The Times They Are A-Changin'

For the times they are a-changin'
As the present now will later be past
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
There's a battle outside and it is ragin'
If your time to you is worth savin'
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
For the times they are a-changin'
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
For the times they are a-changin'
And the first one now will later be last
The order is rapidly fadin'
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
For the loser now will be later to win
And don't criticize what you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
The slow one now will later be fast

And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'

Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
The line it is drawn, and the curse it is cast
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
Your old road is rapidly fadin'