(with The Roots, feat. Common & Melanie Fiona)
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Wake up everybody
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No more sleepin' in bed
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No more backward thinkin'
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Time for thinkin' ahead
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The world has changed
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So very much
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From what it used to be
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There is so much hatred
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War and poverty, whoa, oh
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Wake up, all the teachers
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Time to teach a new way
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Maybe then they'll listen
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To what'cha have to say
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'Cause they're the ones who's coming up
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And the world is in their hands
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When you teach the children
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Teach 'em the very best you can
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The world won't get no better
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If we just let it be
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The world won't get no better
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We gotta change it, yeah
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Just you and me
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Wake up, all the doctors
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Make the old people well
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They're the ones who suffer
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And who catch all the hell
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But they don't have so very long
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Before the Judgment Day
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So wont'cha make them happy
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Before they pass away
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Wake up, all the builders
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Time to build a new land
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I know we can do it
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If we all lend a hand
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The only thing we have to do
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Is put it in our minds
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Surely things will work out
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'Cause they do every time
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The world won't get no better
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If we just let it be
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The world won't get no better
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We gotta change it, yeah
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Just you and me
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It's the God hour, the morning I wake up
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Just for the breath of life I thank my maker
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My mom say I come from hustlers and shakers
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My mind building on skyscrapers and acres
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He said take us back to where we belong
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I try to write a song as sweet as the Psalms
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Though I am the type to bear arms and wear my heart on my sleeve
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Even when I fell in God I believe
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We the days at
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Weave through the maze and the season so amazing
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Feed them and raise them
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Seasons are agin'
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Earthquakes, wars and rumors
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I want us to get by but we more then consumers
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We more than shooters
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More than looters,
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Created in his image,
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So God live through us,
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And even in this generation living through computers
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Only love, love, love can reboot us
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Wake up, everybody
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Wake up, everybody
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Need a little help, y'all
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Yes I do, need a little help
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Need a little help, y'all
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Wake up everybody
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Wake up everybody
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Wake up everybody
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Wake Up Everybody
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| John Legend |
