"Wake Up Everybody" lyrics
(with The Roots, feat. Common & Melanie Fiona)
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
The world is in their hands
When you teach the children, teach them the very best you can, hey
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be, whoa
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, oh
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 it every time, hey
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be, whoa
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 aging
Earthquakes, wars and rumors
I want us to get by but we more than consumers
We 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
no more sleeping in bed
Wake up everybody
'Cause I need a little help
Can't do it alone
I need a little help
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
I need a little help, ya'll
I can't do it alone
I need a little help, ya'll
I can't do it alone
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
The world is in their hands
When you teach the children, teach them the very best you can, hey
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be, whoa
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, oh
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 it every time, hey
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be, whoa
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 aging
Earthquakes, wars and rumors
I want us to get by but we more than consumers
We 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
no more sleeping in bed
Wake up everybody
'Cause I need a little help
Can't do it alone
I need a little help
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
I need a little help, ya'll
I can't do it alone
I need a little help, ya'll
I can't do it alone
Wake up, everybody
Wake up, everybody
Wake up, everybody
Thanks to abby, Vincenzo87, ANTONIO L WILLIAMS, Jill Hinckley-Noble, Steven the Dino for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Victor Carstarphen
