Melissa Etheridge - I Need to Wake Up lyrics

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Have I been sleeping?

I've been so still, afraid of crumbling

Have I been careless?

Dismissing all the distant rumblings

Take me where I am supposed to be

To comprehend the things that I can't see

'Cause I need to move, I need to wake up

I need to change, I need to shake up

I need to speak out, something's got to break up

I've been asleep and I need to wake up now

And as a child I danced like it was 1999

And my dreams were wild

The promise of this new world would be mine

Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth

To listen to an inconvenient truth

That I need to move, I need to wake up

I need to change, I need to shake up

I need to speak out, something's got to break up

I've been asleep and I need to wake up now

I am not an island

I am not alone

I am my intentions

Trapped here in this flesh and bone

And I need to move, I need to wake up

I need to change, I need to shake up

I need to speak out, something's got to break up

I've been asleep and I need to wake up now

I want to change, I need to shake up

I need to speak out, oh, something's got to break up

I've been asleep and I need to wake up now