Wake Up Everybody
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John Legend, The Roots, Melanie Fiona, Common
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(birds chirping)
♪ Good morning ♪
- Wake up, wake up,
wake up, wake up, ya'll.
This is Black Torch, your
boss DJ from around the way,
and you are listening to WAKE radio,
spreading tunes across your rooms.
From Marvin Gaye to Hathaway,
from Nina Simone to Pendergrass,
we pay tribute to the legends of the past,
and introduce the legends of the future.
Special big up to my man Johnny Stevens,
who shares his passion with us every day.
Wake up, New York.
(gentle music)
♪ 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 ♪
♪ And there is so much
hatred, war, and poverty ♪
♪ Oh, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ And the world is in their hands ♪
♪ When you teach the children ♪
♪ Teach them the very best you can ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ The world won't get no better ♪
♪ If we just let it be ♪
♪ Oh, no ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ The world won't get no better ♪
♪ If we just let it be ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ The world won't get no better ♪
♪ We gotta change it, yeah ♪
♪ Just you and me ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ 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 mom build it 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'm the type to bare arms ♪
♪ And wear my heart on my sleeve ♪
♪ Even when I fell in God I believe ♪
♪ Read the days that
weave through the maze ♪
♪ And the seasons 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, come on ♪
♪ Oh, wake up, everybody,
no more sleeping in bed ♪
♪ Oh, wake up, everybody, yeah ♪
♪ We're gonna need a little help ♪
♪ Can't do it alone ♪
♪ Oh, need a little help, y'all ♪
♪ Come on, come on, come on, come on ♪
♪ I need a little help, y'all ♪
♪ Can't do it alone ♪
♪ Oh, I need a little help, y'all ♪
♪ Can't do it alone ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Wake up, everybody ♪
♪ Wake up, everybody ♪
♪ Wake up, everybody ♪
(traffic honking)
(siren wailing)