VersaEmerge

Let Down :
Their arms, they reach,
They branch like they're trying to catch me,
They stand so tirelessly,
Outgrown, the sides of roads,
Are mixed in gold,
The summer has me,
The summer has me sold.

I see the hints,
Just picture it,
Craving to witness,
But we blinked and missed it,
Beg to the sky,
Long days and all night,
Beg to the sky,
Long days and all night.

Here we are,
Rooted deep.
Looking up,
So sun sweet,
Until the fall,
We lose it all
Here we are.

Thin and bare,
Stuck in the stiff stare,
I wait up in the air,
That makes it all fair,
We stop and grow and stop and grow,
We co-exist, flourished and sun kissed.

Anything you'd like,
Your back road eyes,
They're getting dry and unnatural smile,
You're lost in this place,
I see it in your face,
Lost in this place,
I see it in your face.

Here we are,
Rooted deep.
Looking up,
So sun sweet,
Until the fall,
We lose it all
Here we are.

YEAH!

Whoa, whoa.

There's a vulture on my shoulder.
The time I'm wasting,
Can't say where I've been.
Hey, mind reader,
Don't let me get away,
Don't let me get away.
(You'll never know)
Stranger I know so well.
Don't let me get away,
Don't let me get away.

Blame it on the television.
You make your own love.
I'm pulling,
I'm pushing,
I'm putting it out of my mind.
We aim our arrows high,
Oh dear, I've worked with father sky,
So why don't we just go?

Don't let me get away,
Don't let me get away,
(So why don't we just go?)
Don't let me get away,
Don't let me get away,
I'm lost in it,

There's a vulture on my shoulder,
Don't let me get away,
Don't let me get away,
I'm lost in it,
So lost in it.

Father Sky :
What a deal I've worked with Father Sky
He's given me a choice with time
Walking straight on lines
Don't let our ankles roll
You've got to tip toe
Not to hurt your soul
Our bodies take a toll

You move the Pacific
You move...

Tearing through the light of your horizon
I try to find a way to screw my head on right
Tell me to confess, but I have no regrets
You've got me by the neck

It's raw to my leather flesh
I gave my best away
To no one specific
You're no one specific

A bone chilling culture mess
And still the vulture over my head
Is threatening my sins
Digging deep inside my chest
Realize we're loving less
Oh, and I gave my best

You move the Pacific
You move...

Tearing through the light of your horizon
I try to find a way to screw my head on right
Tell me to confess, but I have no regrets
You've got me by the neck

It's raw to my leather flesh
I gave my best away
To no one specific
You're no one specific

Who are you when no one's watching?
'Cause I always find myself talking
To someone in time with me
To who do you speak, but never see?
To who do you speak, but never see?
(You're no one specific, you're no one specific, you're no one specific)

Tearing through the light of your horizon
I try to find a way to screw my head on right
Tell me to confess, but I have no regrets
You've got my be the neck

It's raw to my leather flesh
I gave my best away
To no one specific
You're no one specific

(What a deal I've worked with Father Sky)
To no one specific
You're no one specific

(What a deal I've worked with Father Sky)
You're no one specific
You're no one...

Lost Tree :
Their arms
They reach
They branch
Like they're trying to catch me
They stand so tirelessly
Outgrown the sides of roads
All mixed in gold
This summer has me...
This summer has me sold
I see the hints
Just picture it,
Craving to witness
But we blinked and missed it
Beg to the sky, long days and old night

Here we are, rooted deep, looking up. So sun sweet...
Until the fall we lose it all...
Here we are

Thin and bare
Stuck in a stiff stare
I wait up in the air,
That makes it all fair
We stop and grow and stop and grow.
We coexist,
Flourished
And sun-kissed
Anything you'd like,
Your backroad eyes,
They're getting dry,
An unnatural smile.
You're lost in this place, I see it in your face...

