Time's just grains of sand
Blown out of sight by winds of change
Nothing done by a man alone
Is destined to remain
Our own desires deceive us
And pervert the best laid plans
In wickedness and desperation
Beats the heart of man

Boats without an anchor
Ships without a sail
Blown by doubt and circumstance
Too far gone to bail
Why go past the harbor
Why ignore the light
Sailing on an endless sea
To vanish in the night

If you build with a crooked cornerstone
How you gonna make it stand?
If a ship goes down in heavy seas
How you gonna get to land?
What you gonna do when the river rises
And your house is on the sand?
If you build with a crooked cornerstone
How you gonna make it stand?
Sit and watch the river
When the flood is risin' high
The wreckage of the race upstream
The flotsam of the lie
Houses from the riverside
Shanties on the pier
All the ones who told themselves
"It'll never happen here"

If you build with a crooked cornerstone
How you gonna make it stand?
If a ship goes down in heavy seas
How you gonna get to land?
What you gonna do when the river rises
And your house is on the sand?
If you build with a crooked cornerstone
How you gonna make it stand?

If you build with a crooked cornerstone
How you gonna make it stand?
If a ship goes down in heavy seas
How you gonna get to land?
What you gonna do when the river rises
And your house is on the sand?
If you build with a crooked cornerstone
How you gonna make it stand?
How you gonna make it stand?
How you gonna make it stand?
How you gonna make it stand?