Life in the Balance - The Four Owls, Jam Baxter

The world is well balanced like karma is

Do you find 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 parting 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, Ol' 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

Assure as the sun won’t shine, and the rain falling

The balance is untold in this life we all in

On this misty morning, I zone, at one

With the things that 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

That darker side but thats just the mix in life’s elixir

Without bad theres no good, without wood theres 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 theres no work for street sweepers

Without life there’d be no death

And that I don’t stop the pain

Just concentrate on the memories they left

When I’m looking at the stars I realise

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 others 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 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 thats all on me, to re-evaluate my goal

And forget the greed, but sometimes I think

Do I know myself?

And if not

Is that why I can’t control myself?

I got a family man I should be responsible

Same time mind states held in that constant ball

That’s why my girls so stressed hey

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

But lets pray that it change for the best

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

Your in life with the next brain

Tryna be the opposite like a sex change

Focus head space

Its like I’m standin' on the moon staring at the world

Tryna work out the balance of this life we hold

It’s all a mystery encrypted in the Mayan scrolls

The cycle of the fifth sun is coming to a close

2012 will only truly show us what that holds

The plot thickens as I stand here to break the mold

Got my hands out, tryin' not to feel the cold

But some people walkin' by are fueled with an icy soul

Tools by they side, they take your life for your frigging 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 that’s the finest gold

I gotta live fast and 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 deified brilliance

Grand amphibians, submerged in slime

Emerging like blood when blunt words collide

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

But you ain’t gotta teach it shit

'Cos the change is instinctual, the pace is unthinkable

But never put your faith in a fake individual

Balance

From the fangs and the mandibles and talons

To mannicles and batons to cannons

To mechanical contraptions, fashioned out of passion

That could turn the Earth back to 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