The World Changes You

You can't change the world
If it hasn't changed you.
Feel pain; spin and whirl
Or you won't come through.

Don't watch the sun because it always falls,
And don't trust the moon to call.
I made it through
I know you will, too.

The bells toll and birds scatter
The murals fall and shatter.
What you do alone doesn't matter
So just stop that chatter.

Don't tell me of your kind of heart
That changes when its smart.
I've seen the lonely skies of Mars
And red clouds beyond the stars
That your soul just kills and mars.

Change the world lest it changes you,
And you forget you had a brain.
Change the world before its late to
Sing happy songs in rain.

And we're all running out of happiness
While the world is spinning 'round.
Your tongue should know the word "Yes"
And you should yell it sky-bound
From the top of the Merry-Go-Round.