Savatage

SIRENS

Release Date: 1983-04-11

Sirens LYRICS
Holocaust LYRICS
I Believe LYRICS
Rage LYRICS
On The Run LYRICS
Twisted Little Sister LYRICS
Living For The Night LYRICS
Scream Murder LYRICS
Out On The Streets LYRICS

The Dungeons Are Calling

Release Date: 1984-03-22

The Dungeons Are Calling LYRICS
By The Grace Of The Witch LYRICS
Visions LYRICS
Midas Knight LYRICS
City Beneath The Surface LYRICS
The Whip LYRICS

Power of the Night

Release Date: 1985-05-20

Power Of The Night LYRICS
Unusual LYRICS
Warriors LYRICS
Necrophilia LYRICS
Washed Out LYRICS
Hard for Love LYRICS
Fountain Of Youth LYRICS
Skull Session LYRICS
Stuck On You LYRICS
In the Dreams LYRICS

Fight for the Rock

Release Date: 1986-06-30

Fight For The Rock LYRICS
Out On The Streets LYRICS
Crying For Love LYRICS
Day After Day LYRICS
The Edge Of Midnight LYRICS
Hyde LYRICS
Lady In Disguise LYRICS
She’s Only Rock ‘N Roll LYRICS
Wishing Well LYRICS
Red Light Paradise LYRICS

Hall of the Mountain King

Release Date: 1987-09-28

24 Hours Ago LYRICS
Beyond The Doors Of The Dark LYRICS
Legions LYRICS
Strange Wings LYRICS
Prelude To Madness (Instrumental)
Hall Of The Mountain King LYRICS
The Price You Pay LYRICS
White Witch LYRICS
Last Dawn (Instrumental)
Devastation LYRICS

Gutter Ballet

Release Date: 1989-12-01

Of Rage And War LYRICS
Gutter Ballet LYRICS
Temptation Revelation (Instrumental)
When The Crowds Are Gone LYRICS
Silk And Steel (Instrumental)
She’s In Love LYRICS
Hounds LYRICS
The Unholy LYRICS
Mentally Yours LYRICS
Summer’s Rain LYRICS
Thorazine Shuffle LYRICS

Streets

Release Date: 1991-10-04

Streets LYRICS
Jesus Saves LYRICS
Tonight He Grins Again LYRICS
Strange Reality LYRICS
A Little Too Far LYRICS
You’re Alive LYRICS
Sammy And Tex LYRICS
St. Patrick’s LYRICS
Can You Hear Me Now LYRICS
New York City Don’t Mean LYRICS
Ghost In The Ruins LYRICS
If I Go Away LYRICS
Agony And Ecstasy LYRICS
Heal My Soul LYRICS
Somewhere In Time LYRICS
Believe LYRICS

Edge of Thorns

Release Date: 1993-04-06

Edge Of Thorns LYRICS
He Carves His Stone LYRICS
Lights Out LYRICS
Skraggy’s Tomb LYRICS
Labyrinths (Instrumental)
Follow Me LYRICS
Exit Music (Instrumental)
Degree Of Sanity LYRICS
Conversion Piece LYRICS
All That I Bleed LYRICS
Damien LYRICS
Miles Away LYRICS
Sleep LYRICS

Handful of Rain

Release Date: 1994-08-16

Taunting Cobras LYRICS
Handful Of Rain LYRICS
Chance LYRICS
Stare Into The Sun LYRICS
Castles Burning LYRICS
Visions (Instrumental)
Watching You Fall LYRICS
Nothing’s Going On LYRICS
Symmetry LYRICS
Alone You Breathe LYRICS

Dead Winter Dead

Release Date: 1995-10-24

Overture (Instrumental)
Sarajevo LYRICS
This Is The Time LYRICS
I Am LYRICS
Starlight LYRICS
Doesn’t Matter Anyway LYRICS
This Isn’t What We Meant LYRICS
Mozart And Madness (Instrumental)
Dead Winter Dead LYRICS
One Child LYRICS
Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) (Instrumental)
Not What You See LYRICS

The Wake of Magellan

Release Date: 1997-09-15

The Ocean (Instrumental)
Welcome LYRICS
Turns To Me LYRICS
Morning Sun LYRICS
Another Way LYRICS
Blackjack Guillotine LYRICS
Paragons Of Innocence LYRICS
Complaint In The System LYRICS
Underture (Instrumental)
The Wake Of Magellan LYRICS
Anymore LYRICS
The Storm (Instrumental)
The Hourglass LYRICS

Poets and Madmen

Release Date: 2001-03-05

Stay With Me Awhile LYRICS
There In The Silence LYRICS
Commisar LYRICS
I Seek Power LYRICS
Drive LYRICS
Morphine Child LYRICS
The Rumor LYRICS
Man In The Mirror LYRICS
Surrender LYRICS
Awaken LYRICS
Back to a Reason LYRICS

