《Lives in the Balance》歌词

[00:00:00] Lives In The Balance - Richie Havens

[00:01:19] I've been waiting for something to happen

[00:01:22] For a week or a month or a year

[00:01:26] With the blood in the ink of the headlines

[00:01:29] And the sound of the crowd in my ear

[00:01:33] You might ask what it takes to remember

[00:01:36] When you think that you've heard it before

[00:01:40] How governments lie to their people

[00:01:43] And how nations are driven to war

[00:01:46] There are shadows on the faces

[00:01:50] On the men who fan the flames

[00:01:53] To those wars that are fought in places

[00:01:57] We can't even remember their names

[00:02:01] On the radio talk shows and TV

[00:02:04] You hear one thing again and again

[00:02:07] How the USA stands for freedom

[00:02:11] And how we come to the aid of a friend

[00:02:15] Well who are these ones we call our friends

[00:02:18] These governments killing their own

[00:02:22] Or is it the ones who can't take any more

[00:02:25] So they pick up a brick or a gun or a stone

[00:02:28] There are lives in the balance

[00:02:32] There are people under fire

[00:02:35] There are children at the cannons

[00:02:39] And there is blood on the wire

[00:02:42] There is blood on the wire

[00:02:46] There is blood on the wire

[00:02:50] There is

[00:03:11] There are shadows on the faces

[00:03:14] Of the men who send the guns

[00:03:18] To those wars that are fought in places

[00:03:21] Where their business interest runs

[00:03:25] I wanna know who these men in the shadows are

[00:03:28] I wanna hear somebody asking them why

[00:03:31] They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are

[00:03:35] But they are never around to fight or to die

[00:03:39] There are lives in the balance

[00:03:42] There are people under fire

[00:03:46] There are children at the cannons

[00:03:49] There is blood on the wire

[00:03:53] There is blood on the wire

[00:03:56] There is blood on the wire

[00:04:00] There is