I've often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat

They're (NTP) going to get an injunction, there's just no way around it. The question is whether it's stayed or not.

Kiss not only stayed up with the times, it stayed ahead. You try to know what listeners want even before they know.

As we sit here, continents are adrift, like leaves on a pond. GPS tracking shows North America & Europe currently moving apart at the same rate your fingernail grows, or about two yards in a human lifetime.

There is a ship afloat without a captain,

You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.