Wake Up Children - Commodores

People, won’t you listen

To the story I wanna tell

About this world we’re living in

I hope you listen well

We’re avoiding all the problems

And we’ve thrown away the truth

With brothers fighting brothers

The devils on the loose

We’ve lost the word humanity

Yes, in God we trust

The things we called invincible

Have now all turned to dust

Yeah, yeah

I see a world that’s hungry

A world that full of fears

Reaching out for happiness

For drowning in their tears

We’ve polluted all the waters

The food and, yes, the air

We’re killing our great mother earth

Does anybody care

Yeah, do you care

Ooh, yeah

Wake up, children, oh, yeah

Wake up, children

And what about the children

And the generations to come

Will they look back on our history

And curse the things we’ve done

All it takes is a decision

And it’s one we’ll have to make

To save our world and all mankind

I hope it’s not too late

Yeah, not too late

Wake up, children, ooh, yeah

Wake up, children

I wanna talk to you this evening, children

(Wake up, children)

I wanna tell you a story that you need to hear

(Wake up, children)

Yeah, brother to brother, can’t you hear me talking

(Wake up, children)

Sister to sister, can’t you hear me talking

(Wake up, children)

Nation to nation, can’t you hear me talking

(Wake up, children)

Yeah, we’ve got to love one another…