Perceptions

VersaEmerge Perceptions Lyrics
1.Percipere

(instrumental)


2.In Pursuing Design

Now that you know...

You never said a word with tangled hands dry,
and I see through rose-colored eyes.
Tell me I'm the only chance
constantly hanging from the sky.

Pursuing design both far and wide.
Now that you know there's time,
rethink everything heard by the careless choir.

The way we see these things...
it's how we dream about reality.
problematic to believe, let alone perceive.
With doubt your mind reads through internally,
while observation flees.
Nothing can turn the sun back around.

Pursuing design and out of time.
Now that you know there's time,
rethink everything heard by the careless choir.

Sit and watch as I arise.
I lean on surmise,
though their eyes are far from dry.
Will fingers uncross? Will these knots untie?

brief: take a chance, hope high, do not let life pass you by


3.Consider The Sea

Lyricist:Blake Preston Harnage, Devin Ingelido, Sierra Kusterbeck,
Anthony Martone

Tides will rise, the time will call
Wish I never saw it fall beneath
Who we are and what we've done
It hasn't shown

Don't tell me that this is just a reason to sleep
Compare your hands to mine and see who tried this time
And wanting nothing more than to flee these streets
You live for night but this is life so consider, so consider the
sea

And I won't say you're useless because I, I've seen you dream
And convincing the sun not to rise won't hide, won't hide you
And I won't say you're useless because of these sea sick dreams
Forty winks, placid and stationary

Don't tell me that this is just a reason to sleep
Compare your hands to mine and see who tried this time
And wanting nothing more than to flee these streets
You live for night but this is life so consider, so consider the
sea

For the words I lack, places I won't go
In fear of never coming back

Don't tell me that this is just a reason to sleep
Compare your hands to mine and see who tried this time
And wanting nothing more than to flee these streets
You live for night but this is life so consider, so consider the
sea


4.The Reification Of Notion (The Realization)

Falling... oh, the warmth it brought to us.
It put an end to what we thought couldn't stop.
We're bound to wake up.
(Who we are and what we've done, it hasn't shown)
(Sit and watch as I arise)


5.The Authors

Lyricist:Blake Preston Harnage, Devin Ingelido, Sierra Kusterbeck,
Anthony Martone

They're letting their eyes cross
'Cause they don't know, they don't know what we know
That these lights are only here to lead us in the wrong
direction
Or to a false impression

Impact is up to us

It's all these days that kept us so far away
We can break out of this name, we could give ourselves meaning
We were never sorry for the choices that we've made
Not to sing in your name, but what is faith?

Not in the mood to chase
Not after these things, will never change
A small claim to the stories we've told
Who says we're wrong, with waking arms we stood so strong

Impact is inevitable and it's up to us

And it's all these days that kept us so far away
We can break out of this name, we could give ourselves meaning
We were never sorry for the choices that we've made
Not to sing in your name, but what is faith?

I hope I'm not the only one with these words sitting on my
tongue
I'm not afraid to say this only drowning men could see
That's not enough for me

And it's all these days that kept us so far away
We can break out of this name, we could give ourselves meaning
We were never sorry for the choices that we've made
Not to sing in your name, oh what is faith?


6.Clocks

Lyricist:Blake Harnage, Devin Ingelide, Sierra Kusterbeck, Anthony
Martone

Since that clock's first tick, A dark hue and fear driven
It's only real till it ends
As the stars fall on our head
Call the wind the thief for stealing their prayers

Look at us shake the sky pulling the whites from my eyes
And as the hands are spinning they're waving you goodbye
Test for more is what we're striving for
As we sleep we walk

Can't awake, can't awake the ones who live this life
'Cause people are the same only habits change
But your starry eyes, oh they don't tell me a thing

Look at us shake the sky pulling the whites from my eyes
And as the hands are spinning they're waving you goodbye
A test for more is what we're striving for
As we sleep, we walk

I swear, I felt you crawling under my skin
I swear, oh I swear
Towers won't fit our view
Forget the man in the mountains follows you, he follows you

But your starry eyes, no they don't mean a thing

As we sleep, we walk
As we sleep, we walk
As we sleep, we walk
As we sleep, we walk


7.New Frontier (The Awakening)

(Falling... oh,
the warmth it bought to us. it put
an end to what we thought couldn't
stop. we're bound to wake
up.)

Granted we take, the things
we grow to see more clearly. lost
in reverie...


8.The Blank Static Screen

Dare I ask you this?
Where do you stand as a come and go acquaintance?
I've been pondering around this bond for sometime now.

Where have you been?
Where have you been hiding in, is it in the tall forest?
Won't he listen to the voices calling his name... will he
attempt?

I've been laying on the other side,
Where they are all waving goodbye behind a fake frown.
Feeding lies to the ears of a brother that has been lost,
Trying to find a way back home

But stumbles on the roots he made wandering, wandering
As he barks the words that have no meaning,
I try to paint a picture in my mind of how things used to be.

As you say your speech,
The blank static screen is trying to make the channel clear
But gets interrupted by your careless heart.

Walking backwards, straying away
Looking at me with a face afraid of
Being a false witness to this never-ending case
The thought of empty-handedness is having its way
So stop running away from me

Away we go tonight, but we're far from our goodbyes
The end lies in your hands as we are keeping set minds

It's an empty page with growing age
It's bound to flourish again