Lives In The Balance Chords by Jackson Browne

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I've been waiting for something to happen _ [Cm] for a week or a month or a [Gm] year, _ with the
blood in the ink of the headline _ [Cm] and the sound of the crowd in my [Gm] ear.
You might ask what
it takes to remember when [Cm] you know that you've seen it [Gm] before, _ where a government lies to
a people _ [Cm] and a country is drifting to [Gm] 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] interest runs _
[Gm] on the radio, talk shows and the TV.
You [Cm] hear one thing again and [Gm] again, _ how the USA stands
for freedom _ [Cm] and we come to the [Gm] aid of a friend. _
But who are the ones that we call our friend?
[Cm] These governments killing [Gm] their own, _ or the people who finally can't take anymore [Eb] and
they pick up a gun or [D] a brick or a stone.
And [Gm] there are lives in the balance, [F] there
[Gm] are [F] children with [Gm] fire, _ [F] there are [Gm] children and their kids. _
[Eb] We let us blood, we let us
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[Eb] There's a _ shadow [Gm] on the faces _ [Eb] of the _ men who fan the [Gm] flame _ [Eb] of the wars that are
[Bb] fought in places where [F] we can't even [D] say the name.
[Gm] They sell us the president the same
way, [Eb] they sell us our [Gm] clothes and our cars. _
They sell us everything from youth to religion,
[Eb] same time 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
[D] are [Gm] people on the fire, there are children and their kids. _
And [Eb] there is blood on the _ _ _
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[Eb] faces of the men _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] [Gm] who _ _ _ _ _ _ fan _ the flame of the wars that are fought in places [Cm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Cm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ where we _ _
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_ [Gm] _ can't _ _ _ _
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