The Times They Are A-Changin'

(album: Peace... Back By Popular Demand - 2004)

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 better start swimming
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times, they are a-changing

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 telling who that it's naming
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times, they are a-changing

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 the one who 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-changing

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 againg
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand
For the times, they are a-changing

The line, it is drawn and the curse, it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
And the present now will later be past

And the order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times, they are a-changing