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SAVATAGE LYRICS
"Handful of Rain" (1994)
1. Taunting Cobras
2. Handful of Rain
3. Chance
4. Stare Into the Sun
5. Castles Burning
6. Visions
7. Watching You Fall
8. Nothing's Going On
9. Symmetry
10. Alone You Breathe
1. Taunting Cobras
Hey, you! She's gonna get you
If you go walking by this corner slow
Don't think she's gonna let you leave
Just because you want to go
Boy, you ain't seen nothing yet
It's a long train of regret
Puppets get no second chance
Pull that string, they gotta dance
Parellel addiction is a double crucifixion
When you're always out there feeding your head
Always channel surfing cause your brain it isn't working
When you're looking for that moment just remember
Don't look, don't stray
Don't talk it over!
No time, no way
Listen to me, I'm cold sober
You're just out there
Taunting cobras
Hey, you! Who's gonna warn you
When it's something you don't want to know?
Don't think, it won't deform you
Twist your mind, then let it go
Boy, you ain't seen nothing yet
It's a long train of regret
Puppets get no second chance
Pull that string, they gotta dance
Welcome to the prison
Let me tell ya what you're missing
I've been coming here for nearly a year
Out there was my corner 'till I came in for a water
Mixed with whiskey and a chaser of sideways glances
Don't look, don't stray
Don't talk it over!
No time, no way
Listen to me, I'm cold sober
You're just out there
Taunting cobras
2. Handful of Rain
The night is growing dark
From somewhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
And always takes you in
The barmaid walks on over
And pours another round
For a lost soul at the corner
Who prays he's never found
And the mind goes numb
'Till it's feeling no pain
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain!
Wash your women in your whiskey
When your future's in the past
And you're staring up at heaven
From the bottom of a glass
And you need some insulation
From the years you've had and lost
And you feel the perspiration
As you're adding up the cost
And the night rolls on
Like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out
There's a land beyond the living
There's a land beyond the dead
If it's true that God's forgiving
Of the lives that we have led
In the distance there's a thunder
And the air is thick and warm
And the patrons watch with wonder
The approaching of the storm
And the night rolls on
Like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain
All right
There's an old man in the corner
And he's smoking all the time
And the smoke is drifting upward
And it's twisting in my...
Twisting in my mind, my mind
The whiskey's getting deeper
And I use it like a moat
There's a blues man in the distance
And he's lost inside his...
Lost inside his note, his note, his note!
The night is growing dark
From somewhere deep within
It shelters like an ark
That always takes you in
And the night rolls on
Like a slow moving train
And the soul cries out
For a handful of rain
3. Chance
He was standing all alone
Trying to find the words to say
When every prayer he ever prayed was gone
And the dreams he's never owned
Are still safely tucked away
Until tomorrow he just carries on
Carries on
Carries on
Carries on
See the devil on the streets at night
See him running in the pouring rain
See him grinning 'neath a twisted light
I'll be back again!
See the people standing in a row
See them nodding like a field of grain
No one sees the sickle though
Coming 'cross the plain!
And this he knows, if nothing more
That waiting in the dark like destiny
Are those who kiss the dogs of war?
And there is no tomorrow, no tomorrow
Take a chance
Take a, take a chance, yeah
See the devil, he is so intense
See the devil go and change his name
What's the going price of innocence
It can't be the same!
Is it dark when the moon is down
Is it dark with a single flame
If there's glass falling all around
I am not to blame!
And this he knows, if nothing more
That waiting in the dark like destiny
Are those who kiss the dogs of war?
And there is no tomorrow, no tomorrow
Take a chance
Take a, take a chance, yeah
Take a chance
Take a, take a chance, oh yeah
Burn the night away
Burn the night away
Burn the night...
Pictures at an exhibition
Played as he stood in his trance
Staring at his inhibitions
All the time believing
That it now came down to
Nothing but this chance
Chance
Chance
Chance
I fear you, your silence, your blindness
See what you want to see
In darkness one kindness, one moment
Tell me what you believe
I believe in nothing
Never really had to
In regards to your life
Rumors that are not true
Who's defending evil
Surely never I
Who would be the witness
Should you chance to die
Father, can you hear me?
This is not how it was meant to be
I am safe and so are you
As for the other's destiny
I believe that situations
All depend on circumstance
Look away
Look away
Pictures at an exhibition
Played as he stood in his trace
Staring at his inhabitions
All the time believing
That it now came down to
Nothing but this chance
Chance
Chance
Chance
4. Stare Into the Sun
He never closed his eyes
Or so we theorized
But we were young and bold
And he was mostly old
And his time nearly done
He came back from a war
On some forgotten shore
And sat and watched the world
And never said a word
And so I asked for one
Watching, waiting
Old man tell me what have we become
Anticipating
All the hating that was yet undone
He turned around and stared into the sun
He fought for things so clear
And never thought he'd fear
A brother or his child
Or killing having style
Watch the colors run
Watching, waiting
Old man tell me what have we become, oh yeah
Anticipating
All the hating that was yet undone
He turned around and stared into the sun
And now he only hears
And his eyes they only tear
So tread most carefully
For he's still listening
Watch the colors run
Watching, waiting
Old man tell me what have we become, oh yeah, yeah
Anticipating
All the hating that was yet undone
He turned around and stared into the sun
5. Castles Burning
In the dark and bleeding
With the shadows seething
There he stands alone
Fools and faith conspire
Questions of desire
That they never owned
Kings without their armor
Men without their honor
Spit out desecration
Pieces of a nation
Buried in the ground
Screams without a sound
Burn the castle down...
