From Pen, To Computer, To Head?

I'm an author, but lately, my conscience has gotten out of control.

I could be watching anything, and my imagination will takeover. In the past, I'd write the ideas down. But part of writing is that fantasy, but after backfiring, knowing none of my goals/fantasies came to fruition. So, I guess I can't control it, so might as well not bother to write about it.

For "Dialogue", I would talk it out. I remember one instance where it felt fake, but it wasn't my writing, it was my "acting".



Chicago - Dialogue

Robert Lamm wrote it, but in this conversation, you have Terry Kath and Peter Cetera singing it. Great stuff. With each voice representing a different perspective. Remember, this was back when the US had an anti-war movement.

Are you optimistic
'Bout the way things are going?
No, I never ever think of it at all
Don't you ever worry
When you see what's going down?
Well, I try to mind my business,
That is, no business at all
When it's time to function
As a feeling human being, will your
Bachelor of Arts help you get by?
I hope to study further,
A few more years or so. I also hope
To keep a steady high
Will you try to change
Things, use the power that you have,
The power of a million new ideas?
What is this power you
Speak of and this need for things to
Change? I always thought
That everything was fine, everything
Is fine
Don't you feel repression just
Closing in around?
No, the campus here is very, very free
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.
Oh, I just don't know
Terry
Don't you ever see the starvation
In the city where you live, all the
Needless hunger all the
Needless pain?

I haven't been there lately,
The country is so fine, but my
Neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause
They haven't got the time, haven't got
The time

Thank you for the talk,
You know you really eased my mind.
I was troubled by the shapes
Of things to come.

Well, if you had my Outlook
your feelings would be Numb,
you'd always think
That everything was fine,
Everything was fine.


We can make it better
We can make it better
We can make it better
Yeah, yeah, yeah
We can change the world now