[Verse: Terry Kath & Peter Cetera]
Are you optimistic
About the way that things are going?
No, I never 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 business at all
When it's time to function
As a feeling human being
Will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by?
I hope to study further
A few more years or so
I also hope to keep a steady high
Oh oooh
Will you try to change things
Use the power that you have
The power of a million new ideas?
What is this power you speak of
And the need for things to change?
I always thought that everything was fine
Everything is fine
Don't you feel repression
Just closing in around?
No, the campus here is very, very free
Don't it make you angry
The way war is dragging on?
Well, I hope the President knows what he's into, I don't know
Ooh, I just don't know
Don't you see starvation
In the city where you live
All the needless hunger, all the needless pain?
Ooh, 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
Thank you for the talk
You know, you really eased my mind
I was troubled by the shapes of things to come
Well, if you had my outlook
Your feelings would be numb
You'd always think that everything was fine
Everything was fine