In the end the children cried
That the jackal surely lied
When he said please listen all
Do not look behind these walls
Coffins drowned in roses
And the war he chose is
Fought inside the mind
Death becomes compelling
When the soul's for selling
And the world is blind
In the maze he wanders
Looks about and ponders
Shadows mock and taunt him
And the ghosts that haunt him
Chain him to the ground
Screams without a sound
Burn the castle down...
In the end the children cried
That the jackal surely lied
When he said please listen all
Do not look behind these walls
And does the pendulum toll
Against the side of the soul
When he feels the final moment is near
Do you rage 'gainst the dark
Try to re-write the part
Turn around and face what you fear
What you fear! Oh, what you fear
He's seen it all before
Close your eyes and close the door
And the dreams that nights embrace
Slowly leave without a trace
6. Visions
7. Watching You Fall
There in the dark there's a child and she's waiting
Lost in the maze of a fait accompli
Is it a crime to be just hesitating
While we're pretending that we never see?
On a TV mounted on the wall
From this distance I can see it all
And I've been out here watching you
Watching you fall!, yeah
Is there a trick to the art of not feeling
Safe in our world while another's child bleeds?
Praying that God won't demand a redealing
Of cards we have held and pretend you don't need
Don't need
On a TV mounted on the wall
From this distance I can see it all
And I've been out here watching you
Watching you fall!, yeah
Better not think about it
Anytime we'll start to doubt it
Christ has risen
Keep him hidden
God forbid he sees
It's not that we lack the vision
Only just a quick desision
Who will blame us?
Rules restrain us
It's all in history
So close my eyes and pretend I am sleeping
Avoiding the chance that you'll visit my dreams
On a TV mounted on the wall
From this distance I can see it all
And I've been out here watching you...
Watching you fall!, yeah
8. Nothing's Going On
Cheshire cat done rip you soul
Don't turn your back
Don't turn your back
Car rolls by, move real slow
Fade it to black
Fade it to black
But nothing's going on
Nothing's going on...
Twisted nerves on shifting feet
Taking up slack
Taking up slack
Gone too far, can't retreat
Cover your tracks
Cover your tracks
Nothing's going on...
She's no queen of hearts
But she's good to me
Bring her coffin roses
Brush her thorns and
Let it bleed
Just a hardcore dancer
Puppet on a string
One crippled romancer
Strung so tight
Gotta watch her swing
Nothing's going on...
9. Symmetry
So would you tell me now, are life and death a symmetry?
Balanced on scales, either side chosen
And could these moments balance out against eternity?
Promise inferred, words never spoken
My life is burning
Could you read by the light
Letters I've written, never to follow
Poets and madmen all defy reason
Still in my mind I know
I want to live my life with you
Dying hard
Play the whole hand 'til it's through
Dying hard
Dying hard
Dying hard
Dying hard
And in your arctic night you contemplate eternity
Walking on water, frozen in silence
And in that moment would you turn around and turn to me
Laughing away night's darker tyrants
My life is burning
Could you read by the light
Letters I've written, never to follow
Poets and madmen all defy reason
Still in my mind I know
I want to live my life with you
Dying hard
Play the whole hand 'til it's through
Dying hard
Dying hard
Dying hard
Dying hard
Some nights I spend alone inside my head
For it's better than losing it
And if you want to turn it all around
It's your life, you're choosing it
I want to live my life with you
Dying hard
Play the whole hand 'til it's through
Dying hard
Dying hard
Dying hard
Dying hard
10. Alone You Breathe
You were never one for waiting
Still I always thought you'd wait for me
And have you from your dreams awakened
And from where you are what do you see
Which of us is now in exile
Which in need of amnesty
Are you now but an illusion?
In my mind alone you breathe
You believed in things that I will never know
You were out there drowning but it never showed
'Til inside a rainswept night you just let go
You've thrown it all away
And now we'll never see
The ending to the play
The grand design, the final line
And what was meant to be
In the dark a distant runner
Now has disappeared into the night
Leaving us to stand and wonder
Staring from this end into your life
You believed in things that I will never know
You were out there drowning but it never showed
'Til inside a rainswept night you just let go
You've thrown it all away
And now we'll never see
The ending to the play
The grand design, the final line
And what was meant to be
And if this is all illusion
Nothing more than pure delusion
Clinging to a fading fantasy
Like Icarus who heeds the calling
Of a sun but now is falling
As the feathers of his life fall free
Can you see? See?, yeah
Tomorrow and after
You tell me what am I to do
I stand here believing
That in the dark there is a clue
Perhaps inside this midnight sky
Perhaps tomorrow's newborn eyes
Or could it be, we'll never know
And after all this was the show
What am I to do?
Gotta get back
Gotta get back
Gotta get back
What am I to do?
Gotta get back
Gotta get back
Gotta get back
What am I to do?
Standing on a dream isn't what it seems
Could we then reclaim a dream refused
Knowing what we know could we let it go
Realizing that all the years are used
Tomorrow and after
You tell me what am I to do
I stand here believing
That in the dark there is a clue
I am the way, I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes, I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Tomorrow and after
You tell me what am I to do
I stand here believing
That in the dark there is a clue
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