Things Are Changing (Remix)

[Intro — sampled chorus, chopped and pitched] Things are changing Things are changing We'll be okay We'll be— [beat drops, dusty drums enter] Yeah They told us we'd be okay Let's see about that [Verse 1] I used to trace my name in broken glass Now I sign checks and hope they pass The old café is a shining blue I drive past it and I still think of you Daddy said it's all too fast He was right but the gas don't last We was holding hands through the rearranging Now the world's so strange it's barely changing Same problems different decade Same prayer just a different label I kept the record finding groove But the needle jumped and the room moved And nobody told me the ground stays strange That "okay" is something you rearrange Every morning you wake up and choose it Every evening you wonder if you blew it [Chorus — full sample, warm and bright beneath the beat] But the times keep turning sweetly Like a record finding groove Yeah The world is rearranging But my hand still fits in you When the ground feels strange beneath me And the sky's a different shade Things are changing Things are changing We'll be okay [Verse 2] My brother packed the car and drove Said this town's a joke and he wasn't joking Mama cried then laughed too hard I get it now — that's how you guard Your heart from the leaving From the not-believing That the people who go still love you from the road He touched the clouds and sent a postcard back Said the sky up here is still the same shade black As the one over the field they paved last June Under the same moon Different room Same tune I play it low on the dashboard Trying to remember who I was before the crash course In being grown In being alone in a house with a phone And nobody calling [Chorus — sample again, but the beat strips back, just kick and snare] Still the times keep turning sweetly Like a record finding groove Yeah The world is rearranging But my hand still fits in you When the ground feels strange beneath me And the sky's a different shade Things are changing Things are changing We'll be okay [Bridge — sample chopped and stuttered] Maybe farms turn into factories Maybe farms turn into— Maybe trains all learn to— Maybe trains all learn to fly [beat cuts out] But I'll wake up on a Monday [beat returns, half-time] And you'll still be by my side [verse enters over the half-time groove] [Verse 3] Mm — by my side That's the part I held onto When the side got wide and the rent came due When the dream didn't fit inside the town And the town didn't fit inside the dream I found I'm not the kid with the broken glass I'm not the man that the kid would guess But I'm still here and the record spins And the times keep turning and the groove still wins Not because it's easy Not because it's fair Because we kept the hand and we kept the prayer Things are changing — yeah I know We'll be okay — yeah I hope That's the difference now The hope is earned The field is gone but the fire burned And I'm still warm [Outro — sample fading, layered under the rap] Things are changing Things are changing We'll be okay