G
Are you optimistic
'Bout the ways that things are going?
No, I never ever think of it at all
C
Don't you ever worry
When you see what's going down?
Well, I try to mind my business
That is, no business at all
G
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
Ooh, yeah yeah yeah
G
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 the need for things to change?
I always thought that everything was fine
Everything is fine
Don't you feel repression just closing in around?
No, the campus here is very very free
C
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
Ooh, I just don't know, yeah
Don't you see starvation in the city where you live
DonG
All the needless hunger
All the needless pain?
Ooh, 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
Haven't got the time
G
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
Everything was fine
