Chicago Transit Authority

When i'm with you, it doesn't matter where we are, or what we're doing
I'm with you, that's all that matters
Time passes much too quickly when we're together laughing
I wish i could sing it to you, oh no
I wish i could sing it to you

Mostly i'm silent
Never think of the right words to say

When i kiss you, i feel a thousand different feelings
The color of chills all over my body
And when i feel them, i quickly try to decide which one
I should try to put into words, oh no
Try to put into words

Mostly i'm silent

Only the beginning of what i want to feel forever
Only the beginning
Only just the start
I've got to get you into my life mama
Got to get you next to me
Only the beginning
Only just the start

Would you look around you now
And tell me what you see
Faces full of hate and fear
Faces full of me
Do you feel the rumblings
As your head comes crumbling down
Do you know what i mean

Run, you better, run you know
The end is getting near
Feel the wind of something hard
Come whistling past your ear
As they try to get you
Where it will upset you down
Now you know what i mean

Someday you will see how long
We've waited for the time
To show you how we've died
To get together with you all

Twist and turn your head around
'till everything's unclear
Twist and turn your arm around
Until it is not there
And they'd love to burn you
Or at least to turn you around
Now you know what i mean

Can you look around you now
And tell us what's to be
Can you look inside yourself
And tell us what you see
As you feel the rumblings
As your head comes crumbling down
And you know what i mean

Someday you will see how long
We've been waiting for the time
To show you how we've died
To get together with you all

Instrumental

Well my pad is very messy, got whiskers on my chin
Never had no problems 'cause i've always paid the rent
I got no time for lovin'
Cause my time is all used up
I stand outside creatin'
All the groovy kinds of love

I'm a man, yes i am and i can't help but love you so
I'm a man, yes i am and i can't help but love you so

If i had my choice of matter
I'd would rather be with cats
All engrossed in mental chatter
Showing where your mind is at
While relating to each other
How strong the love can be
By resisting all the good times with each groovy chick we see

I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so
I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so

I've got to keep my image
While i'm standing on the floor
If i drop upon my knees
It's just to keep them on my nose
You think that i'm not human
And my heart is made of stone
But i've never had no problems
'cause my body's pretty strong

I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so
I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so
I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so

If i had my choice of matter
I would rather be with cats
All engrossed in mental chatter
Showin' where your mind is at
While relating to each other
How strong your love can be
By resisting all the good times with each groovy chick we see

I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so
I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so
I'm a man yes i am and i can't help but love you so

I gotta keep my image
While i'm standin on the floor
If i drop upon my knees
It's just to keep them on my nose
You think that i'm not human
And my heart is made of stone
But i never had no problems
'cause my body's pretty strong

I'm a man, yes i am, and i can't help but love you so
Man, yes i am, and i can't help but love you so
Man, yes i am, and i can't help but love you so
Man, yes i am, and i can't help but love you so

Can this feeling that we have together
Oooh, suddenly exist between
Did this meeting of our minds together
Oooh, happen just today, some way

I'd like to know
Can you tell me; please don't tell me
It really doesn't matter anyhow
It's just that the thought of us so happy
Appears in my mind, as a beautifully mysterious thing

Was your image in my mind so deeply
Oooh, other faces fade away
Blocking memories of unhappy hours
Oooh, leavin' just a burnin' love

I'd like to know
Can you tell me; please don't tell me
It really doesn't matter anyhow
It's just that the thought of us so happy
Appears in my mind, as a beautifully mysterious thing
Yes it does now baby

Can this lovin' we have found within us
Oooh, suddenly exist between
Did we somehow try to make it happen
Oooh, was it just a natural thing

I'd like to know
Can you tell me -- please don't tell me
It really doesn't matter anyhow
It's just that the thought of us so happy
Appears in my mind, as a beautifully mysterious thing
Yes it does now baby
Questions 67 and 68

As i was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was on my watch, yeah
And i said

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so i can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry

And i was walking down the street one day
A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had stopped cold dead
And i said

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so i can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry

And i was walking down the street one day
Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock, oh, no i just don't know
I don't know
And i said, yes i said

Background:
People runnin' everywhere
Don't know where to go
Don't know where i am
Can't see past the next step
Don't have time to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so i can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to die