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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, 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, 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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They do it every time |
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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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Change it, yeah |
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Change it, yeah |
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Just you and me |
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Change it, yeah |
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Change it, yeah |
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Can't do it alone |
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Can't do it alone |
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Need some help, y'all |
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Can't do it alone |
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Can't do it alone, yeah, yeah |
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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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Just you need a little help |
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Need some y'all |
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To change the world |
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What it used to be |
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Can't do it alone |
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Can't do it alone |
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Need some help, yeah |
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Need some help, yeah |
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Wake up, everybody |
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Get up, get up |
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Get up, get up |
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Wake up, come on, come on |
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Wake up, everybody |
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Teach a new way |
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Maybe then they'll listen |
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To what you have to say |
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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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Come on |
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Wake up, everybody |
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I'm talkin' about the dope pusher |
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Stop pushin' that dope |
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Dope users |
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Stop usin' the dope |
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Wake up, yeah |
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False lyin' |
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False preachin' |
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False teachin' |
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Wake up, y'all |
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Come on |
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You preachers |
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Start preachin' what you teach |
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Teach the truth |
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Wake up, preachers |
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All liars |
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Politicians |
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Stop lyin' |
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Why don't someone |
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Help the poor people |
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Help the babies |
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You businessmen |
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Start treatin' |
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Start treatin' |
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Start treatin' |
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Wake up, yeah |
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Wake up, yeah |
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Wake up, yeah |
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Wake up, yeah |
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Yeah, yeah |
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Now it don't matter |
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What race, creed or color |
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Everybody we need each other |
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Wake up, everybody |
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You see |
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We need |
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Wake up, everybody |
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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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Wake up, all you teachers |
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Time to teach a new way |
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They're the ones that suffer |
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Each and every day |
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Teach the children |
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Teach the babies |
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Teach the children |
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Teach the babies |
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Teach the children |
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They're the ones who's coming out |