Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire

The Eastern world it is explodin’, violence flarin’, bullets loadin’
Your old enough to kill but not for votin’
You don’t believe in war but what’s that gun you’re totin’?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin’
But you tell me, over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction.

Don’t you understand what I’m tryin’ to say?
Can’t you feel the fears I’m feeling today?
If the button is pushed there’s no running away,
There’ll will be no one to save with the world in a grave.
Take a look around you boy, it’s bound to scare you boy.
And you tell me over and over again my friend,
ah you don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction.

Yeah my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’
I’m sitting here just contemplatin’
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
and a hand full of Senators can’t pass legislation
And marches alone can’t bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin’.
This whole CRAZY WORLD is just too frustratin’
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend
How you don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction

Think of all the hate there is in Red China.
Then take a look around at Selma, Alabama.

The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead but don’t leave a trace
Hate your next-door-neighbor, but don’t forget to say Grace.
And tell me over and over and over and over again my friend
You don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction