John Legend And The Roots' official music video for 'Wake Up Everybody ft. Melanie Fiona & Common'. Click to listen to John Legend on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/JohnLSpotify?IQid=JohnLRoWUE As featured on Wake Up!. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes: http://smarturl.it/JohnLRoWUiTunes?IQid=JohnLRoWUE Google Play: http://smarturl.it/JohnLWUEplay?IQid=JohnLRoWUE Amazon: http://smarturl.it/JohnLRoWUAmz?IQid=JohnLRoWUE More from John Legend You & I (Nobody In The World): https://youtu.be/Pi3bc9lS3rg All Of Me: https://youtu.be/450p7goxZqg Made To Love: https://youtu.be/nRpjsFcb2uo Follow John Legend Website: http://www.johnlegend.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnlegend Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnlegend Subscribe to John Legend on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/JohnLSub?IQid=JohnLRoWUE More great Global Hits videos here: http://smarturl.it/GlobalHits?IQid=JohnLRoWUE --------- Lyrics: 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

• published: 18 Aug 2010
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