Bob Dylan (song lyric)

 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 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'

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 up the hall.

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled.

There's a battle outside and it is 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-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 fist one now will later

be last, for the times they are a-changin'!