You filled my days and nights
With life and love and colours bright
I heard the sun and snow and late night city rain in your voice
You gave your lovers wings
And Laurel Canyon hippie things
You took their hearts and lovers’ perfect rings were lost in your choice.
And then you find. It’s maybe time for a change.
Escape to empty north
Where time is a suspended fourth
I learned your poetry is more than patterns in the language
Then kick-ass rock and roll
You party to make up the toll
While lakes and mountains healed your soul you really need some damage
And then you find it’s maybe time for a change
Through days of jazz and Jaco
Hey she won’t come back alive
From this. You take the facts and slowly twist them into knowledge
The rise of corporations
Feeds the sickness of a nation.
Forget your education – they teach dog eat dog in college
And then you find it’s maybe time for a change
Change your colours. Change the tune.
Change the costume. Change the room. Change the room.
You sang my life beside me
This roller coaster ride we shared
With Scarlet and Amelia, Nathan, Otis and Marlena
Edith and Richard play their parts
Inside my head and Marcie starts me
Thinking how a pinball heart could suffer Little Green
And now we find it’s maybe time for a change
And now we find it’s maybe time for a change
