"Change (What's It Gonna Take)" lyrics

Listen up, listen up now baby
Hear that sound
Sounds a lot like revolution
Going down

Take a look, take a one last look
Give a kiss goodbye
You get what you get when you burn too long
And burn too bright

Can't live by the needle
When the sweetness goes sour
Can't stand in the shadow
While the man takes your power

There ain't no arrival
When you got no direction
Nothing gets done if all you got are
Good intentions

Pack it up, pack it up now baby
Let's get gone
Time to leave this super highway
We've been on

Little bit by little bit
Baby make that change
It's a whole new world and a whole new trick
In a whole new ball game

(What's it gonna take now?)

Gonna take some fallen angels
Gonna take some rain
Gonna take some holy water
(Circling the drain)
To change
Gonna take a heart on fire
An eternal flame
Gonna take some human kindness
To change

Turn it up, turn it up
Yo crank it, get it off loud
To the beat of the road and the rubber
Roll that dirty window down

Coming up, coming up, coming up
We'll take our drinks in the shade
But freedom can be so elusive to me
Once in focus it's all bound to fade

(What's it gonna take now?)

Gonna take some fallen angels
Gonna take some rain
Gonna take some holy water
(Circling the drain)
To change
Gonna take a heart on fire
An eternal flame
Gonna take some human kindness
To change

(What's it gonna take now?)

(What's it gonna take now?)

Gonna take some fallen angels
Gonna take some rain
Gonna take some holy water
(Circling the drain)
To change
Gonna take a heart on fire
An eternal flame
Gonna take some human kindness
To change

(What's it gonna take now?)

(What's it gonna take now?)