Always Change

There's a crumbling statue

Next to heaven's gate

And it's covered in scratches

That the weather made

Has an old engraving

Though it's growing fade

And it says things always change (change)

And you felt it mostly

In your melted youth

When you held him closely

And you held him through

But you grew complacent

Like you knew he'd stay

Now you know things always change (change)

You're performing favors

You're in foreign trade

Your important papers

In the pouring rain

And the ink's all bleeding

And it can't be saved

But you know things always change (change)

In the radiation

In the radio waves

In the drainage basin

Full of ancient rain

In the publications

In the painted caves

It is plainly stated

Written plain as day

That we know things always change (change)

Though your faith is fading

You're remaining chaste

There's a trace of anger

In your savior's face

And the sons of Jacob

Wrote an old refrain

Hear the angels play it

When you misbehave

But the arrangements always change (change)

By the light of nothing

Writing lines of code

You're dividing constants

Tryin' to find unknowns

There's an endless number

Filling every page

And it proves things always change (change)