Lives in the Balance
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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
When a government lies to a people
And a country is driven to war
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 interests run
On the radio, talk show, and TV
You hear one thing again and again
How the powers that be stand for freedom
And they come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends
These governments stealing their own
Or the people who finally can't take anymore
So they pick up a gun, a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children under cannons
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
We can't even say their names
They'll sell us our leaders
The same way they sell us our clothes and our cars
They'll sell us everything from youth to religion
The same way they sell us our wars
I wanna know who the men in the shadows are
I wanna 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
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children under cannons
There is blood on the wire