Common Lives in Troubled Times-The Changing Times

[ti:Common Lives in Troubled Times] [ar:The Changing Times] [al:Common Lives in Troubled Times] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Common Lives in Troubled Times - The Changing Times [00:12.26]Common lives in troubled times [00:17.70]The change passing by is something [00:20.52]We can't rely on [00:22.50]When were standing on the left [00:25.90]And pacing right to bet [00:28.95]The change passing by is something [00:31.78]We can't rely on [00:34.60]Down by the river [00:36.68]We were down by the river [00:39.49]We're burning [00:40.90] [00:42.84]Burning all the papers in the night [00:46.55] [00:48.12]Smoke is softly turning into life [00:51.92]By the river [00:53.27]We were down that river [00:56.04]We're burning [00:57.37] [00:59.36]Burning all the papers in the night [01:03.07] [01:04.69]Smoke is softly turning into [01:07.95]Common lives in troubled times [01:13.35]The change passing by is something [01:16.29]We can't rely on [01:18.41]When were standing on the left [01:21.68]And pacing right to bet [01:24.83]The change passing by is something [01:27.63]We can't rely on [01:30.56]Every common life in these troubled times [01:32.58]Has a mind capable of changing lives [01:34.62]For the ruling class would hold us back [01:37.13]With a common purpose [01:38.33]To take our freedom [01:39.48]And leave us blind with rights once had [01:41.33]You gotta use your mind [01:43.22]And what you got inside [01:44.41]To take back the power for the people [01:46.78]Now look inside your mind [01:48.16]And see if you're inside [01:49.41]You should have learned from the past [01:50.87]But you ignore it cause you weren't alive [01:52.43]When families decline [01:54.06]From debt that isn't mine [01:55.00]Suffering their pride to hear [01:57.21]Next in line [01:58.14]They show where to sign [01:59.61]And if you wouldn't mind [02:00.69]Fill up this little cup so we see [02:02.45]What you do with your spare time [02:03.89]Generation theft everyone's in debt [02:05.99]Trying to make their way through the days [02:07.66]Living off change and saving for the rain [02:10.32]Can't see an end in sight [02:11.45]Can hardly see the light [02:12.84]Trying to make my way through life [02:14.24]And do it right [02:15.29]With the short time we're here [02:16.99]We can never fear [02:18.27]And we can never rest [02:19.66] [02:20.59]Writing common rhymes in these troubled lines [02:22.60]Giving some advice of minds [02:23.92]With a justified display of signs [02:25.99]Hearing compromise [02:27.40]Reading between the lines [02:28.14]Of ways to despise and realize [02:30.29]How we're all stuck inside [02:31.45]Sitting doing time reasonably blind [02:33.86]Feeling kind of high [02:35.54]To what has come inside [02:37.10]Memories lie with an unconscious mind [02:39.73]Dreams ambitions we must survive [02:42.07]Sometimes take a step back [02:43.69]And look at the past [02:44.82]And the good old days [02:46.19]They've been a blast [02:47.64]They'll always last [02:49.23]Time is passing by so fast [02:51.38]We need to enjoy it while it lasts [02:53.53]In these times of global unrest [02:54.88]Ways we live to get the best [02:56.22]Are looked upon and reassessed [02:57.36]Without request they reinvest [02:59.22]But with no intelligence test [03:00.90]We got stuck with second best [03:02.35]Wishing out there for a life vest [03:04.26]So we can stay in our bird's nest [03:06.15]And get our blood tests [03:07.15]The progressed and their dishonest quest [03:08.90]Will render us oppressed