Balance by Seth Avett As Darling

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

Wanting more

Wanting more

Balance