Balance

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1. The Seventh Seal

Walk me down to the wishing well
Help me find that miracle
Splash that holy water on me
Drown my faith in trinity, yeah!
Oh yeah
Little by little, gonna get it, I swear
One more piece of the puzzle, I’m there
Gotta get lucky gotta get that done
Little bit of luck never hurt no one
Come on take me down, down, down….
I’m in a cold sweat
Lord don’t let me drown, drown, drown, drown
In mother earth’s soul, yet
Under darken skies
We’ll see the light
Broken now I can’t help but feel
Someone cracked the seventh seal
Nothing sacred, nothing left unturned
When nothing’s simple then nothing’s learned
So take me down to the virgin spring
Wash away my suffering, oh
Splash that holy water on me
Wash my eyes so I can see
Come on take me down, down, down….
I’m in a cold sweat
Lord don’t let me drown, drown, drown, drown
In mother earth’s soul, not yet
Lord I think I found, found, found….
My mother lode, hey
Down, down, down, down, down, down,
Take me down, down, down, down….
Take me

2. Can't Stop Loving You

There’s a time and place for everything, for everyone
We can push with all our might, but nothing’s gonna come
Oh no, nothing’s gonna change
And if I asked you not to try
Oh could you let it be
I wanna hold you and say
We can’t throw this all away
Tell me you won’t go, you won’t go
Do you have to hear me say
I can’t stop lovin’ you
And no matter what you say or do
You know my heart is true, oh
I can’t stop lovin’ you
You can change your friends, your place in life
You can change your mind
We can change the things we say
And do it anytime
Oh no, but I think you’ll find
That when you look inside your heart
Oh baby, I’ll be there
Hold on
I’m holding on
Baby, just come on, come on, come on
I just wanna hear you say
I can’t stop lovin’ you
And no matter what you say or do
You know my heart is true, oh
I can’t stop lovin’ you
Oh, I’m twisted and tied
And all I can remember
Is how hard we tried
Only to surrender
And when it’s over
I know how it’s gonna be
And true love will never die
No, not fade away
I can’t stop lovin’ you
And no matter what you say or do
You know my heart is true, oh
I can’t stop lovin’ you
And I know what I got to do
Hey ray, what you said is true
I can’t stop lovin’ you, oh
Oh, I can’t stop lovin’ you

3. Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)

It’s ok, I’ll do what I want
If I choose, I can take the fall
There’s a choice
It’s my destiny
In my hands
Yeah it’s up to me
I can drive
I can shoot a gun in the streets
Score me some heroin
I can jump
Be the sacrifice
Bear my cross just like Jesus Christ
And I don’t wanna hear what love can do
No, I ain’t gonna tell ya what’s right for you
Is it right to take the easy way
Close your eyes
Get on your knees and pray
Now you’re saved by a higher voice
Givin’ up, givin’ up, givin’ up your choice
If I’m wrong then I’ll pay for it
If I’m right, yeah you’re gonna hear about it
But I’ve tried, yeah I’ve tried for it
I tried, I tried, ’til I’m satisfied
And I……
I’m tired of hearing what love can do
and I…..
Ain’t gonna tell you what’s right for you
I’ve seen the damage done
Down with the shotgun
Don’t stop the setting sun on my kingdom come
Ohhhh…….
Is it right to take the easy way
I don’t know
I get on your knees and pray
Now I’m saved by a higher voice
Givin’ up, givin’ up, givin’ up my choice
If I’m wrong then I’ll pay for it
If I’m right, yeah you’re gonna deal with it
’cause I’ve tried, yeah I tried for it
I tried, I tried, even die for it
No I…..
Don’t wanna hear what love can do
No I….
I can’t tell you what’s right for you
Oh I…. I… I…..
Tell you what love can do
No I… I… I…
Can’t say but your time is through
I’ve seen the damage done
Oh Lord, I’ve heard the shotgun
I fought the setting sun on my kingdom come
Ohhh…….
Don’t tell me what love can do
Hey, hey, hey
Don’t tell me what love can do
Hey, hey, hey

