Where ever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And excepted that soon
You’ll be drench to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
And you better start swimming
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
Come writers and critics
Who prophesy with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
Don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no telling
Who’s that it’s naming
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 doorway
Don’t block up the hall
But he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
With the battle outside
Will be raging
It will strike at your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
Mothers and fathers throughout the land
Don’t criticize things
That you don’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
And your old world is rapidly aging
Please get out a new one
If you can lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’
The line it is drawn the cursed is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
Your old world is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
