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SAVATAGE LYRICS
"The Wake of Magellan" (1998)
1. The Ocean
2. Welcome
3. Turns to Me
4. Morning Sun
5. Another Way
6. Blackjack Guillotine
7. Paragons of Innocence
8. Complaint in the System (Veronica Guerin)
9. Underture
10. The Wake of Magellan
11. Anymore
12. The Storm
13. The Hourglass
1. The Ocean
2. Welcome
The lights come on
The set is down
The curtain's flown away
To all you creatures of the night
I say it's time we play
We'll show you things
That in your life
You'd never dreamed you'd know
And now before the ghosts arrive
It's welcome to the show!
Minstrels, kings, explorers
Fantasies on order
Ghosts and dreams awakened
Stories long forsakened
The minstrel and the sorcerer
Are switching their disguise
The jester drinks and starts to think
That he alone is wise
The governor and journalist
Exchange a judas kiss
And now before the song is done
The plot begins to twist
Ghosts and lost explorers
Fate with all her daughters
Saints and hopeless sinners
Wise men in their winters know
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show...
3. Turns to Me
Stands all alone, looks in the mirror
And sees what she wanted to be
Safely unknown to anyone near her
She sees what she wanted to see
And turns to me...
And turns to me...
And turns to...
She was prophesied for an early slide
Followed it to the letter
Well kept beauty queen, if there, always seen
Still you thought she'd know better
No erasing the time you're wasting
But when you're wasting you don't care
All those pieces in short term leases
But when you need them, they're not there
For all those moments of yesterday
She's traded every tomorrow
And now all those moments are so far away
Ghosts haunt each word she would say
As she walks among the decay
She had Oscar Wilde's timeless sense of style
As had been her intention, still she was afraid
Time must be repaid and there'd be no redemption
Youth and time collide, she could not decide
On a certain direction time was catching up
Carefully made up, she avoided detection
For all those moments of yesterday
She's traded every tomorrow
And now all those moments are so far away
I saw it too, closer than you
What else is there left to say
Wait for me now, I will be there for you
This I will vow if you still want me to
But it won't be, this I have always known
And in the dark there's no one to pray for me now
I don't understand what I'm feeling tonight
I don't understand but I'm waiting
Searching the shadows that fade in the light
But I'm feeling alive, trying to survive
Float with the tide till you arrive and I...
4. Morning Sun
When you look at the morning sun
Do you see what I see?
Or could I be the only one
Seeing just what I need
I envision a different man
Than the one I've become
Pray the ocean will understand
That my time isn't done
Everyone's leading but nobody's dancing
You stand on the stage just to turn all alone
I have waited this way for a lifetime of days
I can't wait for the morning sun
As I stand with the sea
And the ocean she understands
Just the man I could be
Somewhere else there's a different world
With a sun that will rise
And a moon that will take its place
In another man's eyes
And perhaps it's a better world
Than the one that I see
Or if better for no one else
Perhaps better for me
Here in the dark where the sky shows its graces
Revealing each star while the moon plays the fool
Saying how it must be while the night disagrees
I can't wait for the morning sun
As I stand with the sea
And the ocean she understands
Just the man I could be
I can't wait for the morning sun
As I stand with the sea
And the ocean she understands
Just the man I could be
No, no, time doesn't wait for you
No, no, leave it alone
No, no, your days are far too few
This thing I have always known
When your time is up it's true
They never give another day to you
When your time is up it's through
No one cares how
Can't keep it
Can't save it
Can't take it away with you
So, I say, we use it now
5. Another Way
Times were changing, eighteen years and fading
Ain't a lot of time left to be a star
On an island all alone and dying
Walk upon the water, but you won't get far
Dreams and visions tied into decisions
Saw you on a postcard from the other side
Hope and glitter never feeling bitter
Walk upon the water just to be your bride
Don't tell me now that there is nothing more
There is a how just like there is a door
And if there's not to be another way
You tell me why, why, why, why!
Stay and follow if the words are hollow
Gotta' go along 'cause it's all you got
Each day earn them, turn around and burn them
Think your fitting in, but you hope you're not
Neatly drowning every drink your downing
If you drink enough, you'll forget the game
Each illusion wrapped in absolution
Live your life in weekends, but it's not the same
Don't tell me now that there is nothing more
There is a how just like there is a door
And if there's not to be another way
You tell me why, why, why, why!... yeah
6. Blackjack Guillotine
Blackjack guillotine, razor sharp
Always clean, gotta lie very wide
Once inside she knows what to do
She knows what to do
Skin tight, china white, just another neon life
In the vein leaves a stain
All the time you know that it's true
You know that its true
So tell me what you had in store
It doesn't matter anymore
It never did, it never will
But I'll be out there waiting still
You're moving fast but leaving tracks
A compromise to your attacks
There comes a time you want to take it...
...back, back, back, back
I can't think of nothing
I can't think of nothing
I can't think of nothing like that
Junkie, credit card, gotta vein
Goes for yards, hypnotised, you decide
Every neuron's changing its view
Changing its view
Gentlemen summarize every lie
Well disguised, don't forget, neuron death
In the mind awaiting its cue
Awaiting its cue
And so we found it very mod
The worshiping of lesser gods
And lie they do, for lie they must
For they know it's the lie we trust
And so we're out there laying tracks
Wherever there's a vein to pack
There comes a time you want to take it
...back, back, back, back
I can't think of nothing
I can't think of nothing
I can't think of nothing like that
7. Paragons of Innocence
Day... into night, into day
Into I don't know you anymore!
