Waiting on the World to Change

While songs like Pink's Dear Mr. President can be polarizing and divisive, I believe there's a better way to present politics in music. Reminiscent of Lennon's peace-loving song Imagine is John Mayer's Waiting on the World to Change. His song boldly but pleasantly talks about our generation - of our complaints on the way things are, on world leaders and what's going wrong, but he sums us up perfectly: "One day our generation is gonna rule the population, so we keep on waiting - waiting on the world to change."

While I'm not a fan of posting lyrics in a blog, these are important, so they're down below.

Me and all my friends, we're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing - there's no way we ever could
Now we see everything is 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
Its hard to be persistant 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've never missed a Christmas, no more ribbons on the door
When you trust your television, what you get is what you got
Cuz when they own the information oh, they can bend it all they want

So while we're waiting, waiting on the world to change
It's not that we don't care, we just know that the fight aint fair
So we keep 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