I Need to Wake Up

I Need to Wake Up es una canción del año 2006 escrita por la compositora estadounidense Melissa Etheridge para el documental Una verdad incómoda (en inglés: An Inconvenient Truth), ganadora del premio Óscar a la mejor canción original de 2006.^[1]​

La canción fue lanzada al mercado el 11 de julio de 2006 con la compañía discográfica The Island Def Jam Music Group. Está clasificada como de género pop, con una duración de 3 min 35 s.

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

Oh 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

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