Chicago - Dialogue Parts 1 and 2

Part I

Terry
Are you optimistic 'bout the way things are going?

Peter
No, I never 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
Don't 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 see 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. 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.

Part II

Group
We can make it happen
We can change the world now
We can save the children
We can make it better
We can make it happen
We can save the children
We can make it happen