Buffalo Springfield

Barry Ritholtz posted this old sixties tune on his blog, The Big Picture, today. I took an immediate walk down Memory Lane.

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 they carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It'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
You better Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
You better Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
You better Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

~ Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth 

A classic country- and folk-rock ballad, it's message is still true today...for us to stop, listen and look at what's going down. Not because of the LAPD beating on hippies in 1966, but because of the economic storm our country and other nations of the world are attempting to weather.

Pay attention to what's goin' down, everyone.