Are you optimistic
Dm7onC
'Bout the ways that things are going?
No, I never ever think of it at all
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
When it's time to function
Dm7onC
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
Will you try to change things
Dm7onC
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
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
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
Thank you for the talk
Dm7onC
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
