The Times They Are a-Changin – Bob Dylan：歌詞及意思
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The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) – Bob Dylan
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) – Bob Dylan
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’
The Times They Are A-Changin 歌曲，由著名創作歌手Bob Dylan 在1964年唱出，歌曲長達3分15秒，類型屬於民謠歌曲。在填詞到作曲方面，都是由Bob Dylan親自打理。在1964年推出單曲時，成功擠進英國熱門單曲排行榜，而美國則沒有發行。其後，更被收錄於同名專輯《The Times They Are a-Changin》。
作品對後世都有很大程度的影響力，加上口碑及銷量同樣地正面。值得一提的是無數翻唱版本，Bob Dylan的作品都會受到不少歌手的重視。另外，不少得經常提及到的滾石雜誌，作品被列入500首最偉大歌曲之一。除此之外，在流行文化方面，不少電影及劇集都把歌曲用作配樂。歌曲可說是，既能做到流行熱潮，又能做得到充滿意思的文學作品。
歌曲主要受到愛爾蘭及蘇格蘭的民謠歌曲影響，而令到Bob Dylan 創下作品。另外，作品主題圍繞抗爭及社會運動，特別是當時的熱門話題，民權運動，喚醒人們對當時社會的意識。
歌詞方面
填詞作曲由 Bob Dylan 一手負責
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 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 the times they are a-changin’
