Songs that I love

When I was in high school there was a student doing a speech telling us about how John Mayer had a song talking about waiting on the world to change. They then implored us as young people to not heed his advice and change ourselves instead of waiting and doing nothing. I totally agreed and felt like this person was light years ahead of me as an intellectual. I'm now 20 years old and 4 years wiser, and who knows? Maybe 4 years from now I will have a totally different look at this song and its lyrics. But the smartest person out of all of us would be John Mayer, he talked about information control, the wealth divide, and the disconnection with leaders of countries and those who live in the country. Over the past 4 years I have been informed about and had my eyes opened to all of these things that he was talking about and maybe he was right or maybe the student was right. The best answer I think would to assume that they were both right, John Mayer was saying that we all need to change for the world too, and why bother until people open their eyes. The student was arguing that no one will open their eyes until we show we have changed. I mean what do you think?
Also... Fav line right here!

Now if we had the power 
To bring our neighbors home from war 
They would have never missed a Christmas 
No more ribbons on their door