I Need to Wake Up

Composer, lyrics, sing by Melissa Etheridge


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

This song was written for the 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, by Melissa Etheridge. Melissa Etheridge is one of the American rock musician, meanwhile she also the famous gay right activist. Her coming out of the closet in the year 1993 hadn't stop her from anything despite she has won twice of the Grammy Award for the Best Female Vocal Performance in 1992 and 1994. And she just won the Oscar Award in 2007 for this song " I Need To Wake Up".

Unfortunely that Melissa was diagnosed with breast cancer in the year of 2004, and fight for her life through the chemotherapy. She survived and return to the Grammy Award stage in 2005 with bald, however she was the highlight of that night. Melissa Etheridge has done great music and provide great songs beside this song " I Need To Wake Up", her other songs are such as " "Breathe", "I Run For Life", "Come To My Window", "This Is Not Goodbye" and others.