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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDylan spoke the truth
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 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'.
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 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 the times they are a-changin'. ----Bob Dylan
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Dylan spoke the truth (Original Post)
randr
Sep 2013
OP
Yes he is but what about the newer/younger ones? What are they doing? I ask because I don't know.
Little Star
Sep 2013
#7
Yes he did, but this one I think is more relevant at this moment, "masters of war"
themaguffin
Sep 2013
#8
deutsey
(20,166 posts)1. That opening stanza is especially prescient today
considering the rising waters resulting from climate change.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)2. We were just talking about how song writers did a good job of....
talking to youth, through their music, about important stuff. They helped young people do some deep thinking. They had a huge influence on the youth of my generation.
Are there any more like Dylan in todays music? It doesn't seem so, but I'm kinda old and out of hearing the newer music much.
k&r
dawg
(10,624 posts)3. And we can't stop ....
and we won't stop.
randr
(12,411 posts)4. Dylan is still going strong
Little Star
(17,055 posts)7. Yes he is but what about the newer/younger ones? What are they doing? I ask because I don't know.
randr
(12,411 posts)9. Check out the new progressive radio
with young volunteer DJs, such as www.kvnf.org.
treestar
(82,383 posts)5. What is changing now that could be remotely compared
to the changes in the 1960s?
Bragi
(7,650 posts)6. The 60s saw profound change generally for the better...
Today we have equally profound, or even more profound, change definitely for the worse.
themaguffin
(3,826 posts)8. Yes he did, but this one I think is more relevant at this moment, "masters of war"