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Related: About this forumJackson Browne with David Crosby, Graham Nash & David Lindley
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
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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
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Jackson Browne with David Crosby, Graham Nash & David Lindley (Original Post)
Ptah
May 2013
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Always true. Saw him perform that in Santa Cruz over 20 years ago. Possibly the greatest song
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2013
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olddots
(10,237 posts)1. i could watch that 400 or 500 more times.
thanks
Granny M
(1,395 posts)2. I love that song.
When I think that it was written in the mid eighties I feel sad that we are worse off now, and every word of the song is even more true today.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)9. Ditto!
Love the song, and hear what you're saying!
BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)3. Ah yes, God bless these artists.
Back when music meant something to me.
Makes me feel young again.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)4. Always true. Saw him perform that in Santa Cruz over 20 years ago. Possibly the greatest song
Saw him perform that in Santa Cruz over 20 years ago at a piano. It is possibly the greatest song he ever made, and he has made many great songs.
"Lives in the Balance" is always true and will probably be true for a few more generations.
Having served in Viet Nam I have seen this. Kill and rape.
midnight
(26,624 posts)8. Welcome....So did my Uncle..
drynberg
(1,648 posts)7. MAY THIS FINE SONG BE BUT ONE
Battle Cry in the Streets, as we struggle for freedom from the true Evil Doers.