John Mayer - Waiting on the world to change

John Mayer is an American pop and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland", and a another one in 2007 for "Waiting on the world to Change".

Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there were many songs in the world that could relate to different characters and different events that happened. I think that “Waiting on the World to Change” by John Mayer is an excellent song to relate to To Kill a Mockingbird. Prejudice and Tolerance are some of the main themes in the book. This song also relates to both of those themes in many different ways. The lyrics that express it the most would be,

"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 on the world to change

We keep on waiting/Waiting on the world to change"

These lyrics could be the thoughts and words of Atticus Finch who was waiting for the world around him to realize that it was wrong to judge a person based on their race. He is the one who stood up for what he believes in and what he thinks is right.