Come gather around 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 saving
Then you better start swimming
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are changing

Come riders and critics
Who prophesy with your pen
And keep your eyes wide the chance
Won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheels still in spin
There's no telling for the loser now will be let win for
The times they are changing

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call don't stand
In the door don't block up the
Hall for he that gets hurt will be he
Who has stalled the battle outside the
Range
Will soon
Rattle your walls for the times they are
Changing

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 for the times they are
Changing