Browne Jackson Lives In The Balance Lyrics

Lives In The Balance Lyrics

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a
year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the
crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know
that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a
country is drifting to war
And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men
who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their
business interest runs
On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one
thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to
the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends
These
governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take
anymore
So they pick up a gun, or a brick, or a stone
And there are lives
in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the
cannons
And there is blood on the wire
There's a shadow on the
faces
Of the men who fan the flame
Of the wars that are fought in
places
We can't even say the name
They sell us the President the same
way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us everything from
youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who
the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They
can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones
to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people
under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the
wire