We use the song Balance by Seth Avett to discuss the beauty in finding balance.
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Wake up knowing that I gotta give my best today
Can′t expect to rest cause I passed the test yesterday
Glad to feel my chest rising falling
In the early morning crawling outta bed
Gotta lot to be addressed today here we go
Lift my head, toast the bread, roll my shoulders back
Face a world delirious serious, as a heart attack
Watch for sharks and bottom-feeding fish in the sea
Tell my family I love'm unconditionally
Priorities make the means, cash in the coffer
Much more than these companies are willing to offer
Old timers sayin son make hay while the sun shines
And try to get enough to leave a stash for ya bloodlines
Same time, safeguard your honor and integrity
You′re falling face first if you're chasing celebrity
Nah I'm not too concerned with getting validation
But I wanna work hard enough to earn my vacation
Success didn′t change me but I′ll tell ya what did
Coalescence of the past and the present amid
The pain and stress of divorce then falling in love again
Losing loved ones to cancer then having a kid
And knowing nothing could be quite the same ever again
Once you feel that love you straighten up and pick up your chin
Standing in my kitchen in the dark, heart filled with song
Like Etta James singing at last, my love has come along
The very next moment sweating what to do now
Maybe I can't do this, nobody showed me how
But deep down I know that ain′t true, my parents illustrated
How to acclimate and navigate when days are complicated
Once again I pretend to know but have to steal a line
From AA and pray to take it one day at a time
Searching for, hurting for, learning for, working for balance
The blessings never go away but my ability to see them
Tends to lessen through the day like the sunlight in the pm
Shadows from a time when my mind filled with darkness
Fill the valley floor of my life now regardless
Of the evidence of glory I encounter every morning
Laughter in my home and my soul forming into
Melodies I hum then fill my lungs all the way
Dancing in the ring while my fear falls away
I'm on the shoulders of the crowd in the corner yelling out Adrian
While the demons just crawl away on the mat
Beaten down so bad that they never will recover
But they do specialize in new ways to make you suffer
So I keep an eye out for bats in the belfry
Answer madness face to face amazing grace to keep myself free
Keep my outlook healthy stay suspicious of the wealthy
Turn the news off when they tell me: ′Kim took another selfie'
No time to be a sucker, no time to be complacent
No space to place the pity or the sorrow in the basement
If the pain is in my lover′s hazel eyes I gotta face it
If the chance to be a better man escapes I gotta chase it
Looking for searching for working for hurting for learning for
Looking for searching for working for hurting for
