Changes Lyrics - The First Ten Years - Shawn Mullins

Still don't know what I was waiting for 

And my time was running wild, a million dead-end streets 

Every time I thought I'd got it made 

It seemed the taste was not so sweet 

So I turned myself to face me 

But I, I've never caught a glimpse 

Of how the others must see the faker 

I'm much too fast to take that test 

Ch-ch-changes, ch-ch-changes 

(Turn and face the strange) 

Don't have to be a richer man 

Ch-ch-changes, ch-ch-changes 

(Turn and face the strange) 

Don't want to be a better man 

Time may change me 

I can't trace time 

I watch the ripples change their size 

But never leave the stream of warm impermanence 

And so the days float through my eyes 

But still the days seem the same 

And these children that you spit on 

As they try to change their worlds 

Are immune to your consultations 

They're quite aware of what they're going through 

Ch-ch-changes, ch-ch-changes 

(Turn and face the strange) 

Don't tell them to grow up and out of it 

Ch-ch-changes, ch-ch-changes 

(Turn and face the strange) 

Where's your shame, you've left us up to our necks in it 

Time may change me 

But you can't trace time 

Strange fascination, fascinating me 

Changes are taking the pace, I'm going through 

Ch-ch-changes, ch-ch-changes 

(Turn and face the strange) 

Look out you rock 'n rollers 

Ch-ch-changes, ch-ch-changes 

(Turn and face the strange) 

Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older 

Time may change me 

But I can't trace time 

I said that time may change me 

But I can't trace time