I love this Chicago song that talks about dialogue. It demonstrates that two people can see things very differently. It shows how we know what we know and how we just need to dialogue to learn from others. This song was written long ago when social issues were different and the war was Viet Nam, but it is still so relevant it could have been written yesterday. Great lyrics. I liked the song before I every really listened to the lyrics. Check out the song.
Lyrics Dialogue (Part I)
Terry: Are you optimistic 'bout the way things are going?
Peter: No, I never ever think of it at all
Terry: Don't you ever worry when you see what's going down?
Peter: Well, I try to mind my business, that is, no business at all
Terry: When it's time to function as a feeling human being, will your Bachelor of Arts
help you get by?
Peter: I hope to study further, a few more years or so. I also hope to keep a steady high
Terry: Will you try to change things, use the power that you have, the power of a million new ideas?
Peter: What is this power you speak of and this need for things to change? I always
thought that everything was fine, everything is fine
Terry: Don't you feel repression just closing in around?
Peter: No, the campus here is very, very free
Terry: Don't it make you angry the way war is dragging on?
Peter: Well, I hope the President knows what he's into, I don't know. Oh, I just don't know
Terry: Don't you ever see the starvation in the city where you live, all the needless
hunger all the needless pain?
Peter: 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
Terry: Thank you for the talk, you know you really eased my mind. I was troubled by
the shapes of things to come.
Peter: Well, if you had my outlook your feelings would be numb, you'd always think
that everything was fine
Dialogue (Part II)
Group- Together
We can make it better.We can make it better.We can make it better.Yeah, yeah, yeah
We can change the world now.We can change the world now.We can change the world now.
We can save the children.We can save the children.We can save the children.Yeah yeah yeah.
We can make it happen.We can make it happenWe can make it happen
We can save the children.We can save the children.We can save the children.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We can make it happen.We can make it happen.We can make it happen.
We can make it happen, yeah
We can make it happen
We can make it happen, yeah
We can make it happen
We can make it happen, yeah
We can make it happen
We can make it happen, yeah
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