[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:13.82]I've been waiting for something to happen [00:17.23]For a week or a month or a year [00:20.66]With the blood in the ink of the headlines [00:24.04]And the sound of the crowd in my ear [00:27.47]You might ask what it takes to remember [00:30.79]When you know that you've seen it before [00:34.39]Where a government lies to a people [00:37.82]And a country is drifting to war [00:41.29]And there's a shadow on the faces [00:44.68]Of the men who send the guns [00:48.11]To the wars that are fought in places [00:51.55]Where their business interest runs [00:55.00]On the radio talk shows and the t v [00:58.35]You hear one thing again and again [01:01.77]How the u s a  stands for freedom [01:05.31]And we come to the aid of a friend [01:09.05]But who are the ones that we call our friends [01:12.23]These governments killing their own [01:15.56]Or the people who finally can't take any more [01:19.05]And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone [01:22.56]There are lives in the balance [01:26.46]There are people under fire [01:29.83]There are children at the cannons [01:32.66]And there is blood on the wire [02:14.05]There's a shadow on the faces [02:17.23]Of the men who fan the flames [02:20.64]Of the wars that are fought in places [02:24.10]Where we can't even say the names [02:27.85]They sell us the president the same way [02:31.40]They sell us our clothes and our cars [02:34.37]They sell us every thing from youth to religion [02:38.14]The same time they sell us our wars [02:41.26]I want to know who the men in the shadows are [02:44.66]I want to hear somebody asking them why [02:48.05]They can be counted on to [02:49.84]Tell us who our enemies are [02:51.51]But they're never the ones to fight or to die [02:55.05]And there are lives in the balance [02:59.03]There are people under fire [03:01.17]There are children at the cannons [03:05.18]And there is blood on the wire