Come gather round people wherever you roam

And admit that you're all drenched to the bone
And accept it that you're only a stone
Oh your time is only in lendin'
Those who could swim left you all here alone
For the times they are a-endin'

Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
You can switch a career the chance won't come again
But you better do it soon for the wheel seeks revenge
And there's no telling where it is sendin'
You'll all go down there the question is when
For the times they are a-endin'

Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
Go laugh with your friends go play with your ball
For everybody got hurt except for you all
Think that for you the battle aint offendin'
But when it all ends everyone will fall
For the times they are a-endin'

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
Nobody criticize no one understands
Your sons and your daughters are buried in sand
The new road is rapidly bendin'
And the men who do walk it are men without hands
For the times they are a-endin

The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be past
Like the future and the present who both died at last
The moral is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will eat up the last
For the times they are a-endin'

Come bards and philosophers who had a conclusion
D'you remember the sweet smell of the revolution?
Well it ended up to be just the stench of pollution
If your brain is still worth attendin'
Then you better talk now cause we need a solution
'For the times they are a-endin