(Robert Lamm)
Terry
Are you optimistic

'bout the way things are going?
Peter
No, I nver 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
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
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