The Times They Are aChangin — текст песни (Bob Dylan)

Come gather round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

Youll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you

Is worth savin

Then you better start swimmin

Or youll 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 wont come again

And dont speak too soon

For the wheels still in spin

And theres no tellin who

That its namin.

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin.



Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Dont stand in the doorway

Dont block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

Theres a battle outside

And it is ragin.

Itll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin.



Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And dont criticize

What you cant 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 cant 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.