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SAVATAGE LYRICS
"Gutter Ballet" (1989)
1. Of Rage and War
2. Gutter Ballet
3. Temptation Revelation (instrumental)
4. When the Crowds Are Gone
5. Silk and Steel (instrumental)
6. She's in Love
7. Hounds
8. The Unholy
9. Mentally Yours
10. Summer's Rain
1. Of Rage and War
You got Lybia, you got the Russians
You got civilian planes crashing to the oceans
Airports full of terrorists
Nazis, skins, anarchists
When are they gonna learn?
Better listen to me you son of a bitch
Better disarm those missiles sleeping in the ditch
You have no goddamn right to do the things you do
The world would be a better place if we were rid of you
Of rage and war
Every country's got the bomb
The scientists are working on
Chemical weapons to melt the flesh
With no source of defense
Shoot me I'll shoot you
Like there's nothing better to do
Who's the loser in the end?
Better listen to me you son of a bitch
Better disarm those missiles sleeping in the ditch
You have no goddamn right to do the things you do
The world would be a better place if we were rid of you
Of rage and war
War broods in foreign lands
Missiles launch upon command
Islam, Lebanon, what the hell is going on?
Ambassadors, who say they try
Negotiating suicide?
Are they prepared to face the end
Of rage and war?
2. Gutter Ballet
Another sleepless night
A concrete paradise
Sirens screaming in the heat
Neon cuts the eye
As the jester sighs
At the world beneath his feet
It's a gutter ballet
Just a menagerie
Still the orchestra plays
On a dark and lonely night
To a distant fading light
Balanced on their knives
Little parts of lives
Such a strange reality
Kill the unicorn
Just to have its horn
Soon he's just a fantasy
It's a gutter ballet
Just a menagerie
Still the orchestra plays
On a dark and lonely night
To a distant fading light
The jester takes his bows
Slips into the crowd
As the actors fade away
Another death to mourn
Another child is born
Another chapter in the play
It's a gutter ballet
Just a menagerie
Still the orchestra plays
On a dark and lonely night
To a distant fading light
3. Temptation Revelation (instrumental)
4. When the Crowds Are Gone
I don't know where the years have gone
Memories can only last so long
Like faded photographs, forgotten songs
And the things I never knew
When the skin is thin, the heart shows through
Please believe me, what I tell you is true
Where's the light, turn then on again
One more night to believe and then
Another note for my requiem
A memory to carry on
The story's over when the crowds are gone
All my friends have been crucified
They made life a long suicide true
Guess we never figured out the rules
But I'm still alive and my fingers feel
I'm gonna play on till the final reel's through
And read the credits from a different view
Where's the lights, turn them on again
One more night to believe and then
Another note for my requiem
A memory to carry on
The story's over when the crowds are gone...
When the crowds are gone and I'm all alone playing a final song
Now, that the lights are gone, turn them on again
One more time for me, my friend - turn them on again
I never wanted to know, never wanted to see
I wasted my time till time wasted me
Never wanted to go always wanted to stay
'Cause the person I am are the parts that I play
So I play and I plan and hope and I scheme
To the lure of a night filled with unfinished dreams
And I'm holding on tight to a world gone astray
As they charge me for years I can no longer pay!... oh
When the lights are gone
Turn them on again...
I never wanted to know, never wanted to see
I wasted my time till time wasted me
Never wanted to go always wanted to stay
'Cause the person I am are the parts that I play!...
And the lights - turn them off, my friend
And the ghosts, well, just let them in
'Cause in the dark it's easier... to see
5. Silk and Steel (instrumental)
6. She's in Love
She likes what she sees
Starts to drop to her knees
Gazing with an appetite
Licks her lips in sheer delight
She's one of a kind
A sight for sore eyes
It's all the needs to be happy
I bet she never knew
It would taste so good
No, she's in love
I knew she's in love
Oh no, she's in love
Oh yeah, she's in love
She just loves to please
Kiss of life her specialty
Oh, how well she knows
Just how to make it grow
She's one of a kind
A sight for sore eyes
It's all she needs to be happy
I bet she never knew
It would taste so good
No, she's in love
I knew she's in love
Oh no, she's in love
Oh yeah, she's in love
7. Hounds
Sun sets on the moon
The cry 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 derranged
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 hear them in the night?
They got you in their sight
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
8. The Unholy
Oh yeah!
In distant ages long ago
Before the birth of Christ
Lived a race trapped in soul
Terror on the rise
United beyond the storm
They ruled the astral plane
No one could stop them
They wouldn't fall
In a while they would soon reign
A step beyond the grave
Visions so insane
They opened the gates of Hell
Calling, calling
Unholy light is calling
Faster, faster
Prelude for disaster
Get straight
But no, here's your prize
Oh yeah, they're unholy
Raging spirits kept from the light
Enslaved in worlds of doom
Marching armies to the darker side
The devil's black platoon
Torches raised no mercy
Victory was theirs
Such was life
In the unholy years
Step beyond the grave
A vision so insane
They opened the gates of Hell
Calling, calling
Unholy light is calling
Faster, faster
Prelude for disaster
Get straight
But no, here's your prize
They're unholy
Oh yeah
They're unholy
They're unholy
No!
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
Unholy
9. Mentally Yours
Timmy went out to play
With the friends he made
Why did they send him away?
He drove his mommy mad
His daddy, he ran
They didn't understand
Now he gazes his cold nights through
Reliving all of the things he will do
If he only had another chance
If that was all he had
His tension life, he beats the wife
Doused the cat with gasoline
He's rather try the other side
He just has to get away
That's when it all began
Timmy lost his mind
Was just a matter of time
Before he went crazy
Mentally yours
I'm mentally yours...
Running wild cause that's his style
Can't be held by any cage
Crossed the line the final time
Cause tonight he takes his stage
That's when it all began
Timmy lost his mind
Was just a matter of time
Before he went crazy
No one cried when Timmy died
Mentally yours
I'm mentally yours...
10. Summer's Rain
Standing alone in a dream
Where nothing is real
But, oh, how real it feels
There were times I lost my way
I was alone, lost in a haze
Where are you now?
I'll find you somehow
And do I stand alone
Like a fool out in the rain
Hanging on somehow
To an ancient vow
Where there's nothing left to gain
And do you know
How it feels inside?
To be all alone
A fool and his pride
Scars are the wounds that we show
Time only heals when you're letting go
Many right I'd lay awake
Tossing and turning till daybreak
Where are you now?
I'll find you somehow
And do I stand alone
Like a fool out in the rain
Hanging on somehow
To an ancient vow
Where there's nothing left to gain
And do you know
How it feels inside?
To be all alone
A fool and his pride
In a summer's rain...
Sometimes you got to believe
Beyond yesterday
I'm gonna find my way
In the summer rain...
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