Wyclef Jean Lyrics

Album: Unknown

New Day (Pop Radio Edit) Lyrics

(feat. Bono (U2))

 [Wyclef]

 We're gonna take ya back now, come on

 I like the way this is going down

 Ladies and gents

 Yo I'mma do this for the kids check it out

 Here we go, yo

 

 [Wyclef]

 We don't need no education (yeah)

 Says a young man sitting in class (yeah)

 School is out 3 o'clock on the dot (yeah)

 Beef with some thugs, he got shot (yeah)

 Turn on your television (yeah)

 Martin Luther King just had a dream (yeah)

 Take this dream and apply it to your life (yeah)

 Shorty's selling crack, is a talking job

 

 [Wyclef]

 To all my refugees, enough respect

 To all my juveniles, enough respect

 To all my war children, enough respect

 Now Bono won't you sing the hook, come on

 

 [Bono (Wyclef)]

 Keep your head up

 (Uh keep your head up)

 Cause a new day's gonna come

 (Every country got a ghetto, come on)

 And look towards the sun

 Some got the darkness all around

 (Everybody sing this part right here)

 

 [1 -Wyclef]

 Mama, mama

 You know you raised me with no father figure

 I wanna take this time to thank you

 Even though I'm doing Life

 Alright

 Mama, mama

 You know you raised me with no father figure

 And taken by machine gun trigger

 Out for giving me life

 

 [Wyclef]

 Yo, yo turn the page ready the news today

 People getting fired, some getting wild

 Looting on the streets cause the dogs gotta eat

 (Grrr!) By any means necessary

 Turning over the hour glass

 Gotta get it straight before it's too late

 Cause I don't wanna be behind that gate

 Now everybody sing the hook

 

 [Bono (Wyclef)]

 Keep your head up

 (Your head up, your head up)

 Cause a new day's gonna come

 (For the new millennium)

 And look towards the sun

 Some got the darkness all around

 (Everybody sing this part right here)

 

 [Repeat 1]

 

 [Wyclef]

 My people in the front, everybody in the buck

 Hey yo raise the roof up in the air, come on

 And just raise the roof for all my people trying to eat

 Stomp your feet on the floor come on and just stomp

 Stomp, stomp, stomp

 Introducing Bono, straight out of Dublin

 

 [Bono (Wyclef)]

 Midnight she's on the street, she can't sleep

 She's afraid to dream

 Ten years old, my Spanish rose

 You see things you never should have seen

 Midnight she's on the street, oh she can't sleep

 She's afraid to dream

 Ten years old, my Spanish rose

 You see things you never should have seen

 (Let me do the guitar solo right here)

 (I want all you kids to stand right now, come on let me hear y'all)

 

 [Bono & Children's Choir (Wyclef)]

 Keep your head up

 Cause a new day's gonna come

 (Ha, ha)

 And look towards the sun

 Some got the darkness all around

 (All my broke people sing this part right here)

 

 [Repeat 1]

 

 [Wyclef]

 Hey, hey, hey, hey

 Wyclef and Bono

 Jerry Wonder in the back

 I let the DJ cut the wax

 Y'all need to stop it with the violence

 True Refugee combination

 Dublin, Brooklyn, New Jersey, ya hear

 Trying to find a new year