If I closed my eyes for a month and a day

        If I closed my eyes for a month and a day
        And opened them
        What would I see, and could I say
        That things have changed?

Would attitudes be different, would people love
A little bit more?
Or would I discover soon enough
That things are still the same.

        Would the world be a better place
        For one and all?
        Or would the same sad faces
        Fill the TV's frame.

Would I be a kinder man
With no doubts,
Or would I still not understand
The rules of the game?


Birmingham, February 1987