Barry McGuire

“The eastern world, it is explodin', violence flarin', bullets loadin'.”

“You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'.”

“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.”

“And you tell me over and over and over again my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.”

“Don't you understand what I'm trying to say, and can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?”

“My blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin', I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin'.”

“If the button is pushed, there's no running away.”

“There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave.”

“This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'.”

“The song was a mirror of the society that we were living in.”

“I wasn't trying to be a protest singer. I was just singing the news.”

“Marches alone can't bring integration, when human respect is disintegratin'.”

“Jesus is the only answer. I don't see any other hope for the world.”

“When I found Jesus, I found everything I had been looking for.”