Intro (strummed, syncopated rock beat): 
 
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D  Dsus4  D   G  CaddG  G   A  Asus4  A   D  Dsus4  D 
 
    
   D                            Em 
Q. Are you optimistic bout the way that things are goin? 
         A                         D   F#m/C#  G/B  A   
A No, I never ever think of it at all. 
 
   G                             F#m 
Q. Don't you ever worry when you see what's goin down? 
           Em                                               A    Em   A 
A Well, I try to mind my business, that is no business at all. 
 
   D                               Em                              
Q. When it's time to function as a feeling human being,  
             A                             D   F#m/C#  G/B  A 
   Will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by? 
     G                         F#m 
A I hope to study further, a few more years or so.  
     Em                         A     Em   A 
   I also hope to keep a steady high. Ooh, yeah, yeah. 
 
   D                                       Em 
Q. Will you try to change things, use the power that you have, 
       A                       D   F#m/C#  G/B  A 
   The power of a million new ideas? 
        G                                  F#m 
A What is this power you speak of and the need for things to change?  
       Em                                 A     Em            A 
   I'd always thought that everything was fine. Everything is fine. 
 
   D                              Em                              
Q. Don't you feel repression just closin' in around? 
          A                         D   F#m/C#  G/B  A 
A No the campus here is very, very free. 
 
   G                             F#m 
Q. Don't it make you angry where war is draggin on? 
           Em                                               A      
A Well, I hope the president knows what he's into, I don't know. 
   Em                A 
   Ooh, I just don't know. 
 
   D                               Em                              
Q. Don't you see starvation in the city where you live?  
   A                        D       F#m/C#   G/B   A 
   All the needless hunger, all the needless pain? 
     G                              F#m 
A I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine!  
      Em                                                      A      
   My neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time, 
   Em              A 
   Haven't got the time. 
 
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                   D                                     Em                              
Q. Thank you for the talk, you know, you really eased my mind.  
         A                                  D   F#m/C#  G/B  A 
   I was troubled by the shape of things to come. 
         G                           F#m 
A Well, if you had my outlook, your feelings would be numb.  
         Em                                     A     Em             A 
   You'd always think that everything thing was fine, everything was fine.