Lives In The Balance-Judie Tzuke

[ti:Lives in the Balance] [ar:Judie Tzuke] [al:Songs for Heroes] [offset:0] [00:00.92]Judie Tzuke -Lives In the Balance [00:14.07]I've been waiting for something to happen [00:17.48]For a week or a month or a year [00:20.91]With the blood in the ink of the headlines [00:24.29]And the sound of the crowd in my ear [00:27.72]You might ask what it takes to remember [00:31.04]When you know that you've seen it before [00:34.64]Where a government lies to a people [00:37.49] [00:38.07]And a country is drifting to war [00:41.03] [00:41.54]And there's a shadow on the faces [00:44.93]Of the men who send the guns [00:47.83] [00:48.36]To the wars that are fought in places [00:51.80]Where their business interest runs [00:55.25]On the radio talk shows and the t.v. [00:58.60]You hear one thing again and again [01:01.24] [01:02.02]How the u.s.a. stands for freedom [01:05.56]And we come to the aid of a friend [01:08.50] [01:09.30]But who are the ones that we call our friends [01:12.48]These governments killing their own [01:15.27] [01:15.81]Or the people who finally can't take any more [01:19.30]And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone [01:22.81]There are lives in the balance [01:24.73] [01:26.71]There are people under fire [01:28.95] [01:30.08]There are children at the cannons [01:32.40] [01:32.91]And there is blood on the wire [01:35.13] [02:14.31]There's a shadow on the faces [02:17.49]Of the men who fan the flames [02:20.90]Of the wars that are fought in places [02:24.36]Where we can't even say the names [02:27.38] [02:28.11]They sell us the president the same way [02:31.66]They sell us our clothes and our cars [02:34.63]They sell us every thing from youth to religion [02:38.40]The same time they sell us our wars [02:41.52]I want to know who the men in the shadows are [02:44.92]I want to hear somebody asking them why [02:48.31]They can be counted on to [02:50.10]Tell us who our enemies are [02:51.77]But they're never the ones to fight or to die [02:55.31]And there are lives in the balance [02:57.01] [02:59.29]There are people under fire [03:01.43]There are children at the cannons [03:03.81] [03:05.44]And there is blood on the wire [03:08.44]