I'd like to share with you the lyrics from Part I of the song Dialogue by the band Chicago. This song was originally written in 1972, but the lyrics are still as fresh and relevant as ever:
"Are you optimistic, about the way that things are goin'?"
"No, I never, ever think of it at all."
"Don't you ever worry when you see what's goin' down?"
"Well, I'm tryin' to mind my business; that is no business at all."
"When it's time to function, as a feelin' 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 - woo, yeah, yeah."
"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 the need for things to change? I always thought that everything was fine - everything is fine."
"Don't you feel repression, just closing in around?"
"No, the campus here is very, very free."
"Don't it make you angry where war is draggin' on?"
"Well, I hope the President knows what he's into - I don't know. Whoo, I just don't know."
"Don't you see 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. My neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time - haven't got the time."
"Thank you for your 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."
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