Everything flows in an endless stream
And if we close our eyes
Like a vision or a dream
We'll see this world in its myriade ways:
Everything flows and every single minute
Brings a change to the earth and to everybody in it -
Watch a million lives playing out their days.
People at this very time
Are making many things-that's
That's so:
But fools are in command.
In the desert rockets point
Towards the stars: in sleazy bars
Someone's getting drunk and ugly:
On the city sidewalks hustlers
Pick their prey: far away.
Bodies bake on surfing beaches.
Tonight
Today
Feel it all going
On-all this moment's different strands of life:
Tonight
Today
We're a part of it all
Though we're on our own and making love.
Everything flows - Nixon's called a meeting:
There's a ma**ive demonstration
And some kids are getting beaten up
In time to make tomorrow's first editions:
Yeah
There's striptease shows
While at Buckingham Palace
They're working out the seating plans for Jackie and Ona**is
And in Kalamazoo there's two boys fishing.
People at this very time
Are making many things-that's
That's so:
Speeches and sailing-boats and scenes
While kids in faded jeans
Sit cross-legged in the park:
In a Roman night-club Carlo
Stuffs his mouth
Further south
Dino dines on left-out garbage:
In a jungle hospital
A mother sighs
Baby cries
New arrival in the life-stream.