Lirik dan Chord Lagu Wake Up Everybody - John Legend & The Roots

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Wake Up Everybody" merupakan sebuah lagu lawas yang dibawakan oleh grup musik The Roots bersama John Legend.

The Roots sendiri dikenal sebagai grup musik yang kerap menemani Jimmy Fallon dalam acaranya, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Lagu ini dibawakan bersama Common dan Melanie Fiona untuk album kolaboratif bertajuk Wake Up! yang rilis pada 2010.

Pada tahun yang sama, lagu ini masuk nominasi penghargaan Grammy Award untuk kategori Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

Simak lirik dan chord lagu "Wake Up Everybdy" dari John Legend dan The Roots berikut ini.

[Verse 1: John Legend]
D#m                            G#m
Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed
                                                    B
No more backward thinking, time for thinking ahead
D#m                                      G#m
The world has changed so very much from what it used to be
                                       B
There is so much hatred, war, and poverty

[Verse 2: Melanie Fiona]
D#m                      G#m
Wake up all the teachers, time to teach a new way
                                               B
Maybe then they'll listen to what you have to say
D#m           G#m
Cause they're the ones who's coming up, and the world is in their hands
                                                                             B
When you teach the children, teach them the very best you can

[Hook: John Legend & Melanie Fiona]
Bm    Cm7                   D#m    E
The world won't get no better
G#m  D         D#m
If we just let it be
Bm Cm7                      D#m        E
The world won't get no better
           B                                          F#
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me

[Verse 3: John Legend]
D#m           G#m
Wake up all the doctors, make the old people well
                                                 B
They're the ones who suffer and who catch all the hell
D#m            G#m
But they don't have so very long before their Judgment Day
                                                                   B
So won't you make them happy before they pass away

[Verse 4: Melanie Fiona]
D#m           G#m
Wake up, all the builders time to build a new land
                                             B
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
D#m             G#m
The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind
                                                                 B
Surely things will work out, cause they do every time

[Ulangi Hook]

[Bridge Rap: Common]
  D#m                   G#m
It's the God hour, the morning I wake up
D#m                        G#m
Just for the breath of life I thank my maker
D#m      G#m
My mom say I come from hustlers and shakers
D#m            G#m
My mind build-ed on skyscrapers and acres
D#m                 G#m
He said take us back to where we belong
D#m                  G#m
I try to write a song as sweet as the Psalms
D#m                   G#m
Though I'm the type to bear arms and wear my heart on my sleeve
D#m                     G#m
Even when I fell, in God I believe
D#m             G#m
Breathe the days in
D#m                   G#m
Weave through the maze and the season so amazing
D#m           G#m
Feed them and raise them
D#m                       G#m
Seasons are aging: earthquakes, wars, and rumors
D#m                  G#m
I want us to get by but we're more then consumers
D#m                 G#m
We're more than shooters, more than looters
D#m          G#m
Created in his image, so God live through us
D#m          G#m
And even in this generation living through computers
D#m G#m
Only love, love, love can reboot us

[Outro]
D#m    G#m
Wake up, everybody
D#m     G#m
Wake up, everybody
D#m    G#m
Need a little help, y'all
D#m      G#m
Yes I do, need a little help

D#m      G#m
Need a little help, y'all ay
D#m   G#m
Wake up everybody
D#m    G#m
Wake up everybody
D#m    G#m
Wake up everybody