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 savin

Then you better start swimmin

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a changin

Come writers and critics who prophecise with your pen

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 tellin' who

That it's namin

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 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

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 your hand

For the times they are a changing

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now will

Later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fading

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a changing