Changes

And my time was running wild

A million dead-end streets

Every time I thought I'd got it made

It seems the taste was not so sweet

So I turned myself to face me

But I've never caught a glimpse

Of how the others must see the faker

I'm much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Ch-ch-changes

Don't have to be a richer man

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Ch-ch-changes

Don't want to be a better man

Time may change me

But I can't trace time

I watch the ripples change their size

But never leave the stream

Of warm impermanence

So the days flow through my eyes

But the days still seem the same

And these children that you spit on

As they try to change their worlds

Are immune to your consolations

They're quite aware of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Ch-ch-changes

Don't tell them to grow up and out of it

Ch-ch-changes

Where's your shame

You've left us up to our necks in it

Time may change them

But you can't trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me

Changes are taking the pace I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Ch-ch-changes

Look out you rock 'n' rollers

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Ch-ch-changes

Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older

Time may change me

But I can't trace time