| 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 best way you can
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| The world won’t get no better
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| If we just let it be, na, na, na
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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 everybody
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| And look at the storm comin'
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| Blood in the streets
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| And the tears in my eyes runnin'
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| Recognize who I am
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| Release 'em out the can
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| Never was an animal or three fourths of a man
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| They set this up for peacefully
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| Wasn’t in God’s plan
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| If we all created equally
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| Why these officers beatin' me?
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| Divided as a people
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| Then all we need is some unity
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| A unified front and then we build our community
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| Put our pennies together
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| And put an end to poverty
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| And violence is not the answer
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| War’s worser than cancer
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| But peace can never come
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| With frustration and anger
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| A nation that’s divided
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| Well that’s a nation in danger
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| The world won’t get no better
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| If we just let it be, na, na, na
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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 |