《Lives in the Balance(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] Lives In The Balance (LP版) - Jackson Browne (杰克逊·布朗)

[00:00:00] Written by：Jackson Bro

[00:00:14] I've been waiting for something to happen

[00:00:17] For a week or a month or a year

[00:00:20] With the blood in the ink of the headlines

[00:00:24] And the sound of the crowd in my ear

[00:00:27] You might ask what it takes to remember

[00:00:31] When you know that you've seen it before

[00:00:34] Where a government lies to a people

[00:00:38] And a country is drifting to war

[00:00:41] And there's a shadow on the faces

[00:00:45] Of the men who send the guns

[00:00:48] To the wars that are fought in places

[00:00:52] Where their business interest runs

[00:00:55] On the radio talk shows and the TV

[00:00:59] You hear one thing again and again

[00:01:02] How the USA stands for freedom

[00:01:06] And we come to the aid of a friend

[00:01:10] But who are the ones that we call our friends

[00:01:13] These governments killing their own

[00:01:16] Or the people who finally can't take any more

[00:01:20] And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

[00:01:23] There are lives in the balance

[00:01:26] There are people under fire

[00:01:29] There are children at the cannons

[00:01:34] And there is blood on the wire

[00:02:16] There's a shadow on the faces

[00:02:19] Of the men who fan the flames

[00:02:23] Of the wars that are fought in places

[00:02:26] Where we can't even say the names

[00:02:30] They sell us the president the same way

[00:02:33] They sell us our clothes and our cars

[00:02:37] They sell us every thing from youth to religion

[00:02:40] The same time they sell us our wars

[00:02:44] I want to know who the men in the shadows are

[00:02:47] I want to hear somebody asking them why

[00:02:50] They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are

[00:02:54] But they're never the ones to fight or to die

[00:02:57] And there are lives in the balance

[00:03:00] There are people under fire

[00:03:04] There are children at the cannons

[00:03:08] And there is blood on the wire