Water has many moods, and many faces. You’re never quite sure what lies beneath. It nearly always causes one to change direction, either to seek a crossing-point, or journey along the banks. It’s always a divide.
Water doesn’t care what you think, or what you think you know.
Marilyn Reesor helped me with a line in the chorus – thanks. Where would anyone be without friends, through deep water and shallow…?
Depth Perception ©2004 Dave Hadfield
(Dm) C Dm
Dark reflection… light rejection.
C Am Dm
Is it water deep, or is it shallow?
C Dm
No impression… imperception.
Bb—Am Dm [Bb-Am as bar chords]
Will you lead, or will you follow?
Dm C Dm
Do you dance in the middle of the path ahead,
F G
As you seek to find your way?
Dm C Dm
Take a lot, take a little — there’s enough for all,
F C G [hold]
For you walk it every day.
Dm C Dm
Do you cross where the river runs fast and deep,
F G
Or the place where the water is wide?
F G
Do you falter…. in your stride?
Dm
Depth perception.
Do you drive like the devil was at your back,
Or slow like the devil’s ahead?
Is it rough, is it level — like a plain of glass,
Or a wave that breaks instead?
Is the road like an arrow, straight and true
Or does perhaps it curve?
Do you wander…. do you swerve?
Depth perception.
Are you light as a feather in a summer breeze,
Or perhaps as heavy as clay?
Are you free of the tether or harness-broke,
And hardly struggle each day.
Are the joke and the riddle quite clear to all?
Is there laughter in your sleep?
Do you stumble… do you weep?
Depth perception.