Lyric The Times 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 prophesize 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
Cause 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 doorways
Don t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he that has stalled
The battle outside ragin
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin

Come mothers and fathers
All over 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-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
The first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin
For the times they are a-changin