Why hello there My old friend Do you remember Way back when It was a different world? When you said Good-bye to me Did you know how long It would be Before you saw me again? Now that all These things have changed Yet you still seem To be the same Well my friend, how have you been? I’ve been good But things are tough Yet still it hasn’t Been too rough Out here, traversing the world How I’d like to Hear from you Can you call me In a day or two To catch up, on our old times? Once we were Very close friends But then one day That seemed to end Why that is, I do not know. Sometimes friendships Fall apart Yet still I feel Within my heart We could be friends again What else are Old friends for? If you won’t Speak to me anymore Then you're just a mem’ry in my head!

There once was a man Or rather, four men They were in a band One day and then They sang out their songs Through the barren land To us they belonged In music halls so grand But nobody noticed them at all in the day It just seems that they had to fade away When we went to the dives They sang out the blues Why isn’t it a crime That they didn’t break through? I remember the place Where we first met Now that place is no more To this I regret And nobody noticed them at all in the day It just seems that they had to fade away Go find the hipsters Wherever they be Don’t make me sigh Whenever I see A band of posers Pretending to play And no-good composers Scaring music away And nobody noticed them at all in the day It just seems they had to fade away I'm down to Ithaca town Don't know where they'll go I'm unsure what I've found Perhaps I'll never know I wish I could see them At a over sold show But Blind Ferguson That band had to go Cause nobody noticed them at all in the day It just seems they had to fade away And nobody noticed them at all in the day It just seems they had to fade away

You gotta hear me sing my song Before they shoot me down You gotta hear me sing my song Before they shoot me down Down to the ground Down to the ground Down to the ground Down, they’re gonna shoot me down Dead They’ve got armor-piercing bullets To shoot right through my chest They’ve got armor-piercing bullets To shoot right through my chest They’re gonna shoot me Down to the ground Down to the ground Down to the ground Down, they’re gonna shoot me down Dead They’ve got extended-capacity magazines To shoot lots of times at me They’ve got extended-capacity magazines To shoot lots of times at me They’re gonna shoot me Down to the ground Down to the ground Down to the ground Down, they’re gonna shoot me down Dead They’ve got concealed weapons That I can’t even see They’ve got concealed weapons That I can’t even see They’re gonna shoot me Down to the ground Down to the ground Down to the ground Down, they’re gonna shoot me down Dead I’ve got my hands up don’t shoot me Please don’t shoot me down I’ve got my hands up, don’t shoot me Please don’t shoot me down Down to the ground Down to the ground Down to the ground Down to the ground Down to the ground Down, they’re gonna shoot me down Dead

Does it matter if you’re a girl or a boy? Does it matter if you’re social or coy? Does it matter if you’re black or white? Does it matter if you’re left or right? We share this world together! Lets work to make it better! Does it matter if you’re this or that? Does it matter if you’re thin or you’re fat? Does it matter that you’re gay or straight? Does it matter if you’re early or late? We share this world together! Lets work to make it better! Does it matter if you’re east or west? Does it matter if you’re the worst or the best? Does it matter if you’re Christian or Jew? Does it matter if you’re Muslim or Hindu? We share this world together! Lets work to make it better! Does it matter if you’re happy or sad? Does it matter if you’re good or bad? Does it matter if you’re rich or poor? Does it really matter at all anymore? We share this world together! Lets work to make it better! Does it matter if you’re young or old? Does it matter if you’re hot or cold? Does it matter if you’re stupid or smart? Doesn’t everybody have a heart? We share this world together! Lets work to make it better! We share this world together! Lets work to make it better!