[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:04.68]Lives In the Balance [00:09.96]Jackson Browne [00:14.42]I've been waiting for something to happen [00:17.66]For a week or a month or a year [00:19.49]With the blood in the ink of the headlines [00:24.79]And the sound of the crowd in my ear [00:28.11]You might ask what it takes to remember [00:31.51]When you know that you've seen it before [00:35.17]Where a government lies to a people [00:38.17]And a country is drifting to war [00:42.25]And there's a shadow on the faces [00:45.51]Of the men who send the guns [00:49.10]To the wars that are fought in places [00:52.81]Where their business interest runs [00:56.16]On the radio talk shows and the T.V. [00:59.53]You hear one thing again and again [01:03.17]How the U.S.A. stands for freedom [01:06.63]And we come to the aid of a friend [01:09.66]But who are the ones that we call our friends-- [01:13.70]These governments killing their own? [01:17.22]Or the people who finally can't take any more [01:20.68]And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone [01:24.07]There are lives in the balance [01:26.95]There are people under fire [01:29.74]There are children at the cannons [01:34.89]And there is blood on the wire [02:16.96]There's a shadow on the faces [02:19.98]Of the men who fan the flames [02:23.58]Of the wars that are fought in places [02:27.02]Where we can't even say the names [02:30.81]They sell us the President the same way [02:34.36]They sell us our clothes and our cars [02:37.80]They sell us every thing from youth to religion [02:41.31]The same time they sell us our wars [02:44.43]I want to know who the men in the shadows are [02:47.81]I want to hear somebody asking them why [02:51.35]They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are [02:54.92]But they're never the ones to fight or to die [02:58.34]And there are lives in the balance [03:01.16]There are people under fire [03:04.41]There are children at the cannons [03:08.90]And there is