Everything has changed, though nothing has.
They’ve changed the locks on almost every door,
and windows have been bolted just in case.
It’s business as usual, someone says.
Is anybody left to mind the store?
Everything has changed, though nothing has.
The same old buildings huddle in the haze,
with faces at the windows, floor by floor,
the windows they have bolted just in case.
No cause for panic, they maintain, because
the streets go places they have been before.
Everything has changed, though nothing has.
We’re still a country that is ruled by laws.
The system’s working, and it’s quite a bore
that windows have been bolted just in case.
Believe in victory and all that jazz.
Believe we’re better off, that less is more.
Everything has changed, though nothing has.
The windows have been bolted just in case.