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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of “A song that reminds you of yourself”.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to this music challenge. You will hopefully discover new songs, revisit an old favorite and it is quite possibly learning something interesting.

Suggestions for Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Chicago-Dialogue Part I & II

One of my favorite songs by Chicago shows up on Chicago V. The group was formed in 1967 and to date have recorded 38 albums with the last released in July 2022.

It is titled Dialogue Part I & II. This 1972 tune is a two-part song and is in essence a debate written by Chicago founder Robert Lamm. The version I like has Terry Kath and Peter Cetera bantering about all the troubles of the world.

How I think this song mirrors my life relates to the number of questions that have come my way over my lifetime. Questions from society, the media, colleagues, friends, family, church, and complete strangers. In the song Kath asks Cetera over and over his views about societal issues ranging from war, poverty, changing the world, and children. In Part I it is clear that they hold different viewpoints.

The song is very sophisticated and when it transitions to Part II it is clear that the thru dialogue the two singers have reached some common ground. In fact Part II begins with Terry stating “Thank you for the talk”. From there Part II is basically sending a message of talking and listening is so much better than shouting what I should believe or think.

It ends with both singers belting out “We Can Make It Happen”. I just love the thought of “WE are being greater than ME”.

Lyrics

Terry: Are you optimistic ’bout the way that things are going?
Pete: No, I never ever think of it at all.
Terry: Don’t you ever worry when you see what’s going down?
Pete: Well, 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?
Pete: 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?
Pete: What is this power you speak of and the need for things to change?
I always thought that ev’rything was fine, ev’rything is fine.

Terry: Don’t you feel repression just closing in around?
Pete: No, the campus here is very very free.
Terry: Does it make you angry the way war is dragging on?
Pete: Well I hope the President knows what he’s into, I don’t know.
Oooh I just don’t know.

Terry: Don’t you see starvation in the city where you live,
All the needless hunger, all the needless pain?
Pete: 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.

Terry: Thank you for the talk, you know you really eased my mind,
I was troubled by the shapes of things to come.
Pete: Well, if you had my outlook, your feelings would be numb,
You’d always think that ev’rything was fine.
Ev’ry thing is fine.

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

Video

Next week the prompt is Embrace, Hug, Kiss