BEST ORIGINAL SONG Academy Award - "I Need To Wake Up" Melissa Etheridge ('An Inconvenient Truth')

[Hissyspit]

Just announced.



MELISSA upon accepting: "Caring about the Earth is not Republican or Democrat."


I Need To Wake Up
Melissa Etheridge

Have I been sleeping?
I’ve been so still
Afraid of crumbling
Have I been careless?
Dismissing all the distant rumblings
Take me where I am supposed to be
To comprehend the things that I can’t see

Cause I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

And as a child
I danced like it was 1999
My dreams were wild
The promise of this new world
Would be mine
Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth
To listen to an inconvenient truth

That I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change

I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

I am not an island
I am not alone
I am my intentions
Trapped here in this flesh and bone

And I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

I want to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Oh, Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Melissa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Melissa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chichiri]

2. Wow, you're FAST!!!

Niiiice!

I thought Patience would win, after hearing it -- those gals are talented! -- but yay Melissa!


Melissa thanks Al Gore.

[Nikki Stone1]

3. Gotta thank Al Gore!!

Woohoo!

[Scooter24]

4. Wow..did you have that pre-typed?

It was just announced a few seconds ago. lol

Way to go Melissa.

[Chichiri]

6. Heh, I've done that on occasion.

*shrug* Works for me. ;)

[Dinger]

5. Yay!!!!!!!! Wow, Instant Shivers!!!!! (AGAIN!!!!!)

Very, very, cool!! Wow, what a speech by Melissa!!!

[bdamomma]

14. yes, thanks Melissa for waking people up, also Al Gore.

[don954]

7. they must have me on a time delay

you quoted her before it aired for me!

[Pastiche423]

8. Wonderful acceptance speech

Al is waking everyone up!

Congrats, Melissa!

[Cha]

9. Awesome acceptance speech

by Melissa Etheridge who thanked her wife, four children, and Al Gore among others!

[bdamomma]

10. yes, it is Al's nite tonite

I hope bush and cheney are rolling in their own sh$t.

[swimmernsecretsea]

11. This is turning out to be a wonderful evening!

I'm crying, punching my fist in the air, dancing around, moved--this is just so much goodness! Whoo-hoo!
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[bdamomma]

15. this has been a nite of surprises hasn't it???

[swimmernsecretsea]

16. Oh, hell yeah!

I'm smiling like crazy! Can it get any better? I hope it can!

[Subdivisions]

12. Congratulations Melissa! n/t

[kestrel91316]

Can somebody post the lyrics for us all?

[depakid]

20. Video & Lyrics

Video:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x17614

Lyrics:

Have I been sleeping?
I’ve been so still
Afraid of crumbling
Have I been careless?
Dismissing all the distant rumblings
Take me where I am supposed to be
To comprehend the things that I can’t see

Cause I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

And as a child
I danced like it was 1999
My dreams were wild
The promise of this new world
Would be mine
Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth
To listen to an inconvenient truth

That I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change


I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

I am not an island
I am not alone
I am my intentions
Trapped here in this flesh and bone

And I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

I want to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Oh, Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/1872999091/Melissa_Etheridge/I_Need_to_Wake_Up

[Spazito]

13. Whooo Hooo! The documentary and the song both win, awesome!

We ALL won with these awards, imo. Climate change has gone BIG TIME now, thanks to Al Gore, the crew who made The Inconvenient Truth and Melissa Ethridge for her song!

WOW!

[Harper_is_Bush]

17. Excellent! And she used the opportunity to promote action on the crisis. Congrats and ty M.E.! n/t

[Wetzelbill]

18. she gave a classy speech too nt

[brettdale]

19. What did she say in her speech?

What did she say in her speech?

[NMMNG]

21. Melissa rocks!

:applause:

[Greeby]

22. As soon as she mentioned her wife, right-wing heads all across America did this

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:


;)

[Martin Eden]

23. When she mentioned HER WIFE in the acceptance speech ...

... I could almost hear fundies' heads exploding.