Lives In The Balance Chords by Jackson Browne

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_ [Gm] _ _ I've been waiting for something to happen For [Cm] a week or a month or a [Gm] year
With the blood and the ink of the headline And [Cm] the sound of the crowd in [Gm] my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember _ When you [Cm] know that you've seen it [Gm] before
_ Where a government lies to a people _ [Cm] And a country is drifting [Gm] to war
_ [Eb] There's a _ shadow [Gm] on the faces [Eb] Of the men who [Gm] send the guns
_ [Eb] To the wars that are fought in [Bb] places _ [F] Where their business _ [D] interests run
_ [Gm] On the radio, talk shows and the TV You [Eb] hear one thing again and [Gm] again
_ How the USA stands for free _ [Cm] And we've come to the [Gm] aid of a friend
_ But who are the ones that we call our friends?
[Cm] These governments killing [Gm] 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 are [F] lives in the [Gm] balance [F] There are [Gm] _ [F] children with [Gm] fire
[F] There are [Gm] children as it can _ And [Eb] there is blood on the wire
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_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] a _ shadow [Gm] on the faces _ [Eb] Of the men who [Gm] fan the flame
Of [Eb] the wars that are fought [Bb] in places Where [F] we can't even say [D] their _ names
[Gm] They sell us the president the same way [Eb] They sell us our clothes and [Gm] our cars
_ They sell us everything from youth to religion [Cm] At the same time [Eb] they sell us [Gm] our war
I want to know who the men in the shadows are I [Cm] want to hear [Eb] somebody asking [Gm] them why
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 And [Gm] there are lives in the balance
There are _ people on fire There are [F] children at their [Gm] cannons
_ [Eb] And there is blood on the wire
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