For What It's Worth-- by Buffalo Springfield (A Republican Controlled USA)

[BamaLefty]

For What It's Worth (and I feel like here it won't be worth much to very many...and that's ok)
by Buffalo Springfield

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

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And I'm out. But before I go I wonder..if we were all Republican, what would this nation be like? I feel like this song really captures what is happening/could happen to my country and it saddens me.

Thoughts?

[getmeouttahere]

1. I've always loved that song!

they don't write 'em like that anymore!

[BamaLefty]

7. No They Don't

I'm 17, but today's music really sucks IMO. Give me the Beatles and the Doors and the Cars---- to the near present. Not much past 2000.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

2. This songs has been going thru my head lately, too n/t

[whistle]

3. If we were all republican, half of the nation would live elsewhere...

[Johonny]

4. It's kinda sad

that the generation that wrote that song are now the ones in charge. What ever happen to the baby boomers?

[getmeouttahere]

6. So you're saying the whole generation is responsible???

the same people who lead us out of the darkness of the repressive 50's, through the civil rights movement, equal rights, etc. This mess we're in is the work of a few neocons who have it in for the rest of their generation for moving the country forward.

[BamaLefty]

8. I Don't Really Know If You Can "Blame"

a certain generation. Today, 18-29 year olds are overwhelmingly Democratic. Does that mean that they will be in 20 years? I don't know... will they still be liberal when they are 60? I sure as hell will.

We just have to keep fighting the good fight and hope for the best. Election reform wouldn't hurt either.

[Johonny]

13. hmm

The 60's were a product of the generation of the baby boomer parents. The children of the 60s clearly voted for the Neocons and have basically voted money first since the 1980s. Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II that's the legacy of the baby boomers. Which is so sad compared to the ideals of the late 1960's rock music.

[Beam Me Up]

15. Uh...

We WAY underestimated the oposition. I kid you not.

[bryant69]

5. It's a great track

I also think of the version he did of it on 4 Way Street (with Crosby Stills Nash and Young) which had a very hopeful feel to it.

Bryant
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[catnhatnh]

9. I don't believe that was covered on the original...

...Four Way Street-which DID however carry both Ohio (4 dead in Ohio) and Chicago (change the world) the second of which is drastically lacking in the recognition it deserves...

[bryant69]

14. It was - it was as part of a medly

49 Bye Bye's and Americas Children I think it would call - but all the lyrics of For What it's Worth were in there. Ohio's a great track. Chicago has good lyrics but musically i can take or leave it.

Bryant

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. 4 Way Street was a fantastic live album.

Everyone should have that one in their collection.

[BillZBubb]

11. We need a lot more "Young people speaking their minds"!

Unfortunately for us all, far too few younger Americans are very active politically. I'm particularly depressed by the lack of mass opposition to the Iraq invasion and occupation.

[BamaLefty]

12. Well, I Speak My Mind

But I do know what you're talking about. Yes, it is very sad to see a group of people sit on their ass while their county is being destroyed piece by piece. I see it every day.