Life in the Balance (feat. Jam Baxter)

Like a leaf clings to a tree

The world is well balanced like karma is

Do you fight freedom on the front line where the army is?

Or in your mind opening the left part of this?

I feel it in between my bones just like the cartilage

When I'm partin' this world, I won't be sad

The true gift was the blessing of life that I've had

You can think that I'm mad, oh, Leaf's on some hippy shit

It took a lot of changes in me to consider it

Inspired by an old ancient manuscript

The Mayans did predict, but can you handle it?

It's a sign of the times that's hidden in the lines

The description is what the indigenous define

As sure as the sun won't shine and the rain falling

The balance is untold in this life we're all in

On this misty morning, eyes all at one

With the things that's molded how I've grown

Looking at the bigger picture, there'll always be people like Hitler

And balancing it out, Mother Teresa tryna fix the world

Then Ghandi making sure the scales don't tip

Turn the darker side but that's to mix in life's elixir

Without bad, there's no good

Without wood, there's no fire

Without the hood, the posh house price wouldn't be higher

No stronger, no weaker, no stupid, no deeper

No dick dropping rubbish, there's no work for street sweepers

Without life, there'd be no death

And I don't stop the pain, just concentrate on the memories they left

When I'm looking at the stars, I realize

I'm just a speck on the Earth's surface

I measure my worth by my intellect

We've all got a purpose, some people got three

Some people fall in line and other have got dreams

We all do our best with the tools we were given

Shit, my hammer and chisel, is this life that I'm living?

Life in the balance, scales of justice

Reach for the answers but failed to touch it

My mind lost in this, defined by my opposite

Life in the balance, rise to the challenge

Life in the balance, scales of justice

Reach for answers but failed to touch it

My mind lost in this, defined by my opposite

Life in the balance, rise to the challenge

Eight steps away

In fact, flip that eight on its side

Because now I infinitely chase

For that intimate embrace with lady luck

I mean, fuck, how long can someone stay in a rut?

I'm like, no

You see, that's all on me, to re-evaluate my roles and forget the greed

But sometimes I think, do I know myself?

And if not, is that why I can't control myself?

I've got a family, man, I should be responsible

Same time mind stakes held in a constant pull

That's why my girl's so stressed, hey

'Cause I get under your skin like an X-Ray

But let's pray that it change for the best

Deep breath to the chest, now I'm ready for the next day

You're in life with the next brain, tryna be the opposite like a sex change

Focus head space

Life in the balance, scales of justice

Reach for the answers but failed to touch it

My mind lost in this, defined by my opposite

Life in the balance, rise to the challenge

Life in the balance, scales of justice

Reach for the answers but failed to touch it

My mind lost in this, defined by my opposite

Life in the balance, rise to the challenge

It's like I'm standing on the moon staring at the world

Tryna work out the balance of this life we hold

It's all there is to be encrypted in the Mayan scrolls

The cycle of the fifth sun is coming to a close

Twenty-twelve will only truly show us what that holds

The plot thickens as I stand here to break the mold

Got my hands out, trying not to feel the cold

But some people walking by are filled with an icy soul

Tools by the side, they take your life for your friggin' phone

Others feel helpless, the selfless give a child a home

Rich feed the rich while the others just apply for loans

Money buys everything but love does define this goal

I gotta live fast but won't be dying barely old

Hedonistic lifestyles reflect how our lives unfold

Life is one big cycle like the vinyl spinnin' round it goes

And it goes

Equilibrium

See a billion desperate parts conjoined and there you'll find brilliance

The ground amphibians, submerged in slime

Emerging like blunt when blunt worlds collide

The sun burns his eyes, the ice sliced his feet to bits

You ain't gotta teach it shit

'Cause the change is instinctual, the pace is unthinkable

Never put your faith in a fake individual

Balance

From the fans and the mandibles and talents

To manacles and batons to cannons

To mechanical contraptions, fashioned out of passion

That could turn the Earth back into a burnt black chasm

Shit happens

Atoms, bound by compassion

To fractal patterns I saw spinning in the caverns of my mind once

It all ties up

If I could see a bright sky shine when my eyes shut