Dialogue Part 1

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
No, 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

Terry
Don't you feel repression just
closing in around?

Peter
No, the campus here is very, very free

Terry
Does 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
ooh, 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,
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
everything is fine