《Lives In The Balance》歌词

[00:00:44] I've been waiting for something to happen

[00:00:48] For a week or a month or a year

[00:00:51] With the blood in the ink of the headlines

[00:00:55] And the sound of the crowd in my ear

[00:00:59] You might ask what it takes to remember

[00:01:03] When you know that you've seen it before

[00:01:07] Where a government lies to a people

[00:01:10] And a country is drifting to war

[00:01:14] And there's a shadow on the faces

[00:01:18] Of the men who send the guns

[00:01:22] To the wars that are fought in places

[00:01:26] Where their business interest runs

[00:01:30] On the radio talk shows and the t v

[00:01:33] You hear one thing again and again

[00:01:37] How the USA stands for freedom

[00:01:41] And we come to the aid of a friend

[00:01:45] But who are the ones that we call our friends

[00:01:49] These governments killing their own

[00:01:53] Or the people who finally can't take any more

[00:01:56] And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

[00:02:00] There are lives in the balance

[00:02:04] There are people under fire

[00:02:08] There are children at the cannons

[00:02:12] And there is blood on the wire

[00:02:19] There's a shadow on the faces

[00:02:45] Of the men who fan the flames

[00:02:57] Of the wars that are fought in places

[00:03:28] Where we can't even say the names

[00:03:31] They sell us the president the same way

[00:03:38] They sell us our clothes and our cars

[00:04:05] They sell us every thing from youth to religion

[00:04:09] The same time they sell us our wars

[00:04:13] I want to know who the men in the shadows are

[00:04:17] I want to hear somebody asking them why

[00:04:21] They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are

[00:04:25] But they're never the ones to fight or to die

[00:04:29] And there are lives in the balance

[00:04:32] There are people under fire

[00:04:36] There are children at the cannons

[00:04:44] And there is blood on the wire