Lives in the Balance (A song for Egypt)

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PULSE media has the pertinent lyrics and Jackson Browne's original:
http://pulsemedia.org/2011/02/01/lives-in-the-balance-a-song-for-egypt/

from Pulse:

Jackson Browne is a prophet, but its Richie Havens who really captures the intensity of the subject. This one is for Egypt:

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 can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire