Come gather around people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
Accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
And if your time to you is worth saving
Well you better start swimming or sink like a stone
For the time they are changing
Come writers and critics who prophesize with pen
Keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
Don't speak too soon when the wheel's still in spin
The old road is rapidly aging
And the loser now will be later to win
Cause the times they are changing
Come senator, congressmen,please heed the cause
Don't stand in the door way or block up the halls
For he who gets hurt will be he who has stalled
And the battle outside that is raging
It will soon shake your window and rattle your walls
For the time they are changing
For the time they are changing