 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 am the type to bear
arms and wear my heart
on my sleeve
Even when I fell in God
I believe
We the days at
Weave through the maze
and the season so amazing
Feed them and raise them
Seasons are asian
Earthquakes wars
and rumors
I want us to get by but we
more then consumers
We more than shooters
More than looters
Created in his image
So God live through us
And even in his generation
living through computers
On 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