Daily Lyrics Assignment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE

"The Times They Are A Changing"
Bob Dylan

1. I chose this song because I like the sound of it and the emotions it makes me feel. I first heard it in the movie Watchmen which is now one of my favorite movies.

2. It's describing a great change happening and begging people not to cling to their old ways and fight the process but to work through it. Written during the 1960's it became an anti establishmentary song. "An anthem for the hippie movement"

3. The structure is normal? It seems to have a rhyming pattern every few lines.

4. The tone sounds almost sad and remorseful but at the same time pleading. The person singing has accepted whats happening and is trying to tell people around them to do the same.

5. The lesson is that you either accept the changes and adapt or you are going to be left by the wayside.

6. To try and get people in power and the "authority figures" in our lives to understand that the young people in this country are changing and they need to accept that.

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 prophesies 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