Lives In The Balance

This is the more updated solo acoustic version that Jackson plays these days. He uses standard open tuning and B7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo3q4-wICCc The main riff is played on the bottom four strings and repeated throughout the verses. Finish on the last Em without the riff vocals held for all four iterations. e|------------| B|------------| G|---0---0--0-| D|--2---2-----| A|-----0------| E|-0-------3--| [Intro] 4x Riff   [Verse] Ive been waiting for something to happen                               For week or month or 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 theres 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 [Verse] 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                                  And they pick up gun or brick or stone [Chorus] There are lives in the balance  (There are) There are people under fire      (There are) There are children at the cannons        And there is blood on the wire    [Interlude] [Pre-chorus] Theres a shadow on the faces Of the men who fan the flames Of the wars that are fought in places Where we cant even say the names [Verse] 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             Em N.C. They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are But they’re never the ones to fight or to die [Chorus] There are lives in the balance  (There are) There are people under fire   (There are) There are children at the cannons        And there is blood on the wire    [Interlude] [Outro] There are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons There are........................................