A Song For Richard And His Friends

Album: Chicago At Carnegie Hall (1972)
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  • If you will think now, then you will see
    How you can change things
    People are waiting, turning away
    Tired of killing

    Hey now
    Will you go away
    We're so tired
    Of things that you say

    Even though you never said word that would help anyone but yourself
    Tomorrow is such a bad dream
    Oh, bad dream
    If you stay now

    It will only get worse
    Let us pray now
    'Cause the truth really hurts
    Have to be a man so today with your brothers and sisters lay dying

    Tomorrow is such a bad dream
    Yeah, such a bad dream
    Listen
    Please be gone

    Go away and leave us alone
    Bring police
    Go away and leave us in peace
    Yeah

    Please be gone
    Go away and leave us alone
    Bring police
    Go away and leave us in peace

    Will you go now
    Will you take all your friends
    Woah now, If you'd stood like a man
    Even though I know that you cannot be blamed all alone for all the sadness you've caused

    Tomorrow is such a bad dream
    Yeah, such a bad dream
    Oh yeah, such a bad dream
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    If you will think now you will then you will see
    How we can change things
    People are waiting, turning away
    Tired of killing Writer/s: ROBERT WILLIAM LAMM
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 3

  • Oldpink from Farmland, InWhat's with Jackson Browne's song being linked instead of the one listed?
  • Brett from Auckland, New ZealandRobert Lamm's spoken introduction on the "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" album mentions that this is 'sort of a wishful thought about wishing President Nixon would quit!" The crowd roars with approval...
  • Dave from Pomeroy, OhWas this about Nixon or then Chicago mayor Richard Dailey
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