Stay Divided - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

My brother graduated college in spring

And we were both living back home

In the town we were raised in

For the summer

One afternoon, we went swimming

On the lake across the street

With a couple of friends

By the house where my roommate my freshman year grew up

On a whim or a dare

We decided to see if we could try and flip

His parents' 300 pound swim raft

The four of us stood at each corner

Like they were the ends of the earth

And began to rock the vessel back and forth

It moved slow, as if it’s body ached from old age

Then stood up like a skyscraper

Before crashing back to earth, scattering us like debris

We plunged into the water like stones

My brother and Dan surfaced first

And probably aged a year for every second

Before Pat and I came back up

We couldn’t flip it back over

So it just sat there like a turtle stuck on it’s shell