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Artist: Alec Benjamin
Canonical path: /alec-benjamin/balancing-game
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Balancing Game
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Balancing Game
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You can't have glory without the pain
You can't have freedom without the chains
It's a fragile existence, a delicate system
This life is a balancing game
I thought I could tip the scales, cheat the game
Have the Sun without the rain
Take your love and not exchange
My heart for yours, I guess that it's me to blame
So this is what I've found
From the bridges I've burned down
That it all comes back around
Now I know
You can't have glory without the pain
You can't have freedom without the chains
It's a fragile existence, a delicate system
This life is a balancing game
So then I called you up to make amends
Said take me back and you said yes
Now I know just how it ends
You played the game like me, it was all pretend
So this is what I've learned
You can't take and not return
Because one day you'll get burned
And now I know
You can't have glory without the pain
You can't have freedom without the chains
It's a fragile existence, a delicate system
This life is a balancing game
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Alec Benjamin performs "Balancing Game", and this lyric page sits inside the Alec Benjamin catalog on LyroVerse.
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