the times they are a changin

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Come gather 'round people
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Wherever you roam
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And admit that the waters
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Around you have grown
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And accept it that soon
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You'll be drenched to the bone.
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If your time to you
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Is worth savin'
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Then you better start swimmin'
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Or you'll sink like a stone
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For the times they are a-changin'.


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Come writers and critics
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Who prophesize with your pen
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And keep your eyes wide
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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 first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.