Chicago — 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