Here we are, rooted deep, looking up. So sun sweet...
Until the fall we lose it all...
Here we are

... So lost in it

Mythology :
I've looked right past the simple things
What have my eyes missed?
Stuck in a space where nothing seems to fit
You live a myth, obsessed with it
Quiet as the sound
I'm always asking what it means
And now I can't stop twisting round and round

I've grown into this
This myth with you

I can't stop twisting around this storyline
Distorting my insides
I won't forget I'm drenched in it
'Cause I can't stop twisting around this storyline
Tangled words were never mine
I won't forget I'm lost in it

Slowly bending backwards
Til my days become misshaped
You deftly sway my thoughts with your fictitious ways
Nothing in me works the same
You've got a lot to explain
Still I'm asking
And still I can't stop twisting

I've grown into this myth with you

I can't stop twisting around this storyline
Distorting my insides
I won't forget I'm drenched in it
'Cause I can't stop twisting around this storyline
Tangled words were never mine
I won't forget I'm lost in it

Knots and crosses
Skews
I fold in two
With this road we take
I've lost all control of everything, especially me
You've lost everything especially me
You bite my tongue
Now I believe

I can't stop twisting around this storyline
Distorting my insides
I won't forget I'm drenched in it
'Cause I can't stop twisting around this storyline
Tangled words were never mine
I won't forget I'm lost in it

Your Own Love :
(Make your own love, love, love)

The waterworks blocked his words,
He felt sorry,
Well I'm sorry for me too.

But I think you're broken to the fact,
I can't and won't go back,
I think you're broken to the fact.

You make your own love.
Yeah you make your own love.
Love, love.

Where did you go?
Don't you know I'm still here?
You think you're better all alone.

No, I think you're broken to the fact,
I can't and won't go back,
Yeah, I think you're broken to the fact.

You make your own love.
Yeah you make your own love.
Love, love.

What if it's all a quick dream,
Can I just stomp right through the concrete,
See who's beneath me,
And are you honest to "God" when you speak?
When you seek proof,
Does it hide from you?
I wanna feel the way you claim to feel.

You make your own love.
Yeah you make your own love.
Love, love, love.

Up There :
The waterworks blocked his words...
He felt sorry. Well I'm sorry for me too...
But I think you're broken to the fact, I can't and won't go back
But I think you're broken to the fact...

You make your own love

Where did you go,
Don't you know I'm still here?
You think you're better all alone...
No, I think you're broken to the fact, I can't and won't go back
Yeah, I think you're broken to the fact...

You make you own love

What if it's all a quick dream?
Can I just stomp right through the concrete
See who's beneath me?
And are you honest to "God" when you speak?
When you seek proof, does it hide from you?
I want to feel the way you claim to...

You make your own love

Fire (aim Your Arrows High) :
Take a look around
Our time's almost running out
Give back what you get,
Uproot questions in your head

The looking-glass is clear...
What you want is near... nearly gone

Shoot out all the lights, hold your ground, we'll hit the sky
It's time you aim your arrows high
Take down all the doubt, cast it out, let's do it now
It's time we aim our arrows high

Sewn into your soul,
This is out of our control
Be who you need to be
There's no other you or me

The angst you hold, you got to let it go, let it go!
Said to myself "I'm so alone", but I'm never alone...
I'll talk and walk to find the impossible
Yes, we're hexed
Stuck in a mess
We're all such a wreck!

Redesign Me :
If you were still around,
You'd tell me I'm different, since the last time you called me out
I'd put you down, I'd tell you it's a waste of time to keep you by my side.
If you were still around, I swear, we would sit and stare, we would be nowhere...

And to this day I look for what it's going to take, to just let things be...
Still today I wonder is it you or me who should feel guilty...
I'm pulling, I'm pushing, I'm putting it out of my mind.
... thought that I had said goodbye

If you were still around,
You'd tell me that you're sorry, but you don't know what you're sorry about
I'd keep to myself, keep you guessing, make you question
If it's ever going to work itself out.
If you were still around, I swear, we would sit and stare, we would be nowhere...

Yeah, it still haunts me...

Stranger :
It's so easy
When you're fake believing,
Untruly speaking, wrecking feelings...
It's so easy
Sparking opposite ends,
Fighting the good within, hiding my reasons...

