The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan / Bob Dylan: the Times, they are a a-Changin' (1964)
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Come | gather 'round | people wher | ever you | roam |
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And ad | mit that the | waters a | round you have | grown! |
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And ac | cept it that | soon you'll be | drenched to the | bone |
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If your | time to | you is worth | savin'! |
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Then you | better start | swimmin' or you'll | sink like a | stone |
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For the | times, they are a | cha- | an- | gin'! |
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 mothers and fathers throughout the land - And don't criticize what you don'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 the times they are a-changin'! |
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 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'! |
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 fadin'! |
And the first one now will later be last - For the times they are a-changin'! |