Chicago » Dialogue (Part I) Lyrics

Terry:
Are you optimistic
'bout the way things are going?

Peter:
No, I never ever think of it at all

Terry:
Don't you ever worry
When you see what's going down?

Peter:
No, I try to mind my business
that is, no business at all

Terry:
When it's time to function
as a feeling human being, will your
Bachelor of Arts help you get by?

Peter:
I hope to study further
a few more years or so. I also hope
to keep a steady high

Terry:
Will you try to change
things, use the power that you have
the power of a million new ideas?

Peter:
What is this power you
speak of and this need for things to
change? I always thought
that everything was fine

Terry:
Don't you feel repression just
closing in around?

Peter:
No, the campus here is very, very free

Terry:
Does it make you angry
the way war is dragging on?

Peter:
Well, I hope the President
knows what he's into, I don't know

Terry:
Don't you ever see the starvation
in the city where you live, all the
needless hunger all the
needless pain?

Peter:
I haven't been there lately,
the country is so fine, but my
neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause
they haven't got the time

Terry:
Thank you for the talk
you know you really eased my mind
I was troubled by the shapes
of things to come

Peter:
Well, if you had my
outlook your feelings would be
numb, you'd always think
that everything was fine