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SAVATAGE LYRICS
"Doesn't Matter Anyway" (1995 EP)
1. Doesn't Matter Anyway
2. Mozart and Madness
3. Edge of Thorns (live in Japan '94)
4. Jesus Saves (live in Japan '94)
5. Sleep (acoustic version)
6. The Dungeons Are Calling (from Final Bell)
7. Hounds (from Final Bell)
8. Not What You See (radio edit)
1. Doesn't Matter Anyway
It don't matter what you said
In the mind of someone, you are now dead
What makes it bad is they're living next door
So you'll need some weapons? That's what I'm here for!
Seems you got us a war
AK-47, Tomcat, F-11 hardly ever used, tell me what am I bid?
You on the back wall, this is it last call
Better buy 'em now or you'll wish that you did
You'll wish that you did
(chorus)
I know, you know, in this world you gotta pay
It's all for sale, what's your side? You couldn't say...
No...doesn't matter anyway
Claymore land mines, anti-personnel kind
Good for lining borders and they're easy to hide
Bury 'em in the ground, only one way they're found
Another fine product we deliver with pride
Swing a deal on the side
M-1's, ammo too - Stinger missiles got a few
Better get 'em now, while we got 'em in store
Good for a last stand, straight out of Afghanistan
If you never use 'em, you can save 'em till your next civil war
Cause that's what they're for
(chorus)
I know, you know, in this world you gotta pay
It's all for sale, what's your side? You couldn't say...
Hmmm, doesn't matter anyway
(solo)
Whoa, yeah!
(chorus)
I know, you know, in this world you gotta pay
It's all for sale, what's your side? You couldn't say...
No...doesn't matter anyway
(laugh)
Ow!
(lead break)
No!
Doesn't matter anyway
Doesn't matter anyway
No! No! No! No! No! Ow!
(chorus)
I know, you know, in this world you gotta pay
It's all for sale, what's your side? You couldn't say...
Aaaaah...doesn't matter anyway
2. Mozart and Madness
3. Edge of Thorns (live in Japan '94)
An offering of reasons
We put them all away
A covering of treasons
That one by one we let slip away
A solitary dancer
So lost upon her stage
I have seen you on the edge of dawn
Felt you there before you were born
Balanced your dreams upon the edge of thorns
But I don't think about you anymore
A study made of winter
Of summers long ago
And dreams that use to glitter
Safely now hidden under snow
And so we end this chapter
And let the stage lights fade
I have seen you on the edge of dawn
Felt you there before you were born
Balanced your dreams upon the edge of thorns
But I don't think about you anymore
4. Jesus Saves (live in Japan '94)
[Intro to Jesus saves spoken by the bum
"Hey, man, got a quarter?
You ain't got nothin' that's ok man, that's ok.
God bless you anyway. Here, I hope I didn't scare you or nothing like that. I, I ain't no bum or nothing
like that. Yeah, I I use to live uptown once once before too you know. No, no, I did I did really. Use to
come down here and look at all the characters. Never thought I'd be one of them though. Characters, man a
lot of characters.
He he, you got a minute, you got a minute, let me tell you a story about this friend of mine. D.T. Jesus
use to stand for Down Town Jesus. He use to sell drugs and stuff down there, and they called him - that's
why we use to call him DeTox. He was one character, one character that made it outa here.
Let me tell you about him."]
Jesus was a talker
Just an out-of-place New Yorker
He hung out on the boulevard
He was sellin' nickel candies
He was saving up all his quarters
Bought himself a cheap guitar
Started playin' bars
Kids came in their cars
Hear them shouting at the stage
Jesus saves
Jesus saves
Yes, he does
Jesus saves
You know, Jesus he started changin'
Things got really strange
He saw his tee shirts everywhere
He started missing shows
The band came down to blows
But Jesus he just didn't care
Things got out of hand
And so he quit the band
Still the critics they would rave
Jesus saves
Jesus saves
Yes, he does
Jesus saves
So the dice were cast
Today become the past
Jesus just disappeared
He was headed for New York
Or so his little label thought
And there he gave away the years
Last seen drinking wine
Beneath a flashing sign
Promising salvation to strays
Jesus saves
Jesus saves
Yes, he does
Jesus saves
Hear him cut through the night
On those late night radio waves
Jesus saves
Yes, he does
Jesus saves
5. Sleep (acoustic version)
Hey there you
Way out there in the distance
Can you hear me?
