Melissa Etheridge

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I Need To Wake Up

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I Need To Wake Up

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Have i been sleeping?

I've been so still

Afraid of crumbling

Have i been careless?

Dismissing all the distant rumblings

Take me where i am supposed to be

To comprehend the things that i can't see

Cause i need to move

I need to wake up

I need to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Something's got to break up

I've been asleep

And i need to wake up

Now

And as a child

I danced like it was 1999

My dreams were wild

The promise of this new world

Would be mine

Now i am throwing off the carelessness of youth

To listen to an inconvenient truth

That i need to move

I need to wake up

I need to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Something's got to break up

I've been asleep

And i need to wake up

Now

I am not an island

I am not alone

I am my intentions

Trapped here in this flesh and bone

And i need to move

I need to wake up

I need to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Something's got to break up

I've been asleep

And i need to wake up

Now

I want to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Oh, something's got to break up

I've been asleep

And i need to wake up

Now

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