As expected, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” was nominated for best documentary, but so also did Melissa Etheridge’s song from that film, “I Need to Wake Up,” get a nod:

Have I been sleeping?
I?ve been so still
Afraid of crumbling
Have I been careless?
Dismissing all the distant rumblings
Take me where I am supposed to be
To comprehend the things that I can?t see

Cause I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something?s got to break up
I?ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

And as a child
I danced like it was 1999
My dreams were wild
The promise of this new world
Would be mine
Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth
To listen to an inconvenient truth

That I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something?s got to break up
I?ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

I am not an island
I am not alone
I am my intentions
Trapped here in this flesh and bone

And I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something?s got to break up
I?ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now

I want to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Oh, Something?s got to break up
I?ve been asleep
And I need to wake up
Now


Yep, so earnest, trite and cliched that it’s got to be Oscar material.