The times they are a changing...

A friend of mine recently posted some lyrics to a Bob Dylan song on her blog and as I read them, I just thought climate change, climate change, climate change!!! 

 

Here in the Solies, things are gearing up for the Copenhagen negotiations. 

 

There are a bunch of young Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYADs) here in the country working with Government and non Government organisations on their program responses to climate change, on creating awareness about it amongst young people, and on supporting the Government's approach to the Copenhagen meetings. 

 

Every time we speak about the subject - there is a definite air of desperately wanting change; desperately wanting decision makers to hear the voices of the people most affected by climate change and extreme weather; desperately wanting to be able to stem the tide. 

 

For over 40 years Bob Dylan's music has been at the heart of expressing a desire for social change and you might think that'd make him old school. 

 

But this week when I re-read these lyrics I thought they were spot on the mark.   

 

Pass them on to your friends - check out the song on iTunes or YouTube and get the candle burning again! 

 

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'.   

 

 

 

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