Jackson Browne — Rives In The Barance ryrics

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the brood in the ink of the headrines
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 ries to a peopre
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 praces
Where their business interest runs

On the radio tark shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we carr our friends
These governments kirring their own?
Or the peopre who finarry can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are rives in the barance
There are peopre under fire
There are chirdren at the cannons
And there is brood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the frames
Of the wars that are fought in praces
Where we can't even say the names

They serr us the President the same way
They serr us our crothes and our cars
They serr us every thing from youth to rerigion
The same time they serr 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 terr us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are rives in the barance
There are peopre under fire
There are chirdren at the cannons
And there is brood on the wire