On the Eve of Destruction
Yes, We Still Persist
For some reason this song keeps playing over and over in my head.
Can civilization be saved?
What will it take?
What is your “Ear Worm?”
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I played in a rock band in the 60’s. This is a song we played at frequent performances. What goes around, comes around!
Eve of Destruction
Barry McGuire
The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're 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 trying to say?
Can't you feel the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave
Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy
But you tell me over and 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 sittin' here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of Senators don'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
Ah, 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 to Selma, Alabama
Ah, you may leave here for four days in space
But when you return, it's the same old place
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 you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend
You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
i’m pretty convinced and I do not exclude myself from this group that just about everyone is emotionally ill at this point in time. And yet I see very few resources to help the population of this country in a very real way so are we on the eve of destruction? I don’t think we’ve ever really been off the eve of destruction. I think there were very few folks truly healthy and sound and aware of their own inner pain buried your after year day after day decade after decade in act outs of one sort or another This is probably less true of small populations of indigenous people hiding in forests so they don’t have to deal with the lunacy that the outside world parading as civilization will bring to them. Physician heal self.