Yearn for Change
(John Mellencamp/George M. Green)
On a Greyhound thirty miles beyond Jamestown
He saw the sun set on the Tennesseee line
He looked at the young man who was riding beside him
He said I'm old, kind of worn out inside
I worked my whole life in the steel mills of Gary
And my father before me I helped build this land
Now I'm seventy-seven and with God as my witness
I earned every dollar that passed through my hands
My family and freinds are the best things I've known
Through the eye of the needle I'll carry them home
CHORUS
Days turn to minutes
And minutes to
On a Greyhound thirty miles beyond Jamestown
He saw the sun set on the Tennesseee line
He looked at the young man who was riding beside him
He said I'm old, kind of worn out inside
I worked my whole life in the steel mills of Gary
And my father before me I helped build this land
Now I'm seventy-seven and with God as my witness
I earned every dollar that passed through my hands
My family and freinds are the best things I've known
Through the eye of the needle I'll carry them home
CHORUS
Days turn to minutes
And minutes to
Malicious Delight
you're not born as a prisoner
it's not a job
it's a condition of people
who have a destiny
who made their lives harder
by thinking of the misery in this
society
this people with their hopes
their fights and their depressions
got there where the dominating
society wanted them to be
in the last place - jail
deprived of their freedom
their basis and their friends
delivererd up to institutions