And admit that the waters
Accept it that soon you'll
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
or you'll sink like a stone
who prophesize with your pen
the chance won't come again
for the wheel's still a -spin
For the loser now will be later to win
And the times, they are a -changin'
Don't stand in the doorway,
will be he who has stalled
The battle outside is a -raging
And it will soon shake your windows
Your sons and your daughters
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out 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 fading
And the first one now will later be last
The king is here, at least in his mind
But he doesn't know how to be kind
The people rebel, the kingdom may fall,
but he doesn't care at all.
when they turn into sins,
The times we are changin'