Someone recently recommended Phil Ochs' music to me, and I liked Changes so much that I decided to do a cover of it. This song is also fitting since the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a lot of changes for all of us. I wish you and your family and friends well, and I hope that you are able to find some solace in the midst of this tragedy.

Big thanks to freepats.zenvoid.org for the piano soundfont file that made my crappy thrift store piano sound infinitely better through the power of MIDI and the Creative Commons License. :)

Lyrics

Sit by my side, come as close as the air Share in a memory of gray Wander in my words, dream about the pictures That I play of changes

Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall To brown and to yellow they fade And then they have to die, trapped within The circle time parade of changes

Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind Visions of shadows that shine Til one day I returned and found they were the Victims of the vines of changes

The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark Swings through a hollow of haze A race around the stars, a journey through The universe ablaze with changes

(instrumental)

Moments of magic will glow in the night All fears of the forest are gone But when the morning breaks they're swept away by Golden drops of dawn, of changes

Passions will part to a strange melody As fires will sometimes burn cold Like petals in the wind, we're puppets to the silver Strings of souls, of changes

Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else One last cup of wine we will pour And I'll kiss you one more time, and leave you on The rolling river shores of changes

Sit by my side, come as close as the air Share in a memory of gray Wander in my words, dream about the pictures That I play of changes