Savatage Lyrics

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Stare Into the Sun Lyrics

a) Sarajevo

In the town of Sarajevo

There's an old medieval square

There's a church aside one corner

Most believe was always there

It was built a thousand years before

Any now were born

And its glory was its belfry

With its stones all gray and worn

Now there's a gargoyle on that belfry

And he's been up there for years

And he has watched and he has pondered

What is laughter

What are tears

For these peculiar institutions

That are so well known to man

When your heart is made of stone

Are quite hard to understand

And he's never found his answers

As he sees the years go by

But he watches and he wonders

With his stone unblinking eyes...

(it was the year of nineteen-ninety

and the berlin wall was down

and a thousand years regretted

now laid buried in the ground)

(and the prophets read the future

and the the omens all seemed kind

in the classic words of dickens

it's surely was the best of