Lives In The Balance.

Sayanim · **Joined:** Nov 27th, 2006 **Posts:** 253

Jackson Browne (a very gifted song writer) wrote some of the very deep, insightful and introspective songs out there.

Lives In The Balance is one of them. If you take the time to read the lyrics you will realize that it is right on the target.

There is a very well made youtube video of it here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fNW6CaWts

It is said that Jackson Browne was a supporter of Ralph Nader.

Quote:

Lives In The Balance.

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs.

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend.
But who are the ones that we call our friends
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone.

There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die.

And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire.

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