I still don't know what I was waiting for

And my time was running wild          

A million dead-end streets  

Every time I thought I'd got it made  

It seemed the taste was not so sweet       

So I turned myself to face me               

But I've never caught a glimpse  

Of how the others must see the faker      

I'm much too fast to take that test 

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes   

Turn and face the stranger   

Ch-ch-Changes   

Don't want to be a richer man       

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes   

Turn and face the stranger   

Ch-ch-Changes   

Just gonna have to be a different man

Time may change me       

But I can't trace time        

I watch the ripples change their size        

But never leave the stream

Of warm impermanence and

So the days float through my eyes           

But still the days seem the same     

And these children that you spit on

As they try to change their worlds   

Are immune to your consultations 

They're quite aware of what they're goingthrough     

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes   

Turn and face the stranger   

Ch-ch-Changes   

Don't tell them to grow up and out of it      

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes   

Turn and face the stranger   

Ch-ch-Changes   

Where's your shame  

You've left us up to our necks in it

Time may change me       

But you can't trace time      

Strange fascination, fascinating me

Changes are taking the pace               

I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes   

Turn and face the stranger   

Ch-ch-Changes   

Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers         

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes   

Turn and face the stranger   

Ch-ch-Changes   

Pretty soon you're gonna get a littleolder   

Time may change me       

But I can't trace time        

I said that time may change me        

But I can't trace time