Wake Up Everybody - Keb' Mo'

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

Wake up, all the teachers, time to teach a new way

Maybe then they’ll listen to whatcha 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

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 an' who catch all the hell

But they don’t have so very long before the Judgment Day

So won’t you 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

The world won’t get no better

We gotta change it, yeah

Just you and me

Change it, yeah, change it, yeah

Just you and me

Change it, yeah, change it, yeah

Can’t do it alone, need some help y’all

Can’t do it alone, can’t do it alone

Wake up, everybody, wake up, everybody

Need a little help y’all, yes I do

Need a little help, need some help, y’all

Change the world to what it used to be

Can’t do it alone, need some help, yeah

Wake up, everybody, get up, get up

Get up, get up, wake up, come on, come on

Wake up, everybody, teach a new way

Maybe then they’ll listen to what you have to say

Wake up, everybody, no more sleepin' in bed

No more backward thinkin', time for thinkin' ahead

Come on now

Wake up, everybody

I’m talking 'bout, don’t push up, stop pushing that dope

Don’t use dope, stop using the dope, wake up, yeah

Wonder what you tell me now

Wonder what you tell me now

False preaching, yeah, yeah

False teaching, oh yeah

Wake up, y’all, come on

You preacher, stop preaching what you preach

Teach the truth, wake up, preachers

Politicians, well stop lying, stop lying

Why don’t somebody help the poor people

Help the people, stay on there, baby

You business man, stop cheating, stop cheating

Stop cheating, stop cheating, stop cheating, stop cheating

Wake up, yeah, wake up, yeah

Wake up, yeah, wake up, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, it don’t matter, yeah

What race, creed or color

Everybody, we need each other

Wake up, everybody

Well, you see, we need

Wake up, everybody, we need

Come on now, wake up, everybody, no more sleepin' in bed

No more backward thinkin', time for thinkin' ahead

Wake up, all you teachers, time to teach a new way

They’re the ones who suffer each and every day

Teach the children, teach the babies

Teach the babies, teach the children

Teach the children, teach the babies

Teach the children, teach the babies

They’re the ones who are coming up

They’re the ones who are coming up