Me and 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 on waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change We keep on waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change Hard to beat the system When we're standing at a distance So we keep on waiting, yeah 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, yeah Waiting on the world to change We keep on waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change Not that we don't care We just know that the fight ain't fair So we keep on waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change And we're still waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change We keep on waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change One day the younger generation Is gonna rule the population So we keep on waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change Keep on waiting, yeah Waiting on the world to change Waiting on the world to change Waiting on the world to change Waiting on the world to change