The Changes Lyrics - Bruce Hornsby

The scene is set and everybody's in place 

Two chairs filled for every five gone to waste 

The pantsuit girl gives me a nasty gaze 

Says, "Play that on your own time" 

I 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 

Hey, 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" 

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 

There's 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" 

I wear a kofu and a finger gage 

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 train tune" 

Changes 

These things called changes 

Where do we go, go from here?