Changes

(album: Sigh No More - 1991)

I need a new direction
Another thought to serve me right
My mind has got an infection
And there's nothing that seems to help
I need to grow an island somewhere inside my head
Where nothing can disturb me
Where I am free, where I'm forever set

Maybe it's not important
If we are dead or alive
I never ever wanna listen to the sirens
I'm alive, still alive

Who says: "We are not guilty"
I say: "We never know the way it goes"

Changes all around me, all inside my head
Changes changing face, still remaining mad
Changes an all day routine

Hard to enjoy the good times
Decay is what I feel
God, it's making me porous, vanish in haze
I wonder, wonder if I'm real

Newflash under the new regulations
Non-conformity will be punished by law
Relax and don't forget to unplug your TV set
Sigh no more

For you, you are not guilty
No, no, you're not responsible at all

Changes all around me, all inside my head
Changes changing face, still remaining mad
Changes an all day routine
Changes all around me, all inside my head
Changes changing face, still remaining mad
Changes changing systems, still insane
Changes but the madness will remain

Who is the man who says I'm never gonna die?
It's a lie, it's a lie
And who is the man who says, I never have to sigh?
It's a lie, it's a lie

Oppression, resistance
We will never change our way
The island in my mind is growing
More and more, day after day

Changes all around me now, all inside me now
Changes wanna cry no more, sigh no more