Change

Billy's standing out by a west Texas highway

With his thumb in the morning air

He's spent 18 summers in the dust of Odessa

Never getting nowhere

But he's got him a misspelled cardboard of Albuquerque

Standin' in the breakdown lane

He ain't lookin' for a ride so much as he's looking for

A change, a little something different for cryin' out loud

A change, even for the worse would be better somehow

Sometimes you just cross that line where everything is more of the same

When it's do or die, step aside, turn the tide, something's gotta change

Betty's walkin' out of a tattoo parlor

She's got curlers in her hair

She still can't believe she had a little red rose

Put right on her derriere

And she's still gotta pick up that red lace teddy

And a bottle of pink champagne

Well her husband doesn't know it

But tonight, well, he's in for

A change, a little something different for cryin' out loud

Yeah, a change, even for the worse would be better somehow

Sometimes you just cross that line where everything is more of the same

When it's do or die, step aside, turn the tide, something's gotta change

Now who of us hasn't been heading home Friday

Sitting at some traffic light

Wondering what would happen if we just took a left

Instead of takin' that faithful old right?

It's the human condition, part of us wishes

That life wouldn't get so tame

And we all know better

Than to think that's it's ever gonna

Change, a little something different for cryin' out loud

Yeah, a change, even for the worse would be better somehow

Looking for a change

Change

Yeah, a change

Looking for a change, yeah