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Once upon another time

I witnessed a butterfly

Drying off his tinted wings

And heave himself into the sky

He said, “Today is my big goodbye.

You see I’m leavin’ my old-time cacoon behind.”

You know that what goes up falls down

And sooner or later we all come around

Like a boomerang

that never hits the ground

We go around and around and come back with what we found

Change is coming, it’s on my mind

Change is coming, you can’t rewind

Time has a rhythm; history rhymes

Change is coming, don’t get left behind (resolve to root)

Recognize, we metamorphisize

And see the same world from very different eyes

From the tadpole swimming to the green frog hop hopping

Everythings’ changing and it’s all non-stoppin’

From the chick to the chicken, from the ocean to the kitchen

Be the fish or go fishin’, livin’ life like a mission

Subtracting by addition. Multiply and divide

And remember: nothing’s constant but the ocean’s tide (I’m talkin’)

Change is coming, it’s on my mind

Change is coming, you can’t rewind

Time has a rhythm; history rhymes

Change is coming, don’t get left behind