so this just started playing in my head

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[flor-de-jasmim]

1. In all these years I don't think I have ever really paid attn to the words.

Thanks for posting.

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2. i think it was 1967.

i remember the words going through my head while playing tether ball during recess. I'm 64 years old now.

[StClone]

3. Sounds for yesterday and maybe today

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
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Stephen Stills

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6. it's that first line

that keeps playing in my head. there's something happening here.

and though the nomenclature has changed (the heat, the man - back when i was a hippie we called them pigs. always), the story is precisely the same.

[lastlib]

4. I know the feeling!

(I posted this a couple days ago! Something's still happening here! But I think it's becoming a little clearer!)

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5. do you know i did a search

but if anyone searches for it using the title they won't find my post either.

it's like 53 years old and could be written today.

[TomSlick]

7. I've been hearing this song in my head for days now.

[cp]

8. Thank you

Been in my mind too.