Buffalo Springfield



For What It's Worth 

Stephen Stills, 1966 





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