Savatage Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Complaint in the System Lyrics

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

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

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

There

Where

Where

There

Then the sailor turned around

And walked back along the beach

Towards the boat anchored offshore

For his decision had been reached

He then sat down on the sand

Thinking of all he & #146; d seen that day

And then decided in his mind

It was time to sail away

For the world that I was born to

Clearly no longer exists

And the feeling I should leave it

I can no longer resist

And as he sat there thinking

A mother and her child walked by

And the old sailor's hourglass

Had caught the young boy's eye

So he walked up to the stranger

As only a young child will do

To ask if he could see the hourglass

But then he noticed something new

That the old man he was crying

Though he tried to wipe his eyes

So the child forgot the hourglass

And instead asked the old man why

But before the sailor could answer

The mother said to leave the man alone

And taking the child by the hand

She gently led him home

And as they left the beach

The sand recorded both their tracks

Until they reached the final dune

When the young child he looked back

Then he saw the sailor standing up

The glass falling from his hand

When it hit the ground the top broke off

And spilled out all its sand


Then the sailor walked up to the sea

And waded to the boat

But instead of pulling up the anchor

He simply cut the rope

And the last thing that the child saw

As they walked out of sight

Was the sailor and his sailboat

Sailing out into the night