The Changes Lyrics

The Changes lyrics

The scene is set, everybody's in place

 Two chairs filled for every five gone to waste

 Pantsuit girl gives me a nasty gaze

 She says play that on your own time

 Walk to the bandstand blow my horn

 Nobody knows what we're really here for

 Let's take it out hard till they show us the door

 It's us against them tonight

 

 Play the changes

 Make the changes

 Hear the changes

 Take it out hard till they show us the door

 

 A girl with a nose ring said to me

 She said where's the joy in your delivery

 I said maybe there's not supposed to be

 Any real joy at all here

 She sat there with that plaster smile

 As we sit jiving but in a little while

 Holding her hair she joined the single file

 And walked on down the hall

 

 

 Play the changes

 Make the changes

 Hear the changes

 Us against them tonight

 

 The owner says he thinks we need some work

 Got a place for you, got some roadwork

 Laying asphalt on the interstate

 Nobody cares and why should they

 A white girl in a dashiki says you're all the rage

 My friends and I think you're quite the sage

 Wear a kofu and a finger guage

 To see which way the wind blows today

 

 

 Play the changes

 Make the changes

 Hear the changes

 To see which way the wind blows today

 

 Old friend Dave with the silver spoon

 Says why don't you play those good old tunes

 Give it up now you could fill the room

 I say there's nothing like a good Trane tune

 Changes

 These things called changes

 Where do we go from here?