Richie Havens - Lives In The Balance Lyrics

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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 think that you've heard it before

How governments lie to their people

And now nations are driven to war

There are shadows on the faces

Of the men who fan the flames

To those wars that are fought in places

We can't even pronounce their names

On the radio talk shows and TV

You hear one thing again and again

How the USA stands for freedom

How we come to the aid of a friend

Well who are these ones we call our friends

These governments killing their own?

Or is it the ones who can't take any more?

So they pick up a brick or a gun or a stone

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There are lives in the balance

There are people under fire

There are children at the cannons

There is blood on the wire

There is blood on the wire

There is blood on the wire

There is

Shadows on the faces

Of the men who send the guns

To those wars that are fought in places

Where their business interest runs

I wanna know who these 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 are never around to fight or to die

There are lives in the balance

There are people under fire

There are children at the cannons

There is blood on the wire

There is blood on the wire

There is blood on the wire

There is

Shadows on the faces

Of the men who send the guns

To those wars that are fought in places

Where their business interest runs

I wanna know who these 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 are never around to fight or to die

There are lives in the balance

There are people under fire

There are children at the cannons

There is blood on the wire

There is blood on the wire

There is blood on the wire

There is

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