| Song | Lives in the Balance |
| Artist | Richie Havens |
| Album | Nobody Left to Crown |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 作曲 : Browne | |
| Ive 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 youve seen it before | |
| Where a government lies to a people | |
| And a country is drifting to war | |
| And theres 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 USA 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 theyre 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 |
| zuo qu : Browne | |
| Ive 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 youve seen it before | |
| Where a government lies to a people | |
| And a country is drifting to war | |
| And theres 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 USA 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 theyre 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 |
| zuò qǔ : Browne | |
| Ive 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 youve seen it before | |
| Where a government lies to a people | |
| And a country is drifting to war | |
| And theres 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 USA 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 theyre 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 |