Are you there?
I know it's late
So please forgive my persistence
But I'm hanging
Do you care?
So lay back, call off the attack
Cause if you look deep, dreams are nothing that I lack
And all I seek, a final chance to speak
And I would let the whole thing keep if I could just sleep
Hey there you
Way out there could you show me
Just a signal... or a sign?
That after all
All these years that you know me
And I'm not just... killing time
So lay back, call off the attack
Cause if you look deep, dreams are nothing that I lack
And all I seek, a final chance to speak
And I would let the whole thing keep if I could just sleep
And as I lay there at night
Building castles in the air
Out of alibis and all those little lies
And then I look inside
And pray that I don't care
...I don't care...
Hey there you
Way out there in the distance
6. The Dungeons Are Calling (from Final Bell)
Down in the dungeons
Of concrete and terror
Candles light the way
Can you hear me say?
The dungeons are calling
The dungeons are calling for me
I can't escape
This den must be hell
Pleasures of freedom
Denied me in this cell
I steal from my friends
Victims of my pain
Its nearing the end
I live like the dead
The dungeons are calling
Calling for me--oh!
The dungeons are calling
The rack waits for me
Down in the dungeons
I'm locked away
Suicide ride
I take everday
Prisoner in hell
Victim in pain
The dungeons are calling for me
None of my friends
Want to come out and play
They think i'm crazy
But what can i say?
Prisoner in hell
Victim in pain
It's nearing the end
I live like the dead
The dungeons are calling
Calling for me
The dungeons are calling
The rack waits for me
7. Hounds (from Final Bell)
Sun sets on the moor
The cries of the hounds live forevermore
Stalking the night
They roam the countryside till morning's light
Do you hear the hounds they call
Scan the dark eyes aglow
Through the bitter rain and cold
They hunt you down
Hunt you down
They run wild and free
Across the fields and valleys of their native land
Nature's beasts deranged
Beyond belief no one understands
Do you hear the hounds they call
Scan the dark eyes aglow
Through the bitter rain and cold
They hunt you down
Hunt you down
Can you see them in the night
They've got you in their sight
Can you hear the hounds they call
Scan the dark eyes aglow
Through the bitter rain and cold
They hunt you down
Hunt you down
8. Not What You See (radio edit)
No life's so short it can't turn around
You can't spend your life living underground
For from above you don't hear a sound
And I'm out here, waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
But I know that it's all that you see
No life's so short that it never learns
No flame so small that it never burns
No page so sure that it never turns
And I'm out here, waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
But I know that it's all that you see
(bridge)
Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
Tell me if you win would it show - in a thousand years, who would know?
As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground
(simultaneously)
Can you live your life in a day I've been waiting
Putting every moment in play?
Never hear a word that they say I don't understand what you want me to be
As the wheels go around
Tell me if you win would it show It's the dark you're hating
In a thousand years, who would know?
As a million lives come and go It's not who I am, but it is what you see
On this same piece of ground
(simultaneously)
1:
I've been waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating
It's not who I am, but it is what you see
2:
/Can you live your life in a day
Putting every moment in play?
/Never hear a word that they say
As the wheels go around
/Tell me if you win would it show
In a thousand years, who would know?
/As a million lives come and go
On this same piece of ground
3:
/Tell me would you really want to
See me leave this night without you
/Would you ever look about you
Wondering where we might be
/New York is so far away now
Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow
/Only dreams from here but somehow
One day that world we will see
(simultaneously again, except substitute this for stanza 1 and clip last three syllables of the last line of stanzas 2 and 3)
1:
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand...
(together, immediately)
...what I see.
(solo)
(coda)
I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance
Our lives are this moment, the music - the dance
And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries
I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see
You're all that I see
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