Chicago - Dialogue Part I & II 1972

　シカゴは５枚目のアルバムで初めて二枚組ではなく一枚のアルバムを出してきました。この中から一曲選ぶとすればやはりこの曲でしょうか？当時の小生の英語力でも当時のタイプの異なる学生同志の対話であることはわかりました。それにしてもギターとベースのボーカリストのかけ合い形式ですが、同時にふたりの演奏レベルも高いと思います。

<Part I>

(T)Are you optimistic about the way things are going?
(P)No, I never ever think of it at all
(T)Don't you ever worry when you see what's going down?
(P)No, I try to mind my business, that is, no business at all
(T)When it's time to function as a feeling human being
Will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by?
(P)I hope to study further, a few more years or so
I also hope to keep a steady high
(T)Will you try to change things
Use the power that you have, the power of a million new ideas?
(P)What is this power you speak of and this need for things to change?
I always thought that everything was fine
(T)Don't you feel repression just closing in around?
(P)No, the campus here is very, very free
(T)Don't it make you angry the way war is dragging on?
(P)Well, I hope the President knows what he's into, I don't know
(T)Don't you ever see the starvation in the city where you live
All the needless hunger all the needless pain?
(P)I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine
But my neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time

(T)Thank you for the talk, you know you really eased my mind
I was troubled by the shapes of things to come
(P)Well, if you had my outlook your feelings would be numb
You'd always think that everything was fine

<Part ii>

We can make it happen(* = repeat two times)
We can change the world now(*)
We can save the children(*)
We can make it better(*)
We can make it happen(*)
We can save the children(*)
We can make it happen(*)

(T)=Terry Kath　改革派
(P)=Peter Cetera　ノンポリ派

　パート１の最後の対話がなんともTが諦観したようで皮肉交じりでやるせない感じです。(numb=無感覚)
この終わり方でパート２になぜ突入できるのかがちょっとわかりにくいです。
PがTに同調する展開の後ならわかりますが。あるいはこんな展開がありがちな日常に負けないで頑張ろうという意味ですかね。

Chicago - Dialogue Part I & II (Album Version)