1. Are you optimistic 'bout the way that things are going?: No, I never ever think of it at all
2. Don't you ever worry when you see this?: What's going down
3. What's my business that I try to mind?: No business at all
4. What degree is he studying for?: Bachelor of Arts
5. What does he also hope to keep?: A steady high
6. The power of how many new ideas?: A million
7. What did he always think?: That everything was fine
8. Don't you feel repression just a closing in around?: No, the campus here is very very free
9. Don't it make you angry the way war is dragging on?: Well, I hope the President knows what he's in to, I don't know
10. Don't you see this in the city where you live?: Starvation
11. Why not?: I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine
12. What haven't his neighbors got?: The time (to feel hungry)
13. Why does the first singer thank the second for the talk?: You really eased my mind, I was troubled by the shape of things to come
14. Well, if you had his outlook, your feelings would be what?: Numb
15. What would you always think?: That everything was fine
16. What can we change?: The world, now
17. Who wrote the song?: Robert Lamm

Bonus: What word does the song cut off in the middle of?: Hap (pen)