歌曲 | Lives in the Balance |
歌手 | Richie Havens |
专辑 | Nobody Left to Crown |
下载 | Image LRC TXT |
作曲 : Browne | |
Ive 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 youve seen it before | |
Where a government lies to a people | |
And a country is drifting to war | |
And theres 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 USA 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 theyre 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 |
zuo qu : Browne | |
Ive 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 youve seen it before | |
Where a government lies to a people | |
And a country is drifting to war | |
And theres 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 USA 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 theyre 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 |
zuò qǔ : Browne | |
Ive 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 youve seen it before | |
Where a government lies to a people | |
And a country is drifting to war | |
And theres 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 USA 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 theyre 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 |