Keep the tracks before the train
Never turn your back on rain
Everything will stay the same
Until you change
Under stacks of fallen fame
Known by six or seven names
When the proud attack the tame
And shame the vain
People change (X3)

Take me to the wooden shed
With a pitchfork stone and bed
There’s a whole lot being said
That’s not done
When you’re dead and underground Emi
Or on your head and makin’ sound
It’s just instead of going round
That you come
People change
People chang-un’

Fiddle play and guitar strum
Look what we have overcome
Oh I can’t believe what we have
Overcame
Lookin’ out across the town
Rooftops red and black and brown
There’s some people that I’ve found
That are strange
People change

(Vocal/instrumental breakdown over verses
and heart attack)

Under Chekhov’s Cherry Trees
Balzac’s birds and Bessie’s bees
There’s some people that are free
When they’re bound
Under swinging pendulums
By the drum before the drum
We are so often overcome
Before we’re found
People change
People change around

But the mission of the man
Is to plan before you stand
I think I understand
I understand
Building towers in the sky
Is just one way to get high
There are others if you try
To name them
People change
People change
When you change them

Crossing bridges in the rain
Gets you just as wet the same
As the river running tame
Beneath you
Keep the tracks before the train
Never turn your back on rain
People change, people change
We need you

(First two stanzas)
People change