Things Change

They wouldn't let him play the opry
 With whiskey on his breath
 And it didn't take 'em long
 To figure out what they missed
 He went down that lost highway
 Underneath that purple sky
 A legend disappeared before his time
 Things change (change)
 They said he was the devil
 Dressed in gold lame
 The way he shook his hips
 Up there on the stage
 But before that fateful day
 He left Tennessee
 All of them were calling him the king
 Things change (things change)
 Well, they like to call them hippies
 Outlaws with guitars
 But they brought a little poetry
 To the honky-tonks and bars
 They might've got a little too crazy
 They might've flown a little too high
 But somewhere somebody's playing their songs tonight
 (Things change)
 Don't you know they change (things change)
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 Now some say it's too country
 Some say it's too rock 'n' roll
 But it's just good music
 If you can feel it in your soul
 And it doesn't really matter
 It's always been the same
 Life goes on
 Things change (things change)
 Things change (things change)
 Don't you know they change
 (Things change) yeah, yeah, yeah
 They can't keep me from change
 (Things change)
 (Things change)
 Keep on, keep on, keep on changin'
 (Things change)
 'Cause things change