Dialogue (Part One)

[Verse] Are you optimistic About the way things are going? No, I never ever think of it at all Don't you ever worry When you see what's going down? Well, I try to mind my business That is, no business at all When it's time to function As a feeling human being Will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by? I hope to study further A few more years or so I also hope to keep a steady high Will you try to change things Use the power that you have The power of a million new ideas? What is this power you speak of And this need for things to change? I always thought that everything was fine Don't you feel repression Just closing in around? No, the campus here is very, very free Does it make you angry The way war is dragging on? Well, I hope the President knows what he's into I don't know Don't you ever see the starvation In the city where you live All the needless hunger, all the needless pain? I haven't been there lately The country is so fine But my neighbors don't seem hungry Because they haven't got the time Thank you for the talk You know you really eased my mind I was troubled by the shapes of things to come Well, if you had my outlook Your feelings would be numb You'd always think that everything was fine Everything was fine