We Will Adjust

We Will Adjust
by Jon Cobert & Tom Chapin
© 2009 Red Wagon Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

I took a walk down Main Street
In the pouring rain,
The new bank on the corner
Once again has changed it's name.
And the market and the drug store
Have merged into a chain,
This neighborhood
Just does not look the same.

Got a digital camera, got a new cell phone,
Though I can't figure out
How to download a ring tone.
I call and leave a message,
My kids send back a text.
Things do change,
But whatever happens next…
We will adjust to whatever is thrown at us.
We will adjust and do just what we must.
We learned to Email and TiVo
Without a lot of fuss. We will adjust.

The Ice Cap is melting,
Wall Street's melting too.
Gas prices go up and down,
What are we to do?
Recession and depression
Are out of our control.
So turn it up and let the bad times roll.
We will adjust to whatever is thrown at us.
We will adjust and do just what we must.
We were born to be adaptable,
Live through boom or bust.
We will adjust.

Heard a coyote on Sunset Boulevard
After dark,
Saw a Red Hawk hunting pigeons
In Central Park.
The deer snip off our flower buds
Like you cut 'em with a knife,
And I've been fighting roaches all my life.

But I've seen the human animal
Change his habits too.
We tinker and we jury-rig
And somehow make it through.
Every generation, every link on the chain,
Is thrown into the unknown
And here we go again.
We will adjust to whatever is thrown at us.
We will adjust and do just what we must.
There's a core of steel
Hidden underneath the rust.
We will adjust.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Let The Bad Times Roll CD.

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