Enlightenment music

Doug McCrary
Waiting on The World to Change 
By John Mayer

John Mayer is an American musician. he was born in Connecticut, attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997. His song, "Waiting on The World to Change" embodies the Enlightenment because its connection to changing the world. He talks about how people are notice what is going wrong and can't change it. His song is similar to the Enlightenment by saying "With the world and those who lead it, we just feel like we dont have the means to rise above and beat it." later in the song, he talks about how the television "owns" information and will "bend it all they want. This song can relate to the beliefs of the philososhe John Locke. John Locke stated that "Citizens have the right to overthrow the government when their "natural rights" are violated.

Lyrics:

Me and all my friends

We're all misunderstood

They say we stand for nothing and

There's no way we ever could

Now we see everything that's going wrong

With the world and those who lead it

We just feel like we don't have the means

To rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting

Waiting on the world to change

We keep on waiting

Waiting on the world to change

It's hard to beat the system

When we're standing at a distance

So we keep waiting

Waiting on the world to change

Now if we had the power

To bring our neighbors home from war

They would have never missed a Christmas

No more ribbons on their door

And when you trust your television

What you get is what you got

Cause when they own the information, oh

They can bend it all they want

That's why we're waiting

Waiting on the world to change

We keep on waiting

Waiting on the world to change

It's not that we don't care,

We just know that the fight ain't fair

So we keep on waiting

Waiting on the world to change

And we're still waiting

Waiting on the world to change

We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change

One day our generation

Is gonna rule the population

So we keep on waiting

Waiting on the world to change


We keep on waiting

Waiting on the world to change