The music is similar to that of the single's b-side "We Can Be Together" and was based on a bluegrass riff that David Crosby had shown Kantner.

[2] Toronto Daily Star critic Jack Batten used the following lyrics as an example of how many then-current pop songs "constitute documents as inflammatory and subversive as any anarchist's blueprint for civil war", except that there is nothing hidden.

They're spending all their time being paranoid when they could be out on the West Coast enjoying themselves, getting high, meeting lotsa people and ignoring it all.

"[7] Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald said " It's a heavy rocker, and one of the Airplane's finest – and easily most underrated – singles.

[1] Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci rated it Jefferson Airplane's 3rd best song, calling it one of the band's "most aggressive tracks and a rousing anthem for the more revolutionary arm of Woodstock nation.