"I Need To Wake Up"

by Melissa Etheridge

The Melissa Etheridge single created for Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth took home the award for Best Original Song Written For A Motion Picture at this year's Academy Awards ceremony! The movie also won the award for Best Documentary Feature.

She's singing it now on Bravo, and it's awesome live.

Check out her site. She's for real.
http://www.melissaetheridge.com/


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

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
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

just a comment, many people desire to be awake.. desire is the snare that makes it imposable.

derails every bodhisattva out there.

of suffering, the logical proposition is the 4 Noble Truths

via PM. The thread's getting kinda off topic.