When do you know it's time to change?
Will it be too late to grab at the rain?
Will the fire run wild and abandoned?
Will I still look down at my shoes?

I have everything I need to paint a brighter day
I have everything to gain and everything to lose
A day when I will fly into the Sun
Where darkness has no place
I can see it's time to change

When will we know it's time to change?
When congressmen mix oil with blood
When psychopaths unload their guns
On a foolish child waiting in turn
To pick up an ancestral curse

I have everything I need to paint a brighter day
I have everything to gain and everything to lose
A day when I will find a better way
Where violence has no place
I can see it's time to change

We have everything we need to build a better world
We have everything to gain and everything to lose
A world where no man fears his brothers
Where sisters walk hand in hand
There's a greater plan
It's time for change
Can't you see that it's time for change
I can see it's time to change