People ask me what I'd change.
It's not a question I'm unfamiliar with
Or one that I haven't spent countless nights pondering.
People ask me what I'd change;
I tell them nothing.

I tell them nothing.
Not because I don't want to change the world
Or because I don't understand the question.
I tell them nothing
Because what I want is change found deep within my soul
A renewal, a clensing, a thirst for the light
That our shallow language doesn't understand.

I want to change the hearts of those around me
I want to change the lives of those I love
I want to change town that I live in
But I don't want anyone to know.

Here's what's wrong with the question:
It has the big word "I"
And whenever an individual sets out to change the world
It becomes this power struggle
Between right and wrong
Left and right
Peace and war.

Look at history, 
Empires fall, democracies crumble
And no matter how selfless the change
When man uses the word "I" 
It leads down a road of corruption. 

But when we omit "I" from the question
When we take out the personal but not the personality
The question becomes "What would change?"
And isn't that more powerful?

Isn't that what changes the world?

What I would change is the question.
Because once you change the question
You change the way you think
And if we change the way we think
And we take out the "I" and the "We"
Then you have change on the deepest level
Beyond human awareness
Beyond human biases 
Beyond humanity
Speaking inwardly into the hearts and minds
Of our lost generation.

What would change if we let people in?
If we kept out the street but let the homeless
The broken, those who are alone in.
What would change if we saw past the hate and society's blindness
To the hearts of the people next to us
Above us, Under us, In front of us, Behind us.
What would change if we looked beyond ourselves and no longer cared
About the money or the fame or the "I" in the question?

Because here's the truth through the lies:
I can't change but change must come.
Change must come from the souls
Change must come from the lives
Change must come from the actions 
Of every person on earth.

What would change if we looked beyond our feeble minds
And feeble hearts and singularity
And aloneness and forgottenness
And brokenness and sinfulness
To see that we all bleed red 
To see that we all must eat
To see that we all must love?

People ask me what I would change
And I tell them
Nothing.