Times are Changing
The year was 1964.
The Beatles top the charts in America and appear on the Ed Sullivan show, Muhammad Ali beats Sonny Liston and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton got hitched for the first time, Radio Caroline became England’s first pirate radio station, a TV game show called Jeopardy! and a sitcom named Bewitched premiere, Sean Connery starred in From Russia with Love, a new car called the Ford Mustang was marketed, the first major student protest march against the Vietnam war was held in New York and San Francisco, the last Loony Tune cartoon is released, The Who‘s Pete Townsend destroys his first guitar, Roald Dahl writes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Bob Dylan releases The Times They are a Changing!
Almost fifty years later the Changes just keep on coming.
It’s Time for You to Change Things
Come gather young people all over the world.
Your friends found on Facebook Are worth plenty of gold.
But when you get home there’s nobody to hold.
It’s just you and your coffee-stained keyboard
. Your screen might be bright but your glimmer’s all gone
‘Cause it’s time for you to change things.
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You music collection has just gone mobile.
You keep seedy web movies of your girlfriends on file.
Your phone’s full of apps but you don’t know how to dial.
Anyway there’s nobody will answer.
Some fresh air could be good, it has been quite a while.
Yes it’s time for you to change things.
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Every morning you commute disguised as a sardine.
On the train back each eve the same victims are seen.
You’ve been making this journey since you were just nineteen.
But never talked to the people around you.
Real people, real faces where have they all been?
Yes it’s time for you to change things.
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Just imagine a world wherein strangers could talk.
Away from online based poker and farms without dirt.
Lets get back to the basics I’m sure it can’t hurt.
If you try you might even enjoy it.
A smile and hello and perhaps a short flir.
t Cause it’s time for you to change things.
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When Robert wrote Times he was sure things would change.
He envisioned a world with less people deranged.
The results of his dream may now seem kind of strange.
All the hippies are granddads with bellies.
All their friends and relations now visit on Skype.
Yes it’s times for us to change things.
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