John Mayer, Waiting on the World to Change Flash Cards

· The song, Waiting on the World to Change, by John Mayer was released in 2006.

· After many controversial issues had happened, such as the twin towers attack on 9/11, followed by the Iraq war.

· There are many speculations as to who was behind the September 11. The FBI found evidence linking the responsibility to Al-Qaeada

· There were many angry protesters devastated about these attacks, which resulted in numerous marches.

· However, a lot of these did not become successful. There was a large number of Muslims ready to protest what Al-Qaeada supposedly lead, however, a mere ten people showed up for the rally.

· A vast majority of the American nation were affected by 9/11. It is estimated that 422,000 people suffered from post-traumatic stress as a result.

· However, it is exceedingly difficult to find any evidence on large protests or marches, though the entire population were asking for peace

· John Mayers song, Waiting on the World to Change presents the public with the idea that instead of taking action against the bad things happening in the world, we sit down and wait for someone else to do it.

· This is a lot like what I mentioned before, when thousands of Muslims were upset about what happened but only ten turned up for the protest.

· The main lyric that John Mayer presents his opinion with is, ‘We keep waiting, waiting on the world to change’

· Mayer is not only saying that people sit back because of laziness however. He also presents us with the fact that we don’t think that we’re personally important enough to change these things.

· Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it

· John Mayer, in these lyrics, says that it’s not that we don’t care, however, we don’t personally feel as if we overcome these issues.

Song also relates too 2003 when the United States invaded Iraq.

· The American reason was that Saddam Hussein supposedly had weapons of mass destruction.