The Times Are A-Changin'

Phil Collins miscellaneous
The Times Are A-Changin'
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone -
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'
Come writers and critics
Who prophecise with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
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 the hall for he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled there's a battle
Outside and it's 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 criticise
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'