《Lives in the Balance》歌词

[00:00:01] Lives In The Balance - Jackson Browne

[00:00:07] Ive been waiting for something to happen

[00:00:10] For a week or a month or a year

[00:00:14] With the blood in the ink of the headlines

[00:00:18] And the sound of the crowd in my ear

[00:00:21] You might ask what it takes to remember

[00:00:24] When you know that youve seen it before

[00:00:28] Where a government lies to a people

[00:00:32] And a country is drifting to war

[00:00:35] And theres a shadow on the faces

[00:00:38] Of the men who send the guns

[00:00:42] To the wars that are fought in places

[00:00:45] Where their business interest runs

[00:00:49] On the radio talk shows and the tv

[00:00:52] You hear one thing again and again

[00:00:56] How the usa stands for freedom

[00:00:59] And we come to the aid of a friend

[00:01:03] But who are the ones that we call our friends

[00:01:06] These governments killing their own

[00:01:10] Or the people who finally cant take any more

[00:01:14] And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

[00:01:17] There are lives in the balance

[00:01:20] There are people under fire

[00:01:23] There are children at the cannons

[00:01:28] And there is blood on the wire

[00:01:49] Theres a shadow on the faces

[00:01:53] Of the men who fan the flames

[00:01:56] Of the wars that are fought in places

[00:02:00] Where we cant even say the names

[00:02:03] They sell us the president the same way

[00:02:07] They sell us our clothes and our cars

[00:02:11] They sell us every thing from youth to religion

[00:02:14] The same time they sell us our wars

[00:02:17] I want to know who the men in the shadows are

[00:02:20] I want to hear somebody asking them why

[00:02:24] They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are

[00:02:27] But theyre never the ones to fight or to die

[00:02:31] And there are lives in the balance

[00:02:33] There are people under fire

[00:02:37] There are children at the cannons

[00:02:42] And there is blood on the wire