For What It's Worth Lyrics - Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield - 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