1. Read the lyrics from John Mayer’s song “Waiting on the World to Change” from his third album Continuum (listen here) and in your own words, paraphrase the text below.

When you paraphrase a text, it should be approximately the same length as the original text and in your own words.

Me and all my friends

We're all misunderstood

They say we stand for nothing and

There's no way we ever could

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

So we keep waiting (waiting)

Waiting on the world to change

We keep on waiting (waiting)

Waiting on the world to change

Now if we had the power

To bring our neighbors home from war

They woulda never missed a Christmas

No more ribbons on their door

And when you trust your television

What you get is what you got

'Cause when they own the information, oh

They can bend it all they want

It's not that we don't care

We just know that the fight ain't fair

So we keep on waiting (waiting)

Waiting on the world to change

2. Provide both an in-text citation at the end of your paraphrase and a Works Cited at the end of your paraphrase.