Stranger I know so well,
You got me tripping over myself
Can't trust in you...
Cause as I reach for your hand,
I still sink into quicksand.
Isn't my good side worth rescuing?

It's not easy
Admitting your demons, tangled up in seasons,
Finding lame reasons...
I can't fall asleep but I sure can dream

I always flip myself into a shape I can't make
Thinking so hard about who we really are...
You spark the good within
But I was never good at listening...
Listen until you're gone...

You’ll Never Know :
You'll never know,
I didn't want it to go
The way it went...
South
Not a word
From my mouth
But from the moment
I shook your hand
I was determined

And when I'm near you, I don't speak, I barely look
I'm afraid you'll see it in my face

Each time it honey drips right off of my lips
I never stick, so how'd you get me stuck in this?
Each time it honey drips right off my lips
And now I wish you never got me stuck in this
But it won't show, and you'll never know
I'll lay low and you'll never know...

You'll never know
But my left brain
Took the wrong things...
East You got me all crazy
Come off lazy
But I'm more alive
On the inside

When I'm near you I can't speak, I never look
I'm afraid you'll see it in my face...

I was smiling like a Lion,
Buried myself inside your neck
... oh West...
Clawed my hands around your chest
North
With some regret...
I've never felt like this

Fixed At Zero :
This doesn't make much sense
Think far out but I'm still locked in
I'm still lost, walking circles
The floor swallowed me up
There's no where to go

There's a vulture on my shoulder
And he's telling me to give in
Always hissing right in my ear
Like it's coming from my own head
It's got me mixed up, trying not to give up
Tell me there's a way to get out of here
Oh, fixed at zero

I've learned to talk with my fingers
The only that voice that wakes my ears
Oh make my bones do something
Ever wanna jump out your skin
Anticipating til the sidewalk ends
There's no where to go

There's a vulture on my shoulder
And he's telling me to give in
Always hissing right in my ear
Like it's coming from my own head
It's got me mixed up, trying not to give up
Tell me there's a way to get out of here
Oh, fixed at zero

There's a vulture on my shoulder
And he's telling me to give in
Always hissing right in my ear
Like it's coming from my own head
It's got me mixed up, trying not to give up
Tell me there's a way to get out of here
Oh, fixed at zero

Fixed at zero

Mind Reader :
Hey, mind reader.
You know what I feel
Before I speak
It always seems you gotta one up me
Have a worse for me is that what you need
I've got it all and you've got nothing

Hey, Mind reader
Bet you didn't see this one coming
'Cause your eyes are never open
I've said sorry, you just mock me
And I'm ready to throw this up and away

I'm not able
able to say

Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other

(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)

Hey, mind reader
Just as soon as I leave the room
My stomach drops, my guts I lose
I'm not the type to follow through
But you already knew that, didn't you?

Hey, mind reader
Quick steps, reality check
I might be gone before you're back
You bite your nails at the thought of that
Just tell me off, and let me hear you say

Are you able
able to stay

Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other

(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)

Start speaking your mind reading
You can't keep me out, believe it
Start speaking say what we mean
No lies tucked in between our teeth

(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)
(Don't let me get away)

Don't let me get away
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away

Don't let me get away
I haven't been honest either
We could use each other
Don't let me get away
It's not getting any better
We could use each other

(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away
We could use each other
(Don't let me get away)
Don't let me get away

Hey, mind reader

Figure It Out :
With a swerve, my eyes avert
My mouth somehow forgets to work
So I stare until you shout
Wondering why you can't figure me out
With a change, I call the names
I'm spitting out words, hoping it works
Still I stare while they all shout
Why can't I even figure it out?

The time I'm wasting
Can't say where I've been
Catching my same old way
Slowly spin beneath the day
Your time I'm wasting
Can't say where we've been
Cause it seems to me that
Nothing's what it's ever meant to be

With my fate, my thoughts erase
My head's a blur, the picture fades
My eyes, they keep on shutting down
I can't see why you won't figure me out

The time I'm wasting
Can't say where I've been
Catching my same old way
Slowly spin beneath the day
Your time I'm wasting
Can't say where we've been
Cause it seems to me that
Nothing's what it's ever meant to be

Why can't you figure me out?

