The Times They Are A-Changing

 

Come gather 'round people wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

Accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,

For the times are a changin"

 

Come writers and critics who prophecy with your pen

And keep you eyes wide, the chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin

And there's no telling who it is namin'

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'

 

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land

And don't criticize what you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand

For the times they are a-changin'

 

Come senators, congressmen please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside and it's ragin'

It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'

 

The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast

The slow one now will later be fast

And the present now will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin'

And the first one now will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

 

                                                   -- Bob Dylan

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