Before the change

He walks the dog

Like my uncle did

Before the world changed

Before everything

Needed to get sold

Before anybody

Could make an honest buck

Before the landscape

Got raped and over developed

When the air still

Smelled clean,

When he stroke

The back fields

Before he needed to

Keep everything on a leash

Need to mark everything down

In an account book

Of who owes who

And for what

Before the change

When he still believed

This path led to someplace

Other than where it leads,

When we all believed

We had what it took

To get somewhere

Other than what we did

When we all thought

Love was enough.