The Times They Are A-Changin'

Come gather round people wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth saving

Then you’d better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone



For the times, they are a-changin’



Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pens

And keep your 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 that it’s naming

For the loser now will be later to win

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 halls

For he that gets hurt will be he that has stalled

There’s a battle outside and it’s raging

It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

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 aging

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

For the times they are a-changin’



The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast

The slow one will later be fast

And the present now will later be the past

The order is rapidly fading

The first one now will later be last

For the times, they are a-changin’








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