With a twist
My mind has missed
You said
That I forget

The time I'm wasting
Can't say where I've been
Catching my same old way
Slowly spin beneath the day
Your time I'm wasting
Can't say where we've been
Cause it seems to me that
Nothing's what it's ever meant to be
Your time I'm wasting
Can't say where we've been
Cause it seems to me that
No one’s ever who they’re meant to be

The Hider :
My mouth has shut not to open up,
I've kept my back to them.
Those things they say blew my ears away,
I've stopped listening.

It's something new
you should try feeling
waking up on the other side.
These walls why do we need them?
I've hidden so well...

We're drawn to be what we wish to see,
you only half believe.
Now I have strayed, falling far away.
Let me clear my lungs show you everything I have done.
Gritting my teeth to perfection.

It's something new you should try
feeling waking up on the other side.
These walls why do we need them?
I've hidden so well...

It's something new you should try
feeling waking up on the other side.
These walls why do we need them?
I've hidden so well...

A fear of forgetting my face
because what you see is not me.
They twist my bones till
I'm gone... oh so gently.

It's something new you should try
feeling waking up on the other side.
These walls why do we need them?
I've hidden so well...

It's something new you should try
feeling waking up on the other side.
These walls why do we need them?
I've hidden so well...

Moments Between Sleep :
Here the seasons don't exist a summer held in hand.
Rest while locks melt from our door again.
Still I know we speak to not forget...

We were all so undone that we couldn't think of one...
My eyes won't seem to close I don't want to see it go.
It's amazingly strange...

In this cities callowness we've lost our innocence.
Cheek to cheek but my maps are changing...
Oh don't forget.

We were all so undone that we couldn't think of one...
My eyes won't seem to close I don't want to see it go...
It's amazingly strange, how we all seem to change...
Cause we were all so undone... I'm gone.

Shooting moons from the sea wall...
Rattle the ocean till it falls...
I don't know who you'll be...

Paint It Black :
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby it just happens every day

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and must have it painted black
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you

If I look hard enough into the settin' sun
My love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

Hmm, hmm, hmm,...

I wanna see it tainted, tainted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it tainted, tainted, tainted, tainted black
Yeah!

Hmm, hmm, hmm,...

Ennui :
Cross these words right off the sheet

So you’ve become
A father of both
When did prosthesis take over?
I only wish we could recover
Recover what we’ve lost
This transitive thought reminds me of falling backwards

I only wish there was a way
A way to reverse the promise that we made
Indifference afflicts every page of earth
You’d write had you anyway
I only wish there was a way
A way to reverse the promise that we made
Evolution has changed

Tirelessly fighting for this
Becomes a coping method
And pendulum,
This falling motion has brought you close to her
To her
Perpetual

Indecision
Is destructive
But the synthesis will create again
(Will create again)

Tirelessly fighting for this
Has become a coping method
Pendulum

With willingness
With willingness to live
Take a bow
The pressure in your loves in paradigm

I only wish there was a way
A way to reverse the promise that we made
Indifference afflicts every page of earth
You’d write had you anyway
I only wish there was a way
A way to reverse the promise that we made
Evolution has changed

Let’s begin
Where love left us
Where love left us

Cities Built On Sand :
The oh-so-familiar episode of induction of what he thinks is right -
How could this be proper?
She could be the one to make this story meet its end.
Throw away the masquerade.
Ok, ok. Let's not start a dispute.
You suppose a light solution just a simple explanation to this.
And he a man would love, just love to fill your mind with his.
And don't stop believing now, and don't stop moving now,
and don't be afraid to love for the way he makes you feel.

I'll just inter my feeling. No, just stop this right now!
It is not what makes you proud and it is far from what is real.
Your opinion has always just been, not much more than amusement to him.
(Dry your eyes. This is not a time for promises)
Throw away the masquerade, and don't stop fighting till they know you.

