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, 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 see the fears 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
And 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-neighbour, 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
No no you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Hard to believe more than 50 years after this song was released we are still facing the same problems in the World. This could have been written today. Sad!
Me listening self isolating in the UK...take care everybody we will all get through this ...maybe we will understand how far the human race has fallen and do something about it...but I won’t hold my breath
Here's a couple of verses I wrote to bring it up to date . . .
"Fast forward now to, twenty twenty
Computers were invented, and filled our homes a-plenty
The internet was born, and everyone connected
But no-one heard the word, how China got infected
And Facebook didn’t see, the world get disconnected
The leaders of our nations, just wanted it deflected
To protect their jobs, so they could be elected
While economies were wrecked, and workers got ejected
Lost your job boy, it’s for your own good boy
(CHORUS)
Fortunes being made, by those with corporate greed
The world is getting hungry, while a few control the feed
The rich keep getting richer, driven by ambition
Building war machines with loads of ammunition
Climate keeps a changin’ but they have no real solution
And our law and order, needs a revolution
Our energy is fading, but the cost keeps on inflating
Even race relations, are disintegrating
This Coronavirus world, still needs some alteration
So stay in your home, and prey for that injection"
(CHORUS)
5/31/20 - 56 years after this song came out. Riots throughout the United States and the world.. George Floyd killed by a policeman. Pandemic into it's 4th month. Space X just hooked up with the ISS. This song hits on everything that's going on right now.