But I stand, where you say
Thinking all the time you planned it
You've been gone away too long
Leaving us to carry on
Though in truth you never tried
Just stepped back and watched the slide
Paragons of innocence
Questioning of your intent
Never quite sure what you meant
From the other side
Moments on the carousel
Must admit we ride it well
And the horses never tell
All throughout the ride
That no one leaves
No one leaves
No one leaves... alive
Time... on my hands slips away
Till I just don't feel it anymore
Thinking back when I can
To the time when it began with
Bits of dreams all in a line
And somehow we missed the signs
That it all was never real
And in truth a fatal deal
Paragons of innocence
Questioning of your intent
Never quite sure what you meant
From the other side
Moments on the carousel
Must admit we ride it well
And the horses never tell
All throughout the ride
No one leaves
No one leaves
No one leaves... he, ha... alive
There always comes a time
When you do what you want to do
You know you shouldn't do it
But you do it anyway
And when he had that time
When he knew what he wanted to
He quickly placed his order
Though he never thought he'd pay
But the lines turned to lies
And the lies turned to tangles
And you're pale as a cadaver
Though you think it doesn't show
So you live with the lies
And the friends that it gathers
But somewhere in your heart you know you
Got to let it, got to let it... go
Paragons of innocence
Questioning of your intent
Never quite sure what you meant
From the other side
Moments on the carousel
Must admit we ride it well
And the horses never tell
All throughout the ride
No one leaves
No one leaves
No one leaves... alive
8. Complaint in the System (Veronica Guerin)
Got a complaint in the system...
Welcome to the system, here's the situation
It's a bit confusing, welcome to the maze
Everybody sees what everybody wants to
Everyone avoids every other gaze
I will be your mentor, I'll be your advisor
I'll do what I do and you will look away
Forgetting what you see has always been much wiser
But someone in the back is missing what I say
Got a complaint in the system...
Welcome to the park now, we supply amusements
Everybody rides, but everybody pays
What good's causing problems when no one's complaining?
What good is a martyr if no one is saved?
Everybody knows us, everybody sees us
Every single child can tell you where we are
Every politician says that we are leaving
But in all this time we haven't gone too far
Got a complaint in the system...
You should understand it
It's not underhanded
It's really quite simple, you see
The right and the wrong of it
Long and the short of it
Black and the white of it
Forget the sight of it
It is so much cheaper
To be no one's keeper, trust me
In the dead of the night you can stab with a knife
But it's rare you'll ever get anywhere
So we laugh in delight till you turn on a light
And we scatter for the darkness
Or the corners filled with blackness
And we're...
...there...
...where...
...there...
...where... there...
9. Underture
10. The Wake of Magellan
As he stood upon the watch deck looking out onto the sea
It would offer no solutions, only silent company
So he took hold of the reasons as he tried to understand
But they offered just confusion as they bled into his hands
Dear God, couldn't you decide?
What should happen to a man's assassins?
Dear God, is it suicide?
I have never been a man of passions
I believe what the prophets said
That the oceans hold their dead
But at night when the waves are near
They whisper and I... hear
There are wounds that bleed inside us, there are wounds we never see
They are part of our refinements that allow a man to be
There are wounds that bleed in silence with aristocratic grace
There are tears we keep beside them, never seen upon a face
Dear God, do you think it's wise
To remember everything that's ever happened?
Dear God, could we compromise
Or must the shadows of this night be everlasting?
I believe what the prophets said
That the oceans hold their dead
As I contemplate this stand
What I do, is who I... am
I believe what the prophets said
That the oceans hold their dead
But at night when the waves are near
They whisper and I hear... yeah
Don't see the storms are forming
Don't see or heed the warning
Don't hear the sound of tyrants
Surrounded by the silence...
Columbus and Magellan and de Gama
Sailed upon the ocean
In a world of ignorance
With thoughts so primitive
That men were killed...
With no more will
Than that they simply had the notion
But in this world of heartless men
This thing they never did...
Don't hear it...
Got to keep it underground
Pretend you never heard a sound...
If they find it - kill it, blind it...
11. Anymore
Don't want to walk upon the water
Don't want to look across the waves
Instead of seeing hills of water
I just see markers on their graves
But in the fading of a season
To look across an empty sky
For a forgotten childhood reason
To once more wish that you could
Close your eyes and just believe again
There's a God, does he remember when
We were young and faith was not pretend?
Anymore... anymore... anymore...anymore
And in the night he sees the ocean
Carve its thoughts upon the shore
For in the way it was created
It can do this and nothing more
And every message it would leave him
The next wave carefully erased
As the tears that passed between them
Were so real that you could
Close your eyes and just believe again
There's a God, does he remember when
We were young and faith was not pretend?
Anymore... anymore... anymore...anymore
And all at once the waves were getting higher
And as they crashed, I thought I heard them say
There'd be a time when men would all be wiser
When everyone, everyone, yes, everyone is... saved
12. The Storm
13. 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...
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 me
In the dark he heard a whisper asking him to understand
In the desert look for water, on the ocean look for land
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
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...
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...
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