I still don't know what I was waiting for, and my time was running wild
a million dead-end streets.
Every time I thought I'd got it made it seemed the taste was not so sweet.
So I turned myself to face me but I've never caught a glimpse
of how the others must see the faker,
I'm much too fast to take that test.

Turn and face the strain. Changes.
Don't want to be a richer man, just gonna have to be a different man.
Time may change me but I can't trace time.

I watch the ripples change their size but never leave the stream
of warm impermanence,
and so the days float through my eyes but still the days seem the same.
And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations,
they're quite aware of what they're going through.

Turn and face the strain. Changes.
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it.
Where's your shame, you've left us up to our necks in it.
Time may change me but you can't trace time.

Strange fascination, fascinating me. Changes are taking the pace I'm going through.

Turn and face the strain. Changes.
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers, pretty soon you're gonna get a little older.
Time may change me but I can't trace time. I said that time may change me but I can't trace time.

David Bowie, Changes, Hunky Dory, 1971.