#Talking January 29
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For January 2025, several of us are taking part in the 30-Day Song Lyrics Coach4aday Challenge. Each day we utilize a theme and post the song lyrics from a song that connects the two. Today my theme is on talking and my song is DIALOGUE PARTS 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.
What makes this tune poignant is the life lesson it conveys. Throughout the song, Kath repeatedly asks Cetera about his views on societal issues, including war, poverty, changing the world, and children. In Part I, it becomes clear that their perspectives differ.
The sophistication of the songwriting shines through as Dialogue transitions to Part II. The lyrics make it clear that, through their conversation, the two singers have found some common ground. Part II begins with Terry Kath expressing appreciation, saying, “Thank you for the talk.” From there, the song delivers a powerful message about the value of meaningful dialogue—emphasizing the importance of talking and listening rather than shouting about what each person should believe or think.
Song Lyrics 30-Day Challenge Guidelines
Like previous challenges there are no hard and fast rules to participate. There are a few suggested guidelines
- Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, and explain, if necessary, why it connects to your daily theme.
- Please try to include the songwriters
- Link to a video so people can listen to the song
January 29th-Theme-Talking-Song-Dialogue Part I and II
Questions from society, the media, colleagues, friends, family, church, and complete strangers don’t have to be polarizing. We can make it happen.
Lyrics
Terry Kath: Are you optimistic ’bout the way that things are going?
Pete Cetera : 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
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