Are you optimistic
C＃m7onB
'Bout the ways that things are going?
No, I neve r 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 b usiness at a ll
When it's time to function
C＃m7onB
As a feeling human being
Will your Bach elor of Arts help you get by?
I hope to study further
A few more years or so
I als o hope to keep a steady high
Ooh , yeah yeah yeah
Will you try to change things
C＃m7onB
Use the power that you have
The powe r of a million new ideas?
What is this power you speak of
And the need for things to change?
I alw ays thought that everything was fine
Ever ything is fine
Don't you feel repression just closing in around?
No, the camp us here is very very free
Don't it make you angry
The way war is dragging on?
Well, I hop e 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 needle ss pa in?
Ooh, I haven't been there lately
The country is so fine
But my neighbors don't seem hungry
'Cause they have n't got the time
Have n't got the time
Thank you for the talk
C＃m7onB
You know you really eased my mind
I was trou bled by the shapes of things to come
Well, if you had my outlook
Your feelings would be numb
You'd alw ays think that everything was fine
Ev erything was fine
