Ship In a Bottle

You build a perfect ship in a bottle

Pick your brain apart and put it in with needles and pins

To set sail all on your lonesome

No crew no safety net

Anchor all thoughts to the bottom

No one on the deck to help you

Your eyes burning from the salt water

That threatens to drown you

From where you lashed yourself to the wheel

As you try to steer

Your ship in a bottle

Into a dark and roiling sea

Trying to protect your ship and you

Man was not meant to be an island

But you took it a step father

And built your ship in a bottle and sealed it up and threw

It into the sea

But now the corks starting to pop

And the glass is cracking

As you try to sail a ship surrounded by the walls you made

With ineffectual sails

And a rudder that doesn’t move

How can you succeed all alone

Let’s make a deal

Tell me your thoughts you dare not speak

And I’ll tell you mine

Together we can fix this ship

And crack the glass into a smaller sea

Where this ship has a chance to fly across the waves

Instead of sinking

In the vastness of the ocean