Things Will Never Be the Same/The Times They Are A-Changin
Things have never been the same/The Times They Are A-Changin.
Chandler, Rockstroh/Bob Dylan
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'
Things have never been the same.
Things have never been the same.
Things have never been the same
since the big bang....
since the first cosmic gasses cooled into liquid and vast lifeless oceans began to seethe with DNA and the seas began to swim with life-- and some of that life didn't like it in the ocean where its parent's lived and thus hauled itself onto the land.... This event caused all the conservative fish to cry out in alarm at the intrepid lung fish: "Don't you go and do it. Fish should stay at home! We live in water. We swim-- We don't walk. We'll lose our very fishness if we were ever caught walking."
Alliances were formed to stop this sort of thing. Slogans were shaped to fit their purpose: "Things will never been the same!" "What ever happened to traditional values?" The Coalition of Concerned Gill-Breathers cried out. While their Paranoid prophet - a shell fish by the name of Nostradomus - predicted a dark future of death camps called Red Lobster-- and an evil tyrant named Long John Silver.
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Things will never be the same.
Right now-- at this very instant-- a sperm cell is fusing with an ovulating egg-- and neither are ever going to be the same again....
Do they have second thoughts?
Perhaps they are nostalgic for their carefree single days?
Was their intimacy achieved too quickly?
Perhaps causing dysfunctional moments to arise? "Look I told you that you could move into my womb-- but you moved in and got your DNA all mixed up with mine! Now, I don't know where you start and I begin. This is causing me some real problems with my personal boundary issues!"
And that fetus grows into a breathing infant-- and is soon pulled from its mother's breast and weaned-- And mother and child will never the same again....
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'.
And let not ever talk about puberty (which some claim is a stage of life-- but I posit it is more of an affliction)...
For Puberiy leads us to freedom
...Oh freedom, now there is a development that can be even more bewildering than puberty-- and every bit as ugly to witness: And freedom can be really ugly: A fact that anyone who has ever watched cable access TV can testify to.
Since I've witnessed freedom in all its excess I have never been the same again.
Freedom forces me to make such daunting choices: there so many different religions to chose from -- so many banks, so many kinds of checking accounts so many ways to finance an automobile, so manay options on one Ford Taurus
... So many roads to take, and then, so many gas stations along each of those roads, all with regular, unleaded, super unleaded -- not to mention varieties of chips on display. which one to choosethe choice will transform a portion of myself and consequently the whole world. So which will it be? Paper or plastic?
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'.
We sat on the sofa and cast our vote with our remote: And we became the Republic of Infotania in the Virtual States of American....
Red and white blood shot eyes fixed as A blue light flickers illuminating the darkness... revealing a huge, glorious beast that is everywhere-- but exists nowhere....
Millions of years of evolutionary change... We rose from the oceans' floors -- We prodigal lung-fish should now return to the waters edge, gloating: "We are triumphant-- we rule the world-- and we bring you Pringles!"
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
While we still swim in a vast life less ocean of bad news, shocking tales, and graphic re-enactment....
What do we tell the children?
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
What do we tell our mangled hearts?
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
What do we tell the disappointed innocents turned devout cynics?
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'.
Tell them: They will never be the same again.
Only the extinct do not change.
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'
So Fish and Fetus, Suckling infant and Sulking Cynic: We may never be the same again, but this is meant to sound optimistic for this means:
We are not stuck this way.
We can Change.
We will Change.
And we will never be the same again.
Chandler, Rockstroh/Bob Dylan
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'
Things have never been the same.
Things have never been the same.
Things have never been the same
since the big bang....
since the first cosmic gasses cooled into liquid and vast lifeless oceans began to seethe with DNA and the seas began to swim with life-- and some of that life didn't like it in the ocean where its parent's lived and thus hauled itself onto the land.... This event caused all the conservative fish to cry out in alarm at the intrepid lung fish: "Don't you go and do it. Fish should stay at home! We live in water. We swim-- We don't walk. We'll lose our very fishness if we were ever caught walking."
Alliances were formed to stop this sort of thing. Slogans were shaped to fit their purpose: "Things will never been the same!" "What ever happened to traditional values?" The Coalition of Concerned Gill-Breathers cried out. While their Paranoid prophet - a shell fish by the name of Nostradomus - predicted a dark future of death camps called Red Lobster-- and an evil tyrant named Long John Silver.
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Things will never be the same.
Right now-- at this very instant-- a sperm cell is fusing with an ovulating egg-- and neither are ever going to be the same again....
Do they have second thoughts?
Perhaps they are nostalgic for their carefree single days?
Was their intimacy achieved too quickly?
Perhaps causing dysfunctional moments to arise? "Look I told you that you could move into my womb-- but you moved in and got your DNA all mixed up with mine! Now, I don't know where you start and I begin. This is causing me some real problems with my personal boundary issues!"
And that fetus grows into a breathing infant-- and is soon pulled from its mother's breast and weaned-- And mother and child will never the same again....
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'.
And let not ever talk about puberty (which some claim is a stage of life-- but I posit it is more of an affliction)...
For Puberiy leads us to freedom
...Oh freedom, now there is a development that can be even more bewildering than puberty-- and every bit as ugly to witness: And freedom can be really ugly: A fact that anyone who has ever watched cable access TV can testify to.
Since I've witnessed freedom in all its excess I have never been the same again.
Freedom forces me to make such daunting choices: there so many different religions to chose from -- so many banks, so many kinds of checking accounts so many ways to finance an automobile, so manay options on one Ford Taurus
... So many roads to take, and then, so many gas stations along each of those roads, all with regular, unleaded, super unleaded -- not to mention varieties of chips on display. which one to choosethe choice will transform a portion of myself and consequently the whole world. So which will it be? Paper or plastic?
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'.
- . .Alright... Let's cut the high-flown crap: WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE CHOSEN--and we will never be the same again....
We sat on the sofa and cast our vote with our remote: And we became the Republic of Infotania in the Virtual States of American....
Red and white blood shot eyes fixed as A blue light flickers illuminating the darkness... revealing a huge, glorious beast that is everywhere-- but exists nowhere....
- . . it has ten thousand mouths that speak at once and it chatters on and on about power and sex and god-- and, most importantly, delicious salty snacks....
- . . it provides us not with power nor sex-- nor rouses god from his senile sleep-- but the salty snacks are available just about everywhere.
Millions of years of evolutionary change... We rose from the oceans' floors -- We prodigal lung-fish should now return to the waters edge, gloating: "We are triumphant-- we rule the world-- and we bring you Pringles!"
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
While we still swim in a vast life less ocean of bad news, shocking tales, and graphic re-enactment....
What do we tell the children?
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
What do we tell our mangled hearts?
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
What do we tell the disappointed innocents turned devout cynics?
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'.
Tell them: They will never be the same again.
Only the extinct do not change.
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'
So Fish and Fetus, Suckling infant and Sulking Cynic: We may never be the same again, but this is meant to sound optimistic for this means:
We are not stuck this way.
We can Change.
We will Change.
And we will never be the same again.