Chords for Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance

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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Gm] I've been waiting for something to [C] happen [Gm] for a week or a month or a [C] year
[Gm] With the blood and the ink of the [C] headlines [Gm] and the sound [F] of the crowd [Gm] in my ear
[C] _ [Gm] You might ask what it takes to remember [F] _ [Gm] when you know that you've seen it before
[F] _ [Gm] Where a government lies to a people [F] _ [Gm] and a [F] country is [Gm] drifting away
And [Eb] there's a _ shadow [Gm] on the faces _ [Eb] of the _ men who [Gm] stand there
_ [Eb] To the wars that I fought [Bb] in places _ [F] where the business _ [D] interests run
_ [C] [Gm] On the radio, [F] talk [Gm] shows and the [C] TV [Gm] you hear one thing again and [F] again
_ [Gm] How the [F]
USA [Gm] stands for [F] me [Gm] 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 anymore [Eb] and they pick up a gun [D] or a brick or a stone
[Gm] And there [F] are lives in [Gm] the balance
[F] There are [Gm] people under fire
There _ are [F] children [Gm] at the cannons
[Dm] _ [Eb] And there is blood on the wire
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] There's a _ shadow [Gm] on the faces [Eb] of the men who [Gm] stand with me
[Eb] Of the wars that I [Bb] fought in places [F] we can't even say [D] the name
_ [G] They sell us the president [C] the same [Gm] way they sell us our clothes and our cars
_ They sell us everything from youth to religion
At the [C] same time they [Gm] sell us our [C] wars
I [Gm] want to know who the men in the shadows [C] are
I [Gm] want to hear somebody asking them [F] why
[Gm] They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
[Eb] But they're never the ones [D] to fight or to die
[Gm] And there are lives in the balance
[Dm] There are people [D] under [Gm] fire
[Dm] There [Gm] are children at the cannons
[Dm] There [Eb] is blood on the wire
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_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] There are [F] lives in [C] the [Gm] balance _ _ _ _
People under fire _ _ _ _
Children at the cannons _ [Bb] _ _ [G] There [F] are
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