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	Em	D	Em	D
Ive been	waiting for	something to	happen

	Em	D	Em	D
For a	week or a mo	nth or a year

	Em	D	Em	D
With the	blood in the i	nk of the hea	dlines

	Em	D	Em	D
And the s	ound of the	crowd in my e	ar

	Em	D	Em	D
You might	ask what it	takes to reme	mber

	Em	D	Em	D
When you	know that you've	seen it befor	e

	Em	D	Em	D
Where a	government l	ies to a pe	ople

	Em	D	Em
And a	country is d	rifting to wa	r

Pre-chorus:

	C	Em
And theres a	shadow on the	faces

	C	Em
Of the	men who send the	guns

	C	G
To the	wars that are fought in	places

	D	B
Where their	business interest	runs

Verse 2 (same arrangement as Verse 1):

On the radio talk 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 call our friends--

These governments killing their own?

Or the people who finally cant take any more

Chorus:

	C	B
And they	pick up a gun or a brick	or a stone

	Em	D	Em	D
There are	lives i	n the balance

	Em	D	Em	D
There are	people	under fire

	Em	D	Em	D
There are	children	at the cannon	s

	C	B
And there is	blood on the wire

Interlude

Pre-chorus:

	C	Em
Theres a	shadow on the	faces

	C	Em
Of the	men who fan the	flames

	C	G
Of the	wars that are fought in pl	aces

	D	B
Where we cant	even say the	names

Verse 3:

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

Chorus:

	C	B
But t	heyre never the one	s to fight or to die

	Em	D	Em	D
And there are	lives i	n the balance

	Em	D	Em	D
There are	people	under fire

	Em	D	Em	D
There are c	hildren	at the cannons

	C	B
And there is	blood on the wire

Outro:

Em, D x3, end with Em.

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luckyguy (report comment to admin):

It appears Jackson capos at the 3rd fret for this song.

luckyguy (report comment to admin):

and other times he capos at the first fret?

pete909 (report comment to admin):

Try C instead of the Em at the start of every 4th line of the verse.

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Lives In The Balance

Jackson Browne

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