JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Waiting on The World to Change" adalah lagu pembuka dalam album Continuum milik John Mayer.
Lagu ini dirilis pada 2006 bersama 11 lagu lain dalam album tersebut.
Kemudian, pada 2007 John Mayer menyabet dua Grammy sekaligus untuk album Continuum pada kategori Best Pop Vocal Album dan Album of the Year.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Why Georgia, Lagu dari Album Pertama John Mayer
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Waiting on The World to Change" dari John Mayer.
[Intro]
D Bm G D
A Bm G D
[Verse]
D Bm G D
Me and all my friends, we're all misunderstood.
A Bm G D
They say we stand for nothin', and there's no way we ever could.
D Bm G D
Now we see everythin' that's going wrong with the world and those who lead it
A Bm G D
We just feel like we don't have the means to rise above and beat it.
[Chorus]
D Bm D
So we keep waitin', waitin' on the world to change.
A Bm G D
We keep on waitin', waitin' on the world to change.
D Em Bm Em
It's hard to beat the system, when you're standin' at a distance,
A Bm G D
So we keep waitin', waitin' on the world to change.
[Verse]
D Bm G D
Now if we had the power to bring our neighbors home from war
A Bm G D
They would have never missed a Christmas, no more ribbons on their door
D Bm G D
And when you trust your television, what you get is what you got
A Bm G D
'Cause when they own the information, oh, they can bend it all they want
[Chorus]
D Bm G D
That's why we're waitin', waitin' on the world to change
A Bm G D
We keep on waitin', waitin' on the world to change
D Em Bm Em
It's not that we don't care, we just know that the fight ain't fair
A Bm G D
So we keep on waitin', waitin' on the world to change
[Chorus]
D Bm G D
And we're still waitin', waitin' on the world to change
A Bm G D
We keep on waitin', waitin' on the world to change
D Em Bm Em
One day our generation, is gonna rule the population
A Bm G D
So we keep on waitin', waitin' on the world to change
A Bm G D
Now we keep on waitin', waitin' on the world to change
A Bm G D
We keep on waitin', waitin' on the world to change.
[Outro]
G D
Waitin' on the world to change (x4)