Nathan Payne - The Times They Are A-Changin'

From the album "Behind The Freedom Curtain" ©2010 Nathan Payne. Recorded live at DiPiazza's in Long Beach, California in 2005.

"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'"
The Times They Are A-Changin'

"These lines are usually read as Biblical references, as in the meek will inherit the Earth.  But that hasn't happened, has it? No, because that was never the plan.  That isn't what these lyrics mean.  No one ever gave a damn about the meek." Miles Mathis

It should be noted that I am not a Dylan fan, and believe him to be a manufactured one-man boy band. This article is essential reading for anyone who believes Dylan is legit:
http://mileswmathis.com/dylan.pdf

Also, even though this is a great song, I think it has aged terribly, in terms of its message and meaning. Clearly, a culture of arrogant, ignorant children educating their parents about how to do things doesn't work. We've reached the end game of this obsolete delusion, and clearly, it isn't pretty.

For this reason, I have refrained from posting this song for years. But for archival purposes, I'm posting it now. "Behind The Freedom Curtain" was an EP of some (or all) of my "political" songs that was only available on CD at Brave New Books in Austin, Texas. I took all surviving copies off the shelf when I left Austin in 2011. To my unequivocal disappointment, all of them had survived. I didn't sell a single copy, it amuses me (now) to report.

This song is also a great busking song, and provided a significant percentage of our survival revenue when my 2nd wife and I lived in our car with our cats in San Francisco in 2008. Because your audience in the subway changes every 90 seconds, you can play the song on a loop until you get tired. This was a highlight of my repertoire. In spite of the abhorrent, obsolete message in some of the verses (though admittedl..