Go ahead and act as expected. An accurate presumption I had in mind.
What'd you feel? Tell me "how could this be proper."
This is the same mishap stuck on repeat.
It's going over and over with consistency.
It's the same mistake you made many times before and will once again.
You are losing miserably.
And don't stop believing now, and don't stop moving now,
and don't be afraid to love for the way he makes you feel.

I'll just inter my feeling. No, just stop this right now!
It is not what makes you proud and it is far from what is real.
Your opinion has always just been, not much more than amusement to him.
(Dry your eyes. This is not a time for promises)
Throw away the masquerade, and don't stop fighting till they know you.

Now you're sitting at your candle-lit table...
Red dress and glass case, you're on display.
Now your customary conversation is right on track.
Are you nervous? Your lips are quivering with fear
of saying the wrong thing. Don't be afraid.

Please forget his name - His example of fear in men.
We can see you now. We can see your face in broken glass

Forced Doors On The 14th Floor :
Abandon me!
I was never one to hold out well under pressure.
I was lost. I hope you can find me.
I've got to find myself before I can move on this time.
Can we penetrate the barricades created by me?
We know our mouths aren't locked through forced doors.

I can feel the tension in your words,
screaming for me to understand what you've been thinking.
There's a cloud casting ore your head.
Can't see anything clear, you're only seeing who you were.

Too far to reach I'll say.
She's on the tips of my fingers.
(He'll bless her heart one step at a time)
Don't let her fall. There will be no return.
The burdened act which brought us to a halt
will someday make us stronger.

I can feel the tension in your words,
screaming for me to understand what you've been thinking.
There's a cloud casting ore your head.
Can't see anything clear, you're only seeing who you were.
Clouds casting over your head -
Self portraits of what you once were
She will break and shatter.
There will be no return. Hold on tight.

Let's stop everything - Exchange all that we know
It's much better without having gravity holding you down from the air.
Take action. Stand up for what you once were.
This is my time, our time to make the changes
that we want to make real. This is our time

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 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 roof he made – 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 backward, 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. [Sinking down, falling away from me – please help me]

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

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.

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

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

Clocks :
since that clocks first tick
a dark hue and fear driven lives
its only real till it ends
as the stars fall, on our heads
call the wind the theif for stealing their prayers

look at us shake the sky
pulling the whites from my eyes
and as the hands are spinning
theyre waving good-bye
a test for more, is what youre striving for
as we sleep, we walk

cant awake the ones who live this life
(not on our own)
because people are the same (they are the same)
only habitats change (habitats change)
but your starry eyes, no, they dont tell me a thing
(starring over heavy heads)

look at us shake the sky
pulling the whites from my eyes
and as the hands are spinning
theyre waving good-bye
a test for more, is what youre striving for
as we sleep, we walk

i swear, i felt you crawling under my skin
i swear, oh i swear
towers wont fit our view
forget the man in the mountains, follows you
he follows you

but youre starry eyes, no, they dont mean a thing
as we sleep, we walk (x4)

Authors :
They're letting their eyes cross...
because 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.

...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?

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.

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)

The Reification Of Notion :
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.
(who we are and what we've done, it hasn't shown)
(sit and watch as i arise)

Consider The Sea :
The tides will rise, the time will call
Wish I never saw it fall
Who we are, and what we've done
It hasn't shown

Don't tell me that this is just a reason to sleep
Give me your hands to mine and see who tried this time
And wanting nothing more than to flee these streets
(Live for me)
But this is a 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 I
(These seasick dreams)
Phony wings placid and stationary

Don't tell me that this is just a reason to sleep
Give me your hands to mine and see who tried this time
And wanting nothing more than to flee these streets
(Live for me)
But this is a life so consider, so consider the sea

The moves I like, places I won't go
In fear of never getting back


Don't tell me that this is just a reason to sleep
Give me your hands to mine and see who tried this time
And wanting nothing more than to flee these streets
(Live for me)
But this is a life so consider, so consider the sea