This song is by Jackson Browne from 1986 called Lives In The Balance-when we into the Co JACKSON BROWNE lyrics - "Lives In The Balance" www.OldieLyrics.com 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 Where a government lies to a people And a country is drifting to war And 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 interest runs 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 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 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 JACKSON BROWNE - "Lives In The Balance" lyrics See more JACKSON BROWNE lyrics www.OldieLyrics.com [img]http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N...=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=728x90;ord=780932130?[/img]ntra thing-sounds like todays paper-
How utterly wonderful-- I guess one had to hear it. Me, I'll listen to Hank and Toby and Gretchen and Junior Brown. They ain't no left-wing traitors.
Yea I suppose 70% of Americans and about 90% of the rest of the world are are traitors too-Bush has a 30% approval rating right now-Could that many be traitors?-no and there is a large majority of Republicans also condeming this war-This is about oil-and we are losing good people over it and we were all lied to from the very beginning about the reason to invade Iraq-Only blind sheep would continue to follow people that are lying to them-wake up-
