A response to the song, "Just the Way You Are":
But it's so hard to stay "just the way you are." Some people may stay just the way they are for longer periods of time than others, but they will undergo some kind of change eventually, unless the beholder decides to ignore them. But that would be so sad--for the changes to go willfully unnoticed.
So the song is verily synchronic. Like Saussure's system of signs.