"Change"

Sometimes songs just refuse to come out the way I want them to. I had high hopes for this one, but it was determined to disappoint me at every turn. There reaches a point, when things aren’t going well in the creative process, that you need to make a choice: Do I continue wrestling with this, or do I just kick it out the door and let it go wherever it wants? I chose the second approach with “Change.” I don’t know where it wandered off to, and I no longer care.

Change

© 1994 Brian Hutzell

Losing the one who makes you happy catches you unprepared

Leaving you moody, blue and crappy

Feeling alone and scared

Why couldn’t love be neater--manageable, refined?

Why can’t life be sweeter, cleaner, clearer

Nearer to what we had in mind?

It’s a change

And I could use a change

A change of direction, a change in the weather

But is it a change for the better, or is it just a change?

Looking toward a different future, shifting gears again

Though I try, it’s not wise to be too sure

Of who and what and when

So many roads to choose from--taking me here to there

I know I’m bound to lose some, and I want to be prepared

Still it’s a change

And I could use a change

A change of direction, a change in the weather

But is it a change for the better, or is it just a change?

Trying to reach the mainstream

But I’m still on a sidestreet

Frustrated by the detours and delays

Now I’m finally realizing that pointless agonizing

Is less productive than harmonizing

I’m mingling at the party, but no one’s bringing me my punch

So I’m packing up and parting

Making my own free lunch

It’s a change, and I can use a change

A change of direction, a change in the weather

May be a change for the better

But whatever, it’s a change