[ti:The Times They Are a-Changin'] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare And Unreleased) 1961-1991] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Times They Are a-Changin' - Bob Dylan [00:00.25]Written by:Bob Dylan/Jeff Rosen [00:00.51]Come gather 'round people [00:03.11]Wherever you roam [00:05.29] [00:06.85]And admit that the waters [00:09.63]Around you have grown [00:11.49] [00:12.93]And accept it that soon [00:15.08]You'll be drenched to the bone [00:17.51] [00:18.76]And if your breath to you is worth saving [00:22.77] [00:23.59]Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone [00:28.61]For the times they are a changing [00:33.49] [00:37.13]Come writers and critics [00:39.40]Who prophesize with your pen [00:41.76] [00:44.31]And keep your eyes wide [00:46.78]The chance won't come again [00:49.01] [00:50.40]And don't speak too soon [00:52.76]For the wheel's still in spin [00:54.94] [00:56.09]And there's no telling who that it's naming [01:00.25] [01:01.25]For the loser now will be later to win [01:06.13]Cause the times they are a changing [01:10.57] [01:15.86]Come senators congressmen [01:18.66]Please heed the call [01:20.23] [01:21.65]Don't stand in the doorway [01:24.12]Don't block up the hall [01:26.44]For he that gets hurt [01:28.42]Will be he who has stalled [01:30.89] [01:32.23]There's the battle outside raging [01:35.86] [01:36.81]It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls [01:41.83]For the times they are a changing [01:46.65] [01:50.29]Come mothers and fathers [01:53.05]Throughout the land [01:54.87] [01:56.13]And don't criticize [01:58.20]What you can't understand [02:00.82]Your sons and your daughters [02:02.99]Are beyond your command [02:05.05] [02:06.10]Your old road is rapidly aging [02:10.76]Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand [02:15.66]Cause the times they are a changing [02:20.59] [02:25.20]The line it is drawn [02:27.59]The curse it is cast [02:29.51] [02:30.85]The slowest now [02:33.36]Will later be fast [02:36.06]As the present now [02:38.16]Will later be past [02:40.17] [02:41.39]The order is rapidly fading [02:45.42] [02:45.94]And the first one now will later be last [02:51.10]Cause the times they are a changing