ATF: Why?

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Bob Dylan]

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Bob Dylan

Come gather around 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

The battle

Outside

Ragin'

Will soon shake your windows

And vibrate 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

Aging

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

And 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

Fading

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times

They are

A-changin'

Link: [Keith Urban]

Days Go By

Keith Urban

I’m changin' lanes

And talkin' on the phone

And drivin' way too fast

The interstate's jammed

With gunners like me

Afraid of comin' in last

But somewhere in the race we run

We're comin' undone

And days go by

I can feel them flyin'

Like a hand

Out the window

In the wind

The cars go by

Yeah it's all we've been given

So you’d better start livin'

Right now

'Cause days go by

Out on the roof

Just the other night

I watched the world flash by

Headlights

Taillights

And runnin' through the river

Of neon signs

But somewhere in the rush I felt

We're losin' ourselves

And days go by

I can feel them flyin'

Like a hand

Out the window

In the wind

The cars go by

Yeah it's all we've been given

So you’d better start livin'

Right now

'Cause days go by

Yeah

The days go by

We think about tomorrow

Then it slips away

Oh yes it does

We talk about forever

But we've only got today

And the days go by

I can feel them flyin'

Like a hand

Out the window

As the cars go by

Yeah it's all we've been given

So you'd better start livin'

You’d better start livin'

Better start livin'

Right now

‘Cause days go by

I can feel them flyin'

Like a hand

Out the window

In the wind

The cars go by

Yeah it's all we've been given

So you’d better start livin'

Right now

'Cause days go by

Yeah

These days go by

Oh

So take them by the hand

They're yours and mine

Take them by the hand

And live your life

Take them by the hand

Don't let them all fly by

Come on

Come on now

Come on now

Don't you know

The days go by

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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