You're looking and listening and hoping

that things are changing for the better

You're trying to see if what you're teaching is the truth sir

You're looking and listening and hoping

that things will change for better

Don't want to preach or teach the blues to you now brother



I just left Victoria Gardens

And walked through cardboard city land

A burnt out star was asking

How would I like to shake his hand



I walked on in no hurry (hurry hurry hurry)

And wondered where did we go wrong?



We're looking and listening and hoping

that things are changing for the better

Don't want to preach or teach the blues to you now brother



I walked on in no hurry (hurry hurry hurry)

And wondered where did we go wrong?



Looking listening hoping that things are changing for the better

(Only time can tell)



It's a bloody fine situation

That we find ourselves in

He said something I couldn't mention (here)

And we laughed with him again



I walked on in no hurry (hurry hurry hurry)

And wondered where did we go wrong?



Looking listening hoping that things are changing for the better

And trying to see if what you're teaching is the truth sir



She said it's for the good of us all

(of us all, of us all, of us all)



Looking listening hoping that things are changing for the better

Don't want to preach or teach the blues to you now brother



I'm not so sure

(sure, sure, sure)



And now it is early evening

I look across grey Leicester Square

A large and silent crowd were walking

Said they had every right to be there