In the morning I wake up

And don't want to get out of bed

I couldn't sleep last night

With everything in my head

 

I was thinking about college

And the rest of my life

And I just couldn't help but wonder

Where's all of the strife?

 

Everyone's complaining

About having to go to school

While just across the city

It's simply cruel

 

Someone's being beaten

Another is being starved

Slowly losing sanity

Their wrists are being carved

 

They've lost their freedom

They've lost their lives

Some of them hoping

They don't survive

 

And suddenly it's all so trivial

The work and the long nights

In fact it's all worth it

To help people redeem their rights

 

So the reason I get up in the morning

Isn't for waffles, books or the sun

It's because even if nobody else does

I'm going to help someone