Artist: The Roots & John Legend f/ Common, Melanie Fiona Album: Wake Up! Song: Wake Up Everybody Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash {*33 seconds of instrumental to open*} [John Legend] 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 Ohhhhh yeahhh yes [Melanie Fiona] 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 comin up and the world is in their hands When you teach the children, teach them, the very best you cannn Ohhhhh yeah [Chorus: Legend & Fiona together] 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 [John Legend] Wake up all the doctors, make the old people well They're the ones who suffer, and who catch all the hell They don't have so very long, before their judgment day So won't you make them happy, before they pass away? Ohhh yeahhh [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 minds Surely things will work out, cause they do every time Yeahhhh-heahhhhh [Chorus] [Common] 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 building on skyscrapers and acres He said take us back to where we belong I try to write the song as sweet as the psalms though I'm the type to bear arms and wear my heart on my sleeve Even when I fail in God I believe Read the days and, weave through the maze And the seeds are 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 [John Legend + Melanie Fiona] Ohhhh wake up everybody no more sleeping in bed Ohhhh wake up everybody yeahhhh Gotta get up, gotta get up Said I need a little help, everybody, no more sleeping in bed I need a little help, everybody, c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon I need a little help y'all! Can't do it alone Oh I need a little help y'all! Gotta get up, gotta get up Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Wake up everybody, wake up everybody Wake up everybodyyyy, yeah