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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 youIs worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.<\/p>\n

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize 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’.<\/p>\n

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.<\/p>\n

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the landAnd don’t criticize
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’.<\/p>\n

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’.<\/p>\n

For some reason I had a dream last night that incorporated this song. As I later pondered what Dylan said it occurred to me that this song, amongst all the others, was prophetic.<\/p>\n

Prophetic in the sense that the times we were going through when he wrote the song, and the period since, have changed what was into a time that has shaken our windows and rattled our walls, unlike any period in history.<\/p>\n

Our sons and our daughters (generally speaking) are beyond our control, and the line is drawn and the curse it is cast. What was will never be again.<\/p>\n

Depending on which side of the line one is on, the perspective is different. How did Dylan know how rapidly the times were changing? Was he hoping or guessing, or did he have some insight (drug induced, perhaps?) that those of us less into the culture of the day didn’t have?<\/p>\n

If the case was that some of us were so wrapped up in our own little world that we didn’t pay attention then, what can we make of what is happening in our world today?<\/p>\n

What are you thoughts with respect to what Dylan wrote?<\/p>\n

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