Times Changed

Come gather round people the time is now past

The last are now first and the first are now last

The pendulum has swung you better leave fast

With revenge and payback they're now raging

Don't try reason or argument this is about caste

It's the culmination of times that were changing

Oh critics and skeptics don't bother with the pen

They control the media, won't make that mistake again 

To silence you they'll smear, defame you and then

Put you out to a public hanging

It ain't a question of if, it's a question of when

It's the culmination of times that were changing

Congressmen and senators are in on the take

Won't stand for right 'cause of the money they'll make

Their position and power is what's really at stake

It's their own necks that they're saving

To go against the tide makes them fear and quake

It's the culmination of times that were changing 

The sons and the daughters are in control now

Like their parents before them they'll dictate how

You will speak and believe, your knees will bow

Their way is the only way you'll be behaving 

Don't challenge or contradict them, this they won't allow

It's the culmination of times that were changing

The die is cast, the mold has been broke

The tares grow fast, it's the wheat they choke

The history of freedom goes up in smoke

While blind leaders on the drums keep banging

With the next grievance your next right they'll revoke

It's the culmination of times that were changing

September 2016

Bob Dylan's song was used as the basis for this poem