Dialogue

Chicago

(Robert Lamm)



Part I



Terry

Are you optimistic

'bout the way things are going?



Peter

No, I nver 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



Part II



Group

We can make it happen

We can change the world now

We can save the children

We can make it better

We can make it happen

We can save the children

We can make it happen