Wake Up Everybody (Live)

[Intro: John Legend & Alicia Keys] C'mon, happy Juneteenth! (Ayy) Celebration Wake up, everybody Shout out to Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes Teddy Pendergrass, rest in peace Wait for it Wait for it [Verse 1: John Legend] 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 There is so much hatred, war, and poverty Oh, oh, yeah, yeah [Verse 2: Melanie Fiona] 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 [Chorus: John Legend & Melanie Fiona] 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 [Verse 3: John Legend] Wake up all the doctors, make the old people well They're the ones who suffer and who catch all the hell (Catch all the hell) But they don't have so very long before their Judgment Day (Oh) So won't you make them happy before they pass away? Oh, yeah [Verse 4: Melanie Fiona] 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've gotta do is put it in our mind Surely things'll work out, 'cause they do every time Yeah [Chorus: John Legend & Alicia Keys] The world won't get no better If we just let it be, oh-oh The world won't get no better We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me (Mm, yes, we do) [Outro: Alicia Keys & John Legend] Right on time, yes, mane (Yeah) Melanie Fiona is so fire (Melanie), big love to you I wanna play this song That is the first time that I ever wrote— Wrote with and worked with Tony! Toni! Toné! (Ooh) Um, and man, oh, man Those brothers are so crazy So crazy, the musicianship and the whole thing is outrageous So definitely have to play, this is one of my favorites I remember, I li— I played the piano of this a hundred times Before I could ever find the words This was one of those ones You probably have those (Yes) And for whatever reason, the piano knew what it wanted to do but the words didn't Until finally, big love to Jermaine Paul, too It went like this