An edifice built on quicksand
Only has so long to stand
While sunlit skies still glow
And fair-weather winds blow
Soon enough those storms will show
And that’s when we’ll really know
If there’s any solid foundation
Or just a bivouac imagination
The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source
If this is a test of my patience
I don’t know if anyone passed
They say patience is a virtue
But so is getting it done fast
Hairs split into pure thin air
Debating hallucinations
Scaling stairs which lead nowhere
In mindless reiteration
Vanity’s bonfire zips
Underneath winter’s glaze
Oh, we’re only going through a phase
These days will slip into history’s haze
If this bridge doesn’t burn over a phrase
The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source
Just because we’re here now
Doesn’t mean we’re not there then
There’s a lot I’d love to disavow
But we’ll probably do it all again
Seeds of optimism
Drowned in springtime rains
We were only going through a phase
Down slippery slopes over homegrown clichés
Fate always seems to turn on a phrase
Peace poses the golden riddle:
At what point do opposite sides agree?
Truth might be right down the middle
Halfway between you and me
The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source
Fortune scorching
Under summer’s rays
We were only going through a phase
We went torching set the Earth ablaze
Such is the power of a well-placed a phrase
Time is shaped like a funnel
Only one way to slide
Deeper in toward the tunnel
And out the other side
The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source