Ch-Ch-Changing to a Precise Center

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changing to a Precise Center

By Jane Tawel

February 3, 2020

If you have never listened to, or haven’t listened in a while, to David Bowie’s 1970’s hit, “Changes”, please do. Here are the lyrics in case your LP record stereo or your 8-Track Tape Player aren’t handy.

Still don’t know what I was waitin’ for
And my time was runnin’ wild
A million dead end streets and
Every time I thought I’d got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
How the others must see the faker
I’m much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
There’s gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time.

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these…