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SAVATAGE LYRICS
"Poets and Madmen" (2001)
1. Stay With Me Awhile
2. There in the Silence
3. Commissar
4. I Seek Power
5. Drive
6. Morphine Child
7. The Rumor
8. Man in the Mirror
9. Surrender
10. Awaken
11. Back to Reason
1. Stay With Me Awhile
Somewhere in this universe of lost forgotten dreams
The silence weaves a tapestry of once enchanted themes
The shadows listen carefully and question what it means
For stories have lives of their own
But what good's a story whose end is unknown
Stay with me
For the little night that's left to be
For a moment in a memory
That time cannot defile
Stay with me
Where the night still offers amnesty
And the ending is still yet to be tomorrow's unborn child
And stay with me awhile
The darkness covers everything and carefully watches all
It hides behind the storm's lightning and cushions every fall
And everything it witnesses it always can recall
Like things that the heart can regret
Bury in time and then try to forget
Stay with me
For the little night that's left to be
For a moment in a memory
That time cannot defile
Stay with me
While the night still offers amnesty
And the ending is still yet to be tomorrow's unborn child
And stay with me awhile
2. There in the Silence
Here on this night
Behind walls made of stone
Where no one can enter and
The dark dreams alone
But now someone's entered
The walls are defied
The shadows they watched
While the dark sympathized
But there in the silence
There in the silence
There in the silence...
Something hides
Something lies
Something dies...
Something breathes
The mind can imagine
The dark can deceive
And here on this night
Together they weave
A shadow's repentance
A forgotten life
All brought together
In the mercy of night
But there in the silence
There in the silence
There in the silence...
Something hides
Something lies
Something dies...
Something breathes
3. Commissar
Do you see, commissar?
The night is darker
Do you think, commissar?
Their dreams are starker
Do you hear, commissar?
The night is breathing
Could it be, commissar?
We should be leaving
Now before the curtain
Does come crashing down
Do you hear, commissar?
The night is silent
Do you think, commissar?
It is defiance
Do you see, commissar?
The mob has faces
Could it be, commissar?
The dark embraces
All as darkness will
And in that dark we'll drown
Cities and towns, we've torn them down
And all we've found are relics in a cemetery
But never fear, I will stay near
And to the dark I will be your emissary
Knights on horse back
Bishops pacing
All are losing ground
The pawn is now a queen
He's moved across the board unseen
The move is down
I believe that we've intrigued for far to long
But now I think the plot has ended
A quick retreat into the street
Admit defeat and hope our moves will be defended
Across their throats
The blade does wander
They die without a sound
Who'd have thought we'd meet
As bones beneath the dragons feet
The wall is down
4. I Seek Power
As the steam from the street starts to rise
The gutter whispers
That the moon like a child has arrived
The dark has missed her
And the light that she lends is a guide
Among her shadows
Like the ghost from the past that survive
And you ask me now
What is my intent?
Here among the ruins
Cloaked in false pretence
And how do I belong?
I seek power
Where the power remains
I seek power
In the back of your brain
How will you see me
If you don't know where I hide?
How will you bleed me
If I am somewhere inside?
In the ashes of empires lost
A distant warning
On the danger of ignoring cost
And children mourning
As the memories cloud in our mind
The past can glitter
And so it has been designed
I know every lie
That the mind invents
Though they're well disguised
And cloaked in innocence
And how do I belong?
I seek power
Where the power remains
I seek power
Like the kiss of cocaine
I seek power
As the darkness descends
I seek power
And I'll have it again...
I seek power
Where the power remains
I seek power
Like the kiss of cocaine
I seek power
When it's not always wise
I seek power
For the power survives
5. Drive
Wheels keep turning
Blind desires
Core ambition
Never tires
Got an engine
Got intentions
No dissensions
Nothing to hide
Gotta' mission
Street munitions
Any road block
I believe
And I believe
And I believe
And I believe
I'll run it
You'll know I'll run it
Road side tyrants
Revolution
Speed is silent
Absolution
Got reactions
Got attractions
Each infraction
We're gonna' die
Got redemption
Fools intentions
Any road block
I believe
And I believe
And I believe
And I believe
I'll run it
You'll know I'll run it...
6. Morphine Child
There's a thief on a summer's night
Across an ocean
Who sees another's life fading away
And of this life he writes
Without emotion
Then pushes it from sight
Somewhere faraway
To a distant land
Every tear betrayed
And never makes
And never makes
And never makes
And never makes a stand
Never makes a stand
Lord, there's something wrong
Never makes a stand
Could a star's forgotten light
A child's devotion
Embrace eternal night in shallow graves
As we watch from distant heights
No breath or motion
Still every ghost must haunt in its own way
Sleep beneath my dreams
Safe within my hands
Where I never under...
Never under...
Never under...
Never understand
Never understand
Lord, there's something wrong
Never understand
No one remembers
No one denies
No one asks questions
No one replies
Here nothing enters
Nothing departs
Here nothing's ended
If nothing starts
In your life could you carry on?
Could you never think about it
Till in time you start to doubt it?
Then you close your eyes
Is it really gone?
How in truth can you defend her
If you're really not remembering?
No regrets if you just forget
If a memory is lenient
You can find it most convenient
So you let it fade
Till it's very vague
Just a silhouette of shadows
But the shadows are still lingering
Still I hold you there
With your endless stare
I'm too old to be living this
Lived to long to be given this
Can our God be forgiving this?
