Barry McGuire

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

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

“You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.”

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

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

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