"Balmes (A Better Life)" is a house song by German DJ Ian Pooley.

The song, which is done in filtered house style, includes flamenco guitars.

[4] A VHS single, featuring the song's music video, also received limited release.

[8] Billboard's Michael Paoletta praised the song as "a fine merging" of house and flamenco guitars, also calling Esthero's vocals "sublime" and adding that the song is "perfect for beach-front, sunset soirees, peak-hour dancefloor action, or 'back to mine' interludes."

[10] In June 2001, an accompanying music video, directed by Max Zimmerman and with production by German producers Fiftyeight,[11] was released.

[12] It featured an animated Esthero singing the song, and a man falling asleep in a house, which floats off the ground.