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Shawn Gallaway has been chosen as a finalist for his song “Wake Up America.”

Nashville is Shawn’s home base, from which he spent over twenty years writing, recording, and performing across the nation in venues including the Broadway Music Hall in Seattle, Portland’s Living Enrichment Center, Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, NC, and Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre. He also became a successful composer with E.M.I. and Sony Tree publishing credits. Shawn is also a visual artist, author, ceremonial healer, workshop facilitator, energy worker and Certified Lifeline Practitioner. He has traveled throughout the world sharing his message of healing through the arts, branding Conscious Music a movement calling attention to the significance and to the consequences choice has in our lives. Find out more at www.facebook.com/shawngallawaymusic

lyrics

WAKE UP AMERICA
Shawn Gallaway,
Lance Hoppen

I can see the soiled sheets
Mired in fear’s belief
Religion in bed with politics
Created worlds of war and grief
Now this masquerading of the Master
Has gone on for way to long
Now I’m asking you America
Who would Jesus bomb

Wake up America love yourself
It’s time to see
the light
come back to the common
wealth

Wake up America while we still have our dream
And let’s walk with the Master
Wake up America
Let your heart be seen

I can feel the hollow bellies
Of children with nothing to eat
While the fat cats on Wall Street
Find another way to cheat
Now have we become slaves
Abandoned our own hearts
Now I’m asking you America
Who would Martin Luther King starve

Wake up America
free yourself
It’s time to live
the light
restore the common wealth
Wake up America while we still have our dream
And let’s walk with the Masters
Wake up America
Let your love be seen

Now we’re calling on the Truth
Forming higher ideals
Reviving integrity
So the earth and her children
can heal

I can hear her crying rape
In the destruction of her lands
In the search for bigger profits
For a few filthy hands
Now we’re suffering here at home
From all this corporate greed
Now I’m asking you America
Who would we the people bleed

Wake up America forgive yourself
It’s time to be the light
rebuild the common wealth
Wake up America while we still have our dream
And let’s walk with the Masters
Wake up America
Let your soul be seen
Wake up America we still have our dream
Wake up America
Let your heart and your soul be seen
Wake up America

credits

from Songs for Social Change Volume 7, released February 27, 2023
Written by Shawn Gallaway and Lance Hoppen and performed by Shawn Gallaway

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