《Lives In The Balance》歌词

歌曲： Lives In The Balance

所属专辑：Nobody Left To Crown

歌手： Richie Havens

时长： 05:22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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