I'd love to change the world, but... (video)

Alvin Lee, Ten Years After, "I'd Love to Change the World"; Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

LYRICS: "I’d Love to Change the World"

Everywhere is

Freaks and hairies

Dykes and fairies

Tell me, where is sanity?

Tax the rich

Feed the poor

Till there are no

Rich no more

[CHORUS:]

I'd love to change the world

But I don't know what to do

So I'll leave it up to you

Population

Keeps on breeding

Nation bleeding

Still more feeding economy

Life is funny

Skies are sunny

Bees make honey

Who needs money? No, not poor me

• CHORUS 

World pollution

Is no solution

Execution

Electrocution

It's black and white

Rich or poor

Them and us

Stop the war

• CHORUS

Via genius.com. “I'd Love To Change The World” from Ten Years After’s album A Space in Time was written by guitarist/singer Alvin Lee. Due to its political lyrics, the song appealed to peaceniks and the younger generation. This led to it being a Top 40 hit on AM and FM simultaneously. It was psychedelic/hard rock released on Oct. 18, 1971.