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 the purple sky   A legend disappeared before his time   Things Change     They said he was the devil  dressed in gold leme  The way he shook his hips   out there on that stage   But before that faithful day   He left Tennessee   All of them were calling him the king  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 crazy   They might have flew a little too high  Somewhere somebody's playing their song tonight  Things Change   (Don't you know things change)    Now some say it's too country   Some say it's a little rock n roll  But it's just good music   If you can feel it in your soul   It doesn't really matter   It's always been the same   life goes on   Things Change    [Bridge:]  Don't you know they change  Oh, things change  As long as this world is turning  Things are gonna change  Gonna keep on changing  Gonna change