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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about The Times They Are A-Changin' (page 1/1) ------ performed by Bob Dylan Prophetic street anthem for our times | Reviewer: Steve Borrow | 3/5/2008 Reviewer: sbo25100@bigpond.net.au | 3/1/2008 This song was written at a time when the civil rights movement was building a powerful momentum and the youth of the world were questioning the injustices they had inherited. It is, in one sense, a messianic prophesy and, in another, a call to arms. Bob calls on us (“people wherever we roam”) to prepare ourselves for an enveloping tide of social change that he predicts will unsettle the current order of things. He issues a plea to the keepers of conventional wisdom: parents, politicians, and writers, to accept the inevitability of this or be overwhelmed by it. The youth, he warns, can no longer be contained and will demand that your old ideas give way to their new vision. Like many of the Bob Dylan’s songs written at this time, it became something of an anthem for the international protest movement. Bob was right, of course. The times were a'changing, are a'changing, and will continue to change. Just ask Joe Hill when next you see him. Add Your New Review About The Song