In Stride

In Stride - Mantler

You pay to play from day to day

From ports of call their voices fall

But the ship passes over

Ever striving never to stay

At every stage at every age it's hard

To turn

The page

At every pass retry your class

Aaahhhh

For every stroke you're rich but broke

All the traps and the trappings

Ah

Ever endless to every end

For every turn for every burn it cuts

It breaks

It stays

You keep with care that ember rare

You shield it close against the foes

More than a pledge apromise kept

The book is writ it's you who lives it

You feel the pain don't take the blame

The fear is free strength costs a fee

And forces waned can be regained

You shine a path and that's how I knew that

You'd take it in stride

I always knew that you'd take it in stride

No matter the cards you're dealt

The blows you're dealt

Never mind you would take

Them in your stride

You'd take it in stride

I knew that you'd take it in stride

Shot through with the rays of your hope

All our days for all places and times

You would take it

Take

You would take it

Take

You would take it

Take it all in stride in stride in stride

You'd take it in stride

I always knew that you'd

Take it in stride

No matter the cards you're dealt

The blows you're dealt never mind you would take

Them in your stride

You'd take it in stride

I always knew that you'd take it in stride

In stride

Shot through with the rays of your hope

All our days for all places and times

You would take it

You would take it

You would take it

You would take it all

In stride in stride in stride

In stride in stride in stride

In stride in stride in stride

In stride in stride

In stride in stride

In stride in stride

In stride in stride