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SAVATAGE LYRICS
"Ghost In The Ruins: A Tribute to Criss Oliva" (1995 Live album)
1. City Beneath the Surface
2. 24 Hours Ago
3. Legions
4. Strange Wings
5. Gutter Ballet
6. When the Crowds Are Gone
7. Of Rage and War
8. The Dungeons Are Calling
9. Sirens
10. Hounds
11. Criss Intro
12. Hall of the Mountain King
13. Post Script
1. City Beneath the Surface
Hi, welcome to Hell
You are all here
For this is where you must dwell
All you sinners and cheats
Sit here with Satan
And have all your spirits meet
Oh, city beneath the surface above
How you survive on evil and blood?
Yeah, you breathers in this space
You never can leave this place, no!
Die, we all must die
How will you face it
When you bend to your knees and cry?
Burn, like witches burn
When will you sinners believe
That it's your time to learn?
Oh, city beneath the surface above
How you survive on evil and blood?
You breathers in this space
You never can leave this place
Oh, city beneath the surface above
How you survive on evil and blood?
Yaeh, you breathers in this space
You never can leave this place
You are punished for the way that you lived
Raping and stealing, but never one thought to give
Here forever, not a trail or a trace
Total illusions of tales of the unholy place
2. 24 Hours Ago
Behind the wheel just went along
I'm tired of hearing the same old song
I rule the night, no end in sight
I think I'm going insane!, oh yeah
Engines grind, I hit the red line
I'm movin' fast, forget the past
I'm burning tread in my head
I am gone, twenty four hours ago, yeah
Got to escape, can't take any more
I grabbed my suitcase and kicked down the door, yeah
I've got blood shot eyes, hypnotized
I feel no pain!, oh yeah
Engines grind, I hit the red line
I'm movin' fast, forget the past
I'm burning tread in my head
I am gone, twenty four hours ago, yeah
Engines grind, I hit the red line
I'm movin' fast, forget the past
I'm burning tread in my head
I am gone, yeah
Twenty four hours ago, yeah
3. Legions
A call from the night - metal storming masses
In the lies battle cry screaming to the night
Oh no, summon up the legions to do our deeds
Our legion's needs are growing every day
We're coming out tonight
We come from the darker light
On your knees and pray
Maybe you can all be saved?
Legions of the night
Legions of the night
Good God!
Legions of the night
Can they hear your battle cry?
Cry out, but what does it matter?
There's no way to escape the hold we have on you
Oh ho, controlled by the master
Infiltrate, penetrate your little precious minds
We're coming out tonight
We come from the darker light
On your knees and pray
Maybe you can all be saved?
Legions of the night
Legions of the night
Good God!
Legions of the night
Can they hear your battle cry?
Scream loud - let the masses hear you
Banging hard across the ground shatter the darkest lights
Oh no, heed the master's calling
Congregate, celebrate the power you've obtained
Good God!
Legions of the night
Legions of the night
Good God!
Legions of the night
Can I hear your battle cry?, oh yeah
4. Strange Wings
She is a native of the stormy skies, yeah
I caught a glimpse from the depths of my eyes
Atop a black winged mare casting a wicked stare
She throws her head back and rides into the night
She flies strange wings
Behind a thin disguise
She flies strange wings
Still tears she cries
Oh I followed her to the brink of dawn, yeah
She took control of my very soul, yeah
She's still a mystery, in her arms I long to be
I don't know why, I turn and reach to the sky
She flies strange wings
Behind a thin disguise
She flies strange wings
Still tears she cries, ah!
She flies strange wings
Behind a thin disguise
She flies strange wings
Still tears she cries!...
5. 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
6. 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 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
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 the saddest 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 pay!... yeah
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
7. 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 you 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?...
8. The Dungeons Are Calling
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, for me, yeah
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
It's nearing the end, I live like the dead!
The dungeons are calling
Calling for me, yeah... oh
The dungeons are calling
The rack waits for me, oh... yeah
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, oh!, yeah
The dungeons are calling
The rack waits for me, oh!, yeah!
9. Sirens
On the sea they heard the voices sing
Through the storm the island closes in
They'd heard tales of lives lost at sea
Deserted beach just beyong their reach
You're approaching the island of the...
Sirens
Sirens
Hungry for man tonight
Sirens
Sirens
Claiming the sailors' lives
Nine men made it to the shore
A night of terror lies neatly in store
Who are those women? Are they real?
Is this just a crazy dream?
You're approaching the island of the...
Sirens, ah!
Sirens, yeah
Hungry for flesh tonight
Sirens
Sirens
Claiming the sailors' lives
Terror happens quickly
Remains till the sailor are gone
They vanished in the night, yeah
Sirens singing their song
Whoa... till they're gone...
10. 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, yeah
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...
11. Criss Intro
12. Hall of the Mountain King
Far away in a land caught between time and space
Where the books of life lay
We fear this castle of stone
The mountain king roams all alone in here
But he's not the only one
Lost inside, forever hidden from the sun
Madness reigns
In the Hall of the Mountain King, oh yeah
His deep dark eyes keep watch on his kingdom
And the mysteries that sleeps safe inside
His hall, his towers of stone
Shall not be overthrown for eternity
It is guarded by the king
Insanity and the power that it brings
Madness reigns
In the Hall of the Mountain King, oh yeah
In the Hall of the Mountain King, oh yeah...
Come with me, stay close by my side
As the darkness of night closes in
Don't fear in the thunder it roars
When the Mountain King calls all his children home
To where I hid him we must run
Refuge here, but I was forever on the run
Madness reigns
In the Hall of the Mountain King, oh yeah
In the Hall of the Mountain King, oh yeah...
13. Post Script
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