Africa Must Wake Up (Feat. K'Naan)

Morning to you, man
Morning to you, love
Hey, I say, I say

Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday, we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today? Yeah, now

Well, Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday, we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today? Yeah, now

The black oasis, Ancient Africa the sacred
Awaken the sleeping giant, science, art is your creation
I dreamt that we could visit old Kemet
Your history is too complex and rigid for some Western critics
They want the whole subject diminished
But Africa's the origin of all the world's religions
We praised bridges that carried us over
The battle front of Sudanic soldiers
The task put before us

Yeah, hear me out, Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday, we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today? Yeah, now

Well, Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday, we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today?

Who are we today? The slums, diseases, AIDS
We need all that to fade, we cannot be afraid
So who are we today? We are the morning after
The makeshift youth the slave ship captured
Our diaspora, is the final chapter
The ancestral lineage built pyramids
America's first immigrant
The kings, sons and daughters from Nile waters
The first architect, the first philosophers
Astronomers, the first prophets and doctors was us

Yeah, now can we all pray? Each in his own way
Teaching and Learning, we can work it out
We'll have a warm bed, we'll have some warm bread
And shelter from the storm dread, and we can work it out
Mother Nature feeds all In famine and drought
Tell those selfish in ways, not to share us out
What's a tree without root? Lion without tooth
A lie without truth, yeah, hear me out

Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday, we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today? Yeah, now

Well, Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may some more of come
Yesterday, we were kings, I tell ya, young blood
Just where is yours today?

Dadyahow daali waayey, nabada diideen
Oo ninkii doortay dinta, waadinka dillee
Oo dal markii ladhiso, waadinka dunshee
Oo daacad ninkii damcay, waadinka dooxee

Dadyahow daali waayey, nabada diideen
Oo ninkii doortay dinta, waadinka dillee
Oo dal markii ladhiso, waadinka dunshee
Oo daacad ninkii damcay, waadinka dooxee

We want to thank y'all, everybody out there
This is Nas, Damian Marley, Distant Relatives
We're all distant relatives no matter where you from
Where you live, how near, how far

Africa, China, Japan, Afghanistan, Israel
We're all family, we're all distant relatives
So that's why we came together
One of the reasons myself and Damian came together

Because we all come from one place and that's Africa
That's right, you too, and you, the whole world, we're all family
We're just spread out all over the place
So to all my distant relatives, let's take it back home

Huh, I say, well, Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday, we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today? Yeah, now

Well, Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday, we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today? Who are we today?

Morning to you
Morning to you, man
Morning to you, love