Get the Balance Right! Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Lostmycapo 

Cover art for Get the Balance Right! lyrics by Depeche Mode

Corporate America - GAH!! This hasn't anything to do with that. It is about life shaping you as you grow - Getting the balance right so you don't become a greedy right-winger or a liberal nut-job.

'always remain ultimately selfish' is a comment on how at our core human beings are selfish. Self preservation is a strong instinctual drive - but we can learn to be compassionate, concerned and caring.

Be Responsible, respectable but leave your self a little gullibility so you can still keep an open mind.

It is kind of almost like a speech someone would give at a commencement and I agree it is one of DM best