For What It's Worth

In response to For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Spring

For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield is a song written in 1966 in the middle of the Vietnam War. Buffalo Spring represents the feelings of youth culture in America at the time. He says “There's a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware” representing the people’s confusion. During the Vietnam War, people did not understand why America entered the war and this line helps represent that. Officials were telling people to be aware but the youth and citizens of America did not want to be involved with this.

Buffalo Springfield goes on to say “There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong,  Young people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind.” Despite the fact that this song was not actually a war song, it helps represent the feelings well. The Vietnam War had a strong youth anti-war movement that went along with it and lines in it represent what they thought. These lyrics can help represent what the youth thought about the war, especially the line “Nobody’s right if everyone’s wrong.” People believed America had no right going into this war, which is why this line works well to describe it.

Even though the song For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield is not exactly an anti-war song, it still represents the thoughts of people and how they reacted to the war.