Get The Balance Right
Get The Balance Right
Appears on: "People Are People" album
"The Singles 81-85" album
"Catching Up With Depeche Mode" album
"Remixes 81...04" album
"Get The Balance Right" single
Lead singer: Dave Gahan
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing credit: ©1983 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Lyrics electronically reprinted with permission.
There's more besides
Joyrides
The little house in the countryside
Understand
Learn to demand
Compromise
And sometimes lie
 
Get the balance right
Get the balance right
 
Be responsible
Respectable
Stable but gullible
Concerned and caring
Help the helpless
But always remain
Ultimately selfish
 
When you think you've got a hold of it all
You haven't got a hold at all
When you reach the top
Get ready to drop
Prepare yourself for the fall
You're gonna fall
It's almost predictable
 
Almost
 
Don't turn this way
Don't turn that way
Straight down the middle until next Thursday
First to the left
Then back to the right
Twist and turn 'til you've got it right