And what am I to do?
Just tell me what am I supposed to say?
I can’t change the world
But I can change the world in me
Rejoice
Rejoice
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide, the chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
‘Cause the times, they are a-changin’
Change your heart
Look around you
Change your heart
It will astound you
I need your lovin’
Like the sunshine
Everybody’s gotta learn sometime
Everybody’s gotta learn sometime
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes, don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes, just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
Inside himself,
He follows the wrong directions
Perfect English phrase all right
But with the wrong inflection
But look at the dust at his feet
He’s not the one she loves
It was a different man, no he’s never been found
You can be so up, you can be so down
It was a different man, no he’s never been there
You can be halfway, you can be all there
'Cause he gets up in the morning
And he goes to work at nine
And he comes back home at five-thirty
Gets the same train every time
'Cause his world is built 'round punctuality
It never fails
And he’s oh, so good
And he’s oh, so fine
And he’s oh, so healthy
In his body and his mind
He’s a well respected man about town
Doing the best things so conservatively
You get up every morning from alarm clock’s warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There’s a whistle up above and people pushing, people shoving
And the girls who try to look pretty
And if your train’s on time, you can get to work by nine
And start your slavin’ jobs and get your pay
If you ever get annoyed, look at me, I’m self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day
Workin’ for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to Sophistication
She’s seen the ads, she thinks it’s nice
Better work hard, I seen the price
Onetta there in the corner stand
And she wonders where she is
And it’s strange to her
Some people seem to have everything
Nine a.m. on the hour hand
And she’s waiting for the bell
And she’s looking real pretty
Just wait for her clientele
She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right
2 AM and she calls me 'cause I’m still awake
“Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
I don’t love him, Winter just wasn’t my season”
Yeah, we walk through the doors, so accusing, their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize
Hypocrites, you’re all here for the very same reason
'Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable
And life’s like an hourglass glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe
Oh, breathe, just breathe
It’s two a.m., the fear has gone
I’m sitting here waitin’, the gun’s still warm
Maybe my connection is tired of takin’ chances
Yeah, there’s a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
Cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy
Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
Harder to like yourself, harder to try
These are espouses, postcards and Neoprene
Roses, a dollar a stem
Everyone sleeping or pulling a long haul
The keys in the cooler it’s three a.m.
And Saturn is beckoning no one
Is off on it’s own
It’s offering up
Sitting in the stand of the sports arena
Waiting for the show to begin
Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine
A good friend of mine, follows the stars
Venus and Mars
Are alright tonight
Her weapons were her crystal eyes
Making every man mad
Black as the dark night she was
Got what no-one else had
Wow!
She’s got it
Yeah, baby, she’s got it
Well, I’m your Venus
I’m your fire, at your desire
Primitive mirror on the wall
To fortify your grim resolve
Amid the glitz of a shopping mall
Another grain of indigent salt for the sea
Good night to these wretched forms
All them gray eyes on the subway
So long before you were born
You were always to be a dagger floating
Straight to their heart
Growing up, it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone
Subdivisions
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Our house is a very, very, very fine house…
With 2 cats in the yard.
Life used to be so hard,
Now its easier because of you…
Ah, watch out
You might get what you’re after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I’m an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
I wouldn’t if I were you
I know what she can do
She’s deadly, man; she could really rip your world apart
Mind over matter
A beauty is there, but a beast is in her heart
Oh, here she comes
Watch out boy, she’ll chew you up
Oh, here she comes
She’s a maneater
Something I’ve never seen
I’m feeling in between
Reach up and touch your face
I’ll run 'till I’m very far away
Beautiful monster
Beautiful monster
A side I never knew
And now I’m all confused
Troubled in the strangest way
Something I never could explain
Beautiful monster
Beautiful monster