Dialogue (Part I)

[Terry Kath]

Are you optimistic 'bout the way things are going?

[Peter Cetera]

No, I never ever think of it at all

[Terry Kath]

Don't you ever worry

When you see what's going down?

[Peter Cetera]

Well, I try to mind my business, and there's no business at all

[Terry Kath]

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

Will your bachelor of arts help you get by?

[Peter Cetera]

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

I also hope to keep a steady high

Ooh yeah yeah yeah

[Terry Kath]

Will you try to change things?

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

[Peter Cetera]

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

I always thought that everything was fine

Everything is fine

[Terry Kath]

Don't you feel repression as the closing in around?

[Peter Cetera]

No, the campus here is very, very free

[Terry Kath]

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

[Peter Cetera]

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

Ooh, I just don't know, yeah

[Terry Kath]

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

All the needless hunger, all the needless pain?

[Peter Cetera]

Ooh, I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine

My neighbor don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time

Haven't got the time

[Terry Kath]

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

I was troubled by the shapes of things to come

[Peter Cetera]

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

You'd always think that everything was fine

Everything was fine