Common & John Legend & Melanie Fiona & The Roots - Wake up everybody lyrics

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<b>Wake up everybody</b> by <i>Common & John Legend & Melanie Fiona & The Roots</i><br />[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 oh-oh-yeah

[Melanie Fiona]

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

[John Legend & Melanie Fiona]

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

[John Legend]

Wake up, all the doctors

Make the old people well

They're the ones who suffer

And who catch all the hell (And who catch all the hell)

But they don't have so very long

Before the Judgment Day (ooh)

So wont'cha make them happy

Before they pass away

[Melanie Fiona]

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 we do it every time

[John Legend & Melanie Fiona]

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

Were we belong

I try to write a song

We're more than consumers

[John Legend + Melanie Fiona]

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