The Times They Are Changin’ - Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan - February/March 1978 Songtext
von Bob Dylan

Thank you so very kind, for really I
We′ll play you this song
I wrote this also about 15 years ago
Still means a lot to me
I know it means a lot to you too

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
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 prophesize with your pen
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
Might 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 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′


Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And 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′

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 times they are a changin'
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)

Thank you
Will be here for four more nights
Where we′ll see you again
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)