4. Amsterdam

Looking good through the window
Shinin’ red and blue light
A little thick in the bottom
But still lookin’ alright, yeah
Got a pocket full of money
Got me a long night ahead
A quick stop in the Bulldog
Score me some Panama red, yeah
Wham, bam, oh Amsterdam
Yea, yea, yea
Stone you like nothin’ else can
Yea, yea, yea
Hot damn, roll an Amsterdam
Yea, yea, yea
If she can’t, then nothin’ else can
Caught a plane outta Moscow
Spent one cold night in Berlin
It’s a long hard way
But I’m a’comin’, back again, yea
Wham, bam, oh Amsterdam
Yea, yea, yea
Stone you like nothin’ else can
Yea, yea, yea
Yea come on now, roll an Amsterdam
Yea, yea, yea
If she can’t, then nothin’ else can
Yea, yea, yea…..
Wham, bam, oh Amsterdam
Yea, yea, yea
Stone you like nothin’ else can
Yea, yea, yea
Hot damn, roll an Amsterdam
Yea, yea, yea
If she can’t, then nothin’ else can
Yea, yea, yea
Wham, bam, oh Amsterdam
Yea, yea, yea
You don’t have to worry about the man
Yea, yea, yea
Hot damn, burn an Amsterdam yea
Yea, yea, yea
Stone me like nothin’ else can
Yea, yea, yea

5. Big Fat Money

Some say money is bad for the soul
Bad for the rock, bad for the roll
Bad for the heart, bad for the brain
Bad for damn near everything
Oh yeah…..
It must be good for something
Come on pay the rent
Telephone, telefax, telefunkin’ teletrash
Tell a cop, tell a friend, think we hit the stoney end
Nothing left, nothing right
Now they want a bigger bite
Everybody wants some
Everybody wants big money, oh yeah
They want big, fat money
That’s what I want
Big fat money
Too much temptation
Enough to kill a generation
Space station, starvation, premature ejaculation
This ain’t groovin’, this ain’t funky
It’s on my back but it ain’t my monkey, no
Oh yeah, gimme some of that big, fat money
That’s what I want
Big fat money
Big fat money
Smoke this, eat that my ol’ lady’s gettin’ fat
High rise, high rent before it’s earned, it’s all been spent
Where’s it gonna come from?
Who’s it gonna go to?
Ain’t beatin’, but I’m being eatin’ by money, oh yeah
Big, big money, gimme, gimme, gimme
Some of that big, fat money, alright
That’s what I want
Well alright, oh, big, big money
Now gimme, gimme, gimme
Some of that big money
That’s what I want
That’s all I need
Gimme big, fat money
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme some of that big fat money

6. Strung Out

7. Not Enough

To love somebody naturally
To love somebody faithfully
To love somebody equally
Is not enough
Is not enough
Is not enough
To love somebody secretly
And never touch
To love somebody honestly
And always trust
To love somebody tenderly
The tender touch
Is not enough
Is not enough
Love hurts sometimes
It’s not so easy to find, no
Searchin’ everywhere
You turn and swear
It’s always been there
To love somebody foolishly
Can happen once
To love somebody hopelessly
It hurts so much
To love somebody equally
Is not enough
Is not enough
Is not enough
Love takes a little time
It’s not so easy to find, no
Searchin’ everywhere
You turn and swear
She’s always been there
Standin’ there….oh
And if it don’t come easily
One thing you must believe
You can always have trust in me
Because my heart will always be
Yours honestly
Love hurts sometimes
It’s not so easy to find, no
Searchin’ everywhere
Then turn and swear
It’s always been there
Standin’ there
Love hurts sometimes
Not yours, it’s not mine, no
Love’s only to share
Turn and swear
It’s everywhere
Standin’ there
’cause it’s always been there

8. Aftershock

I don’t care about the way that ya treated me
And I ain’t crying ’bout the love I’m paying for
No, I ain’t bitchin’ ’bout the things you been puttin’ down here in the street
No, I ain’t going ’round saying things about you, I can’t repeat
Hey it ain’t gonna change overnight, no
And it ain’t gonna change without a fight, no
Now I ain’t saying that I’m never gonna beg you, oh baby come back
But right now baby, I don’t really wanna see your face yeah, and that’s a fact
Right now, honey all I know is what I’m feelin’ inside
Right now, baby I’m alone and I’m swallowing a lot of pride
And it ain’t gonna change overnight, no
And it ain’t gonna change without a fight
Livin’ with the aftershock
Why, why, why, I never thought she’d walk
But now I’m livin’ with the aftershock
And it ain’t gonna change, it ain’t goin’ away, no
Yeah, she opened up my eyes
Seeing what I wanna see
She kinda took me by surprise
Showed me what I hadn’t seen
Yeah, yeah
Livin’ with the aftershock
Yeah, yeah livin’ with the aftershock
My, my, my I guess that I never thought she’d walk
Livin’ with the aftershock
And it ain’t going to change, it ain’t going away
I said it ain’t going to change without a fight
I’m livin’ with the aftershock
I’m livin’ with the aftershock
Never gonna change

