Wake Up Everybody - Thelma Houston

Wake up, wake up

You’ve got the power

Why don’t you wake up, why don’t you?

Why don’t you wake up?

Why don’t you wake up, why don’t you?

Why don’t you wake up?

Set it off for the plan up here, we gotta stand up here

An' give thanks to the man upstairs

Put the egos an' the pride to the side, regardless

An' just be role models, parents, artists

We can make a change an' we can make it the hardest

If you gon' make the babies, you make 'em the smartest

Let 'em know good an' bad, right from wrong

How to roll with the poachers, when life moves on

An' the stress won’t take toll, if you don’t sweat it

World won’t get no better, if we don’t let it

Let the negative energy ride, keep hope alive

It’s 'bout time that we opened out eyes, wake up

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, time for thinkin', thinkin'

Yep, we all best to vote

I don’t care about the guns you tote

Listen to me like you listened to Fahrenheit 9 11

Ain’t no time for the second guessin'

The words I speak, wake up, the ones who sleep

Now leave the ships, fix your mouth to teach

MCs teach the kids what’s peace

They don’t have to worry 'bout the police

We make 'em rich so they don’t have to thief

Every artist here on this track

Will make a change here for young cats

This is for everybody, white or black

You better go an' vote an' get up off your back

I ain’t here to take up y’all time

I came to shake up y’all mind, it’s everybody’s wake up call time

I can’t sleep too long while they do the people wrong

Let’s clean the world up before they sweep then gone

This is real talk, you can peep through songs

So when you feel weak, these words will keep you strong

Help make a change for the better

It’s hard for one to do it

But we can make some change if we do it together

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, time for thinkin', thinkin'

Why don’t you wake up, why don’t you?

Why don’t you wake up?

Why don’t you wake up, why don’t you?

Why don’t you wake up?

Scream, «Peace», do we mean it?

Can you feel it when we scream it out loud?

Do you believe that we need it?

Do you believe that it could get right?

Do you believe that the children of the world deserve a good life?

Well, if you do, it’s time to wake up your mind

We can make it better an' I know it might take some time

But we gotta start somewhere, how 'bout wit you an' me

From us it goes to others, then we’ll have our unity

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, time for thinkin', thinkin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, no more sleepin'

Wake up everybody, time for thinkin', thinkin'

But they don’t have so very long before their judgement day