Jackson Browne

This topic was created in the Music forum by Qbone on Friday, February 24, 2006 and has 2 replies.

You know? —.some of these artists and song writers are a real VISIONARY, this song belongs to ?Miami vice? back in late 80?s?.. and?. 20 years later.. the point is still valid especially in this period of time?.

Damn politicians?!

One more thing, the original is too 80?. Try to listen to more recent version of it (solo acoustic VOL.1) its mush deeper and better.

Lives In The Balance

By: Jackson Browne

I've been waiting for somethin' 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 her people
And a country is drifting 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 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
...

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us everything 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

Great music? great lyric.. great meaning?!