Summer, Highland Falls

They say that these
Are not the best of times
But they're the only times
I've ever known
And I believe there is a
Time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that
Sad surrender in my lover's eyes
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what
Our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria

So we'll argue and we'll compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience
Our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to
Recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
But we choose between
Reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria

How thoughtlessly
We dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our respective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria