It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The eastern world, it is exploding
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 tryin' to say
Can't you feel the fears I'm feelin' today?
If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away
There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave
[Take a look around ya boy, it's bound to scare ya 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 sitting 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
You may leave here for 4 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… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don't believe
We're on the eve
Of destruction
Mm, no no, you don't believe
We're on the eve
of destruction.
Originally posted by intrepid
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace
Originally posted by intrepid
My point? I think it is that we get bent out of shape on the stupidest things. Things haven't really changed in 45 years(gov't's still giving it to us dry) but we argue about news sources. Political partisanship. THEY are laughing at us people. From their comfortable mansions.
...eve of destruction was the "banner" song that protestors used to get the voting age lowered to 18 - because, back then, at 18 you could be drafted to go to war but you couldnt vote for which scumbag was gonna send you to war...
Originally posted by DINSTAAR
We need to get the drinking age down to 18 too.
Originally posted by DINSTAAR
This time we won't fight for voting rights, but the right of adults to self-medicate their way through the bad times.