Japan Live ’94

Release Date: 1995-10-09

Taunting Cobras LYRICS
Edge Of Thorns LYRICS
Chance LYRICS
Conversion Piece LYRICS
Nothing’s Going On LYRICS
He Carves His Stone LYRICS
Jesus Saves LYRICS
Watching You Fall LYRICS
Castles Burning LYRICS
All That I Bleed LYRICS
Stare Into The Sun LYRICS
Damien LYRICS
Handful of Rain LYRICS
Sirens LYRICS
Gutter Ballet LYRICS
Hall Of The Mountain King LYRICS

Final Bell/ Ghost in the Ruins

Release Date: 1995-12-15

City Beneath The Surface LYRICS
24 Hours Ago LYRICS
Legions LYRICS
Strange Wings LYRICS
Gutter Ballet LYRICS
When The Crowds Are Gone LYRICS
Of Rage And War LYRICS
The Dungeons Are Calling LYRICS
Sirens LYRICS
Hounds LYRICS
Criss Oliva Guitar Solo
Hall Of The Mountain King LYRICS
Post Script (Instrumental)

One Child

One child stood before the altar
One child stood out in the rain
One child spent his time imagining
And I don’t believe he’s coming home again, home again, home a…

(chorus)
Right there in the earth, I’ve been drawing a line
I’m digging it deep, don’t know if I’ll find
A tunnel out so we all can be saved
If not, just take this earth and bury me, for this will be my grave

One child hid inside the darkness
One child never said a thing
One child closed his eyes and disappeared
But at night I still can hear him whispering, whispering, whisper…

(lead break/coda)
I will believe in you
If you still want me to
Or tell me I’m on my own
There on the other side
Tell me the Pilate’s died
And we’re no longer alone

(bridge)
Take your answers and your promises, believe me I don’t care
I have held on to your words until I found them only air
What good are your promises if you can always take them back?
Still, I hang on every word till my hands are bleeding

(coda)
I will believe in you
If you still want me to
Or tell me I’m on my own
There on the other side
Tell me the Pilate’s died
And we’re no longer alone

(simultaneously)

I will believe in you
If you still want me to
Or tell me I’m on my own
There on the other side
Tell me the Pilate’s died
And we’re no longer alone

We had no choice but to stay and follow
We have nothing left except tomorrow
We have nothing left except what will be
What we need here are some real decisions
While you only offer mindless visions
Visions that nobody else here can see

(simultaneously) / = where stanza 1 lines begin in comparison to other stanzas

1:
We’re on our own
We’re on our own
We’re on our own
We’re on our…

2:
/I will believe in you
If you still want me to
/Or tell me I’m on my own
/There on the other side
Tell me the Pilate’s died
/And we’re no longer a…

3:
/We had no choice but to stay and follow
We have nothing left except tomorrow
/We have nothing left except what will be
/What we need here are some real decisions
While you only offer mindless visions
/Visions that nobody else here can…

(all together)
I will believe in you
If you still want me to
Or tell me I’m on my own
There on the other side
Tell me the Pilate’s died
And we’re no longer a…

The Hourglass

Standing alone by the edge of a river
He’s traded his life for a glass full of tears
The bargain was quick for one’s life is less dearer
When the sand’s running out and the ending is near

The ending is near
The ending is near
The ending is…
*
The man climbed aboard and set sail for the ocean
He put on the mast all the canvas she’d take
Then laid himself down on the deck neath the tiller
The ship was his coffin this moment his wake

Runaway reasons
Runaway seasons
Time is a treason
That I give back to you now

The wind touched the sail and the ship moved the ocean
The wind from the storm set the course she would take
From a journey to nowhere towards a soul on the ocean
From the wake of magellan to magellan’s wake

Runaway reasons
Runaway seasons
Everything in it
Hours and minutes
You take tomorrow
Because it means nothing
To me
To me
To …

In the dark he heard a whisper
Asking him to understand
In the desert look for water
On the ocean look for land

And there in the waves
Was a man in his grave
That he saw in the night
‘Tween the flashes of light
And he
Could not be there

And all he had prayed
Or had given away
He now found to be wrong
In the grip of the storm
And he
Could not be there

Could you keep our lives together
Safely back onto the shore
Could you grant this last illusion
Only this and nothing more

And all at once the heavens bled their fire
The anchor broke the chains they flew away
And suddenly the waves were reaching higher
And in the dark I thought I heard them say

Could you keep our lives together
Safely back onto the shore
Could you grant this last illusion
Only this and nothing more

Everything I ever had for one more tomorrow
Everything I ever had for just one more night
And if this is not to be I pray could I borrow
Just another final hour onto my life

Did you ever really want to
Did you ever really want to

Lord, tell me how it will be
Lord, tell me how it will be

Standing once more by a boat on a river
He pushes it off while he stays on the land
And seeing the hourglass now so much clearer
Which someone had refilled by hand

And somewhere that boat’s now adrift on the ocean
The mast at full sail and there’s no one on board
The hourglass no longer sits by the ocean
Only his footprints all alone on the shore
And soon they’re no more
No more
No more