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'

Lyrics written in 1963 by Bob Dylan to record the radical social changes taking place at the time. Ironically in another period of significant protest and social change, with the student riot in London this week, the meaning is just as relevant today as it was at the time of the civil rights issues and Cuban Missile crisis back in the early Sixties.