The Balance Lyrics

Intro:
Mr. Mix Mr. DJ play that beat
Won't you play it for me. In the mix mister hop
Forward hop back. Hop, hop hop


[Verse 1]
The second somebody dies somebody else is born
People are celebrating while other people mourn
Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign
Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns
One man's enemy is another man's friend
One man's poisons is another man's medicine
So let us stand, let us sit and let us view
The changing of the guard oh it's so hard to keep it true
It's the balance of the scales it can't be challenged or expelled
Soon as somebody lost somebody else prevails
Some someone is quiet at the same time someone yells
Half full or half empty water in the well
It's the Half and Half Hypothesis the 50/50 theory
Eerie as it may seem check your balance beam
It's the Half and Half Hypothesis the 50/50 theory
Eerie as it may seem check your balance beam

Now check your Balance Beamer with a feather and a rock
Whether or not you find the answer is really not the plot

See it's like love and hate (love...and hate)
The same emotion, different weight
People love to hate, so I know you know, just how this all relates
It's the posa- and the nega-tive
, mini and mega live
Arm, a leg, a leg, an arm, headed by a nigga
Like big and small, short and tall
Night and day and so on, some people are bashful
Some people just love to get their flow on (they flow on)
So here goes one to grow on
I'm a go on and on and on, till the principles are laid out
The scales of justice weighed out, 'til your memory starts to fade out
And your game of life is played out, got to balance out the power, don't we?

Balance your emotions, push and pull positions
Like the moon pulls on the ocean, balance on one foot, that's equilibrium
Opposites attract and retract, that's a fact (I'm a Libra y'all!)
180 degrees, but not that hot
So whether or not you find the answer, is really not the plot (really not the plot)
Because, giving is receiving (and) and seeing is believing (and)
And the solar system, rotates so harmonious and even
It's perfectly balanced
[Verse 2]
Some people say life is about taking chances, choices and decisions
Voices and opinions, politics and religion
Clues to the past and cash and keys to the future
It's a possibility and probability, on who's gonna execute yo ass
Some slow and analytical, some quick fast on the dash
Like heads or tails, but the head usually leads the tail
So I tell my tales from the head, cause they're embedded inside my cells

Real quick, let me tell you about a fact, I know things will even out
You can disbelieve or doubt, or even shout, or leave it in your mouth
Cause, how you gone reason with grand, Mother Nature?
Running Mother Earth, controlled by Father Time, who's the chaser?
It's living and dying homey, laughing and crying dude
Trying or lying my brother, walking or flying fool
Now half of you are gone, find the time to shine
The other half? 'Gon' find crime, money, weed, wine

Till it's too late, in a disillusion state of mind
I just found my peace of mind, now they want a piece of mine
Too late in a disillusion of mind
The orthodox is the unorthodox, they just got you on the names
The insane and the sane, are the same

It's a damn shame, so many people's aim is so lame
And their gain is so minimal, caught up in the subliminal

It's pleasure and pain, water for the flames, the wild and the tame
The style still remains, if you use the right side of your brain
Instead of going against the grain, you can penetrate the vein
To the point where what remains is a stain, of this universal thang That we call Balance (balance)..

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“The Balance” is the fourth track on Aceyalone’s 1998 album “A Book of HUman Language. Its verses explore the extremely delicate equilibrium on which the world currently balances: between love and hate and the lifestyles of the "street” and the “decent.” The song contains samples from “Thank You Jesus” by Robin Kenyatta & “Scavenger” by Shelly Manne.

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April 14, 1998
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