Chicago
Dialogue (Parts I and II)
Written by - Robert Lamm
From - Chicago V
Part I

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

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

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