CLÁSSICOS PARA A VIDA ETERNA

EVE OF DESTRUCTION* (1965) BARRY McGUIRE

Sérgio Luiz Gallina

The eastern world it is exploding

Violence flarin', bullets loadin'

You're old enough to kill but not for votin'

You don't believe in war but what's that gun you're totin'

And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'

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But you tell me

Over and over and over again my friend

Ah you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction

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Don't you understand what I'm trying to say?

Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?

If the button is pushed there's no running away

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

Take a look around you boy

It's bound to scare you boy

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And you tell me

Over and over and over again my friend

Ah you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction

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Yeah my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'

I'm sitting here just contemplatin'

I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation

And a handful of senators don't pass legislation

And marches alone can't bring integration

When human respect is disintegratin'

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

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And you tell me

Over and over and over again my friend

Ah you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction

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Ah think of all the hate there is in Red China

Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama

You may leave here for four days in space

But when you return it's the same old place

The pounding of the drums the pride and disgrace

You can bury your dead but don't leave a trace

Hate your next-door neighbor but don't forget to say grace

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And tell me over and over and over and over again my friend

You don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction

Ah, no you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction

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*P F Sloan