9. Doin’ Time
10. Baluchitherium

11. Take Me Back (Déjà Vu)

I thought I saw you in the distance
I thought I’d found you once again
Touched on that feelin’ for an instant
Could not recall just where or when
Oh no
Some desert island off Morocco
We had a love so hard to find
Oh so full of life, so free and easy
Another place, another time, oh
Take me back
I wanna be there with you
It happened just like that
Slip in a dream or two
Come on, take me back
Oh, deja vu
One soul, one mind
One light that shines
One love, so fine
Oh, come on, take me back
Some call it fate, some superstition
Some call it luck, it’s all the same
Just one of the mysteries of creation
Somethin’ you feel but can’t explain
Oh, take me back
I wanna be there with you
It happened just like that
I’ve fallin’ deep into
Oh girl, come on
I want you to take me there
Oh, I know, I know, I know, I know…..
Take me back, baby
I swear I’ve been with you
It happened just like that
Send me a dream or two
Come on, take me back
Oh, deja vu

12. Feelin'

Outta touch most the time
Gotta lotta things on my mind
Kickin’ down, where to start
It’s the hardest thing, oh…..
Grow it long, shave it off
Life is hard, never soft
I need a change, I need it quick
Before it makes me sick
That’s what’s on my mind
Pay attention, watch your back
Pay your dues, stay on track
Got no room to second guess
Puts me under stress, oh…..
If I were you, you were me
I wonder who I’d wanna be
With just one wish you can’t refuse
I wouldn’t know what to choose
Feelin’….no, don’t like what I’ve been told I’m feelin’
Feelin’ what no one else will ever know I’m feelin’, oh….
Now black is white and white is black
Got politicians smokin’ crack
And John Paul’s all bullet-proofed
It puts me through the roof, yea….
I were you and you were me
I wonder who I’d rather be
If I had one wish I’d, take it
Feelin’….no, don’t like what I’ve been told I’m feelin’
And I’m seein’ what no one else will ever know I’m seein’
Come on, feelin’ hey, I don’t understand these things I’m feelin’, no….
Outta touch most the time
Too many things on my mind
Shuttin’ down, gotta stop this thing
Feelin’….no, I don’t like what I’ve been told I’m feelin’
I’m bleedin’…like no one else will ever know I’m bleedin’
Dealin’….I’m dealin’ with these things I’m feelin’
I’m dreamin’, I’m dreamin’, I’m dreamin’ things that show me what
I’m seein’
Seein’… I’m seein’ things that I don’t know I’m feelin’
I’ve been feelin’, I’m feelin’, I’m feelin’ things that I don’t know
I don’t know, In don’t know what I’m seein’
Hey, I don’t understand

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About:

Balance is known as the final studio album with singer Sammy Hagar, and it showcases a group that knows what it’s good at. The lunacy of the band’s youth has been replaced with a sense of refinement and of sharpening its trademarks. Eddie Van Halen still sneaks in his unusual approach to melody in the solo spaces, and a track like “Don’t Tell Me (What Love Can Do)” is the stronger for it. “Can’t Stop Lovin’ You” could use even more of the group’s wild abandon, despite a chorus no one’s likely to forget. “Amsterdam” is Hagar’s party-first vibe at full force. “Big Fat Money” indulges the band’s boogie side at top speed. “Not Enough” starts at the piano for a power ballad that’s far more orthodox than the group’s typical output. “Aftershock” adds wonderful guitar color from Eddie that recalls the band’s earliest days, while Alex Van Halen tries out a tighter, less swinging style on the drums. “Doin’ Time” and “Strung Out” are bizarre interludes. “Take Me Back (Deja Vu)” is the band’s approximation of Southern rock.

Balance is the tenth studio album by Van Halen. Released in 1995, it is the final of four albums to feature Sammy Hagar as the band’s lead vocalist.

During the recording of Balance and its subsequent Ambulance Tour, Van Halen’s second incarnation broke up. Regarding this time period, in 1997, Eddie Van Halen told Guitar World Magazine ”There had been a variety of conflicts brewing between Sammy and the band since I quit drinking on October 2, 1994… It got so bad that I actually started drinking again.”