Appears on: Blind Melon, Classic Masters, 7" green vinyl, 12" picture disc with poster and with two color postcards, Live EP, Galaxie single, CD Digipak, a short form video, Letters From a Porcupine

Recorded at: London Bridge Studios, Seattle, WA in 1992

Produced and mixed by: Rick Parashar and Blind Melon

Glen: drums
Brad: bass
Shannon: vocals
Christopher: guitar, harmonica
Rogers: guitar

Live Performances: played very frequently

Notes:
(From Details July 1996) Just before Shannon left town, he wrote a song called "Change."  It would become one of Blind Melon's very best.  He would sit on his mother's porch, singing it over and over in his beautiful husky, high voice, and his mother would listen in, so proud and happy.  The family considers it a song of wonderful innocence; a song of hope. He told Chris Jones about the day he wrote Change: "He wrote it at the very end of a three-day coke binge in Indiana.  During the first part I don't feel the sun's gonna come out today he was on the other side of the room, trying to see through the venetian blinds which were drawn so no light was coming in, and he was at a point where he couldn't even get up."

Christopher: "People really like that song when we play it live.  It's amazing. Even in the first couple months, when we were playing to 50 people in a club, Change always got a strong reaction."

The song reached #35 in the UK top 40 singles chart.

The lyrics, I know we can't all stay here forever so I want to write my words on the face of today and they'll paint it, are on Shannon's gravestone.

The song was on the 4 song demo tape, The Goodfoot Workshop, which got the band a record deal with Capitol Records.

If you listen to the song on a stereo through only the left speaker, you hear the intro with only the vocals and harmonica.

Lyrics:
I don’t feel the sun's comin’ out today
its staying in,
its gonna find another way.
As I sit here in this misery,
I don’t think I’ll ever see the sun from here.
And oh as I fade away,
they’ll all look at me and say,
and they’ll say,
Hey look at him,
I’ll never live that way,
But that’s ok they're just afraid to change.
When you feel your life ain’t worth living,
you‘ve got to stand up and take a look around you then a look way up to the sky.
And when your deepest thoughts are broken,
keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreamin’ it’s time to die.
And as we all play parts of tomorrow,
some ways will work and other ways we’ll play
But I know we all can’t stay here forever,
so I want to write my words on the face of today and then they’ll paint it.
And oh as I fade away,
they’ll all look at me and say,
hey look at him and where he is these days
When life is hard you have to change.