The Times They Are A Changin'

The Times They Are A Changin' - Dave Mekon

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 prophesize with your pen

Keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

Don't speak too soon

Cause 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 they are a-changin'

Come senators Congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand at 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'

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

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 your times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn

And 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 fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'