"FOR wHAT IT'S WORTH"- bUFFALO sPRINGFIELD
lYRICS
There's
something happening here
But 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
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 saying, "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
Step out of line, the men come
and take you away
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody
look - what's going down?
We better stop
Hey, what's that
sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?
We better stop
Now,
what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?
We better
stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going
down?
aNALYSIS
"We better stop Now, what's that sound? Everybody look - whats going down?" this quote comes from "For what its Worth", a popular single released by Buffolo Springfield in January 1967, this song quickly was known as a "protest song" symbolizing confrontational feelings arising from events during the Vietnam War. Many lyrics from this song have a strong resembles of event from the war that took place not in Vietnam but in the United States, events like the draft the United States Military had to aid the troops by sending American Citizens to fight in Vietnam. People began protesting the draf and due to the conflict their had been many reports of incidents between American Citezens and law enforcements nationwide. In relation to those events these lyrics present those conflicts, "Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you're always afraid Step out of line, the men come and take you away". Other than the Draft Americans began demanding the governament to bring our troops home,"what a field day for the heat (Hmm, hmm, hmm) A thousand people in the street (Hmm, hmm, hmm) Singing songs and carrying sing (Hmm,hmm, hmm)" in these lyrics it make people think of the many anty-war groups that ocupied parks, schools, and streets protestings the war and demanding to bring home our troops and put a end to the fighting going on across seas.