I had a light that shined
Across my mind
Rarely see it any more
Now it is mostly dark
Accept for sparks
Can't remember what they're for
I am the morphine child
The dream defiled
The never ending metaphor
I am the wizard Oz
Result and cause
Never look behind that door
Cantations
Cantations
Cantations
Cantations
Never listen to the crowd before me
Never listen to the self ordained
Never really wanted to believe it any way
Time is fading
Night is calling
I am on my way
Turn around, turn around
Turn around, turn around
Time is fading
Night is calling
I am on my...
7. The Rumor
Jesus
What's the reason
For these scars that will never heal?
Hearts that no longer feel?
Eyes that can no longer see?
Jesus
What's the reason
For this child that will not survive
With all her dreams inside?
Could she mean nothing to thee?
And Jesus please tell me if you can recall
Just where you were when this sparrow did fall?
Jesus
What's the reason
Every tear isn't weighed the same?
Could you have died in vain
If we have short memories?
And Jesus would you then come down from your cross
Return every nail and say we are lost?
And in the dark we seek your silent company
For each hope that arrives and fades from memory
Still after all this time our loss you won't concede
For in the dead of night the rumor is
Your hands they still bleed
Still bleed
Still bleed
Still bleed
And Jesus
It would seem then
That somehow you still trust
You have more faith than us
Perhaps that is how it should be
8. Man in the Mirror
There's a man that I used to know
And sometimes he still visits with me
When it's late and the alcohol's glow is nearly gone
And it's time to awaken
And he looks and he laughs at the sight
And he asks what has happened to me
And I blame it all on the lights
But he smiles and says I'm mistaken
And there is no use in disguising
What the eye can so clearly see
That I've spent my whole life denying
That the man in the mirror is me
Give me one second chance
Give me one final dance
Give me one magic line
Take a minute off my time
Give me one final bow
If the moment allows
While he stares at the scars
Saying just who you are
Just who you are
Just who you are
In a childlike illusion of life
He imagined the things yet to be
But they all disappeared on this night
Carry on among the foresaken
In there is no use in denying
What the eye can so clearly see
That one day I too will be dying
And the man in the mirror agrees
Give me one second chance
Give me one final dance
Give me one magic line
Take a minute off my time
Give me one final bow
If the moment allows
While he stares at the scars
Saying just who you are
Just who you are
Just who you are
Just who you... are
9. Surrender
When in your life did you surrender?
Late in the night do you remember?
What were the dreams that you betrayed then?
Would you go back if you could save them now?
Did you believe there was something more
Waiting behind some forgotten door?
Or was that all long before?
You felt the pressure grow inside your brain
Where every nerve is on fire
You start to wonder if you're going insane
It's not a fate you desired
...Time is running down!
Moments of reason that we hope to find
Are we a thought somewhere in God's mind
A work of art that he has never signed
No!
Children and mirrors have no memory
They reflect us for that is all they see
They are the us that is still yet to be
And so we carry on!
The clock is ticking and your growing afraid
That the end will be violent
You walk the edges all around your own grave
And the gods they are silent
...Or can not be found!
Searching your mind for correspondence from
Joseph and Mary and their only Son
Is their silence something you have done
No!
And in the end what have you defied
To end up so nearly crucified
Just let me know when you decide
That all hope is gone!
Come and see him dying, for it's really quite a show
Walking on a wire though he never seems to know
Even when he's falling you can see a little smile
Figures that he's flying only for a little while
The ground is rushing towards him but he never sees it there
Lives his life in pieces always taking every dare
What will be the ending, well I'm sure that I don't know
The ground is getting closer, come and see the show
See the show, oh
See the show...
10. Awaken
Can you see the future
Though it's well disguised?
Is the end so certain
That you've closed your eyes?
Dark as the dark can be
Beckons eternity
Exits exist in life
As they do on this night
Now's not the time to sleep
There are still nights to keep
Chances are there to take
Now it is time to...
Awaken
Awaken!
Awaken
Awaken!
Do you fear the future?
Do you fear the night?
Do you fear the morning's
Unforgiving light?
Agony, ecstasy
There is no certainty
Exits exist in life
As they do in this night
Now's not the time to sleep
There are still nights to keep
Chances are there to take
Now it is time to
Awaken
Awaken!
Awaken
Awaken!
11. Back to Reason
Time standing all alone
I bled for you
I wanted to
Each drop my own
Slowly they depart
But fall in vain
Like desert rain
And still they fall on and on and on
Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason I once knew
And this late in the seasons
One by one distractions fade from view
So drifting through the dark
The sympathy of night's mercy
Inside my heart
Is your life the same
Do ghosts cry tears
Do they feel years
As time just goes on and on and on?
Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason I once knew
And this late in the seasons
One by one distractions fade from view
Years come around
Men can be found
Following orders
Years come around
Planning is sound
Promises made
Years come around
Tears on the ground
Blood stains the borders
Leaders abound
Chances are down
No one's been saved
Give me one reason
For this dark treason
Every chance unsaid
Turn around, all dead
What went wrong?
Drink until you drown
What else can I say
When you're falling down?
You seek the ground
It's never far away
Can you live your life
Completely in a fall
Until you're found
Well underground
Your marker very small
As my world it keeps on spinning round
Have to get away
Have to ease the pain
I embrace the morphine child
And pump it in my veins
Burning through my heart
Fills in every hole
Makes my mind so blissful numb
And replaces my soul
Every moment drags me further
Down down down down down down!
Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason I once knew
And this late in the seasons
One by one distractions fade from view
The only reason I have left is you
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