Well, the whole wide world, it is exploding The violence a-flaring and the bullets a-loading If there ever was a time, you better start voting You don't believe in war, but what is that gun you're toting? And even the Rio Grande has a-bodies a-floating But you tell me over and over and over again, my friend How you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction Don't you understand what I'm trying to say? Can't you feel the fears that I'm feeling today? You send your kids to school, and you feel that they're safe Then you get the call that the shooter went mad in the place Take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy And then you tell me over and over and over again, my friend How you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction Yeah, my blood's so mad, it feels like coagulating I'm just sitting here a-just a-contemplating I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation And none of the senators can pass legislation And marches alone can't stop all the hating When human respect is disintegrating This whole crazy world is just too frustrating And you tell me over and over and over again, my friend How you don't believe that we're on the eve of destruction The virus hit, many isolated and ill The jobs disappearing, tryin' to pay the bills A-hurricanes, floods, tornadoes are storming in Politicians claim that there ain't no global warming Winds are a-blowing and fires are blazing Hills are scorched and no horses are a-grazing If you cross the man his words are escaping And ya tell me over and over and over again, my friend Well, you don't believe that we're on the eve of destruction, whoa And then ya tell me over and over and over again, my friend How you don't believe that we're on the eve of destruction, whoa, yeah And then ya tell me over and over and over again, my friend That it's hard to believe that we're on the eve of destruction We're on the eve of destruction We're on the eve of destruction We're on the eve of destruction