Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
It ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun.
For What It Is Worth
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
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 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
It ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun.
Curious thing about that song. It was written by Stephen Stills about a very small and localized closing of a popular club by local police near Laurel Canyon. He scribbled it down and handed it to his producer and said, “here is a song for what its worth”. His producer took that to be the title,..... and the rest is history.