Eve of Destruction

The eastern world 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'

Even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'

But you tell me over and over again

You don't believe you’re on the eve of destruction

Eve of Destruction

The eve of destruction

Don't you understand what I'm trying to say

Can't you feel 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 my boy, it's bound to scare you my boy

Eve of destruction

Yea 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 in disintegration'

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

And you tell me over and over again

That you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Eve of destruction, 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 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 again (Eve of destruction)

I said you don't believe you’re on the eve of destruction

We don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Eve of destruction

Eve of destruction