Part i



Are you optimistic 'bout the way things are going?

No, i never ever think of it at all



Don't you ever worry

When you see what's going down?



No, i try to mind my business, that is, no business at all



When it's time to function as a feeling human being

Will your bachelor of arts help you get by?



I hope to study further, a few more years or so

I also hope to keep a steady high



Will you try to change things

Use the power that you have, the power of a million new ideas?



What is this power you speak of and this need for things to change?

I always thought that everything was fine



Don't you feel repression just closing in around?

No, the campus here is very, very free



Don't it make you angry the way war is dragging on?

Well, i hope the president knows what he's into, i don't know



Don't you ever see the starvation in the city where you live

All the needless hunger all the needless pain?



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



Thank you for the talk, you know you really eased my mind

I was troubled by the shapes of things to come



Well, if you had my outlook your feelings would be numb

You'd always think that everything was fine



Part ii



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