You sit there and listen, I sit here and play But I wonder sometimes If the words and the lines Just get lost on the way. Reader to writer and poet to pen, Still I go on in the hope That a song's getting through Now and again. A song changes nothing, at least it can try To give us a reason to look at our lives. It changes nothing, at best it can try To hold up the mirror of our lives. We scatter our feelings like seeds that we sow, But only God understands the heart of the man In the twenty-fifth row. You sit there and listen, I sit here and play, But without love you've got nothing to hear And I've got nothing to say. A song changes nothing, at least it can try To give us a reason to look at our lives. It changes nothing, at best it can try To hold up the mirror of our lives