Throughout the song, language such as “Picket lines and picket signs/Don’t punish me with brutality”, “Father, father, everybody thinks we’re wrong/Oh, but who are they to judge us/Simply because our hair is long”, “There’s far too many of you dying/You know we’ve got to find a way” stand out, sending a message that is centered very much at home in America. Instead it exudes an air of confusion confusion about why the Vietnam War is being waged at all, and confusion about why there is such open hostility between war protestors and those who attempt to subdue them. The message it sends is not overtly critical of war, nor does it display any amount of contempt for those that wage violence in war. The song “What’s Going On?” by Marvin Gaye is unique among the diverse field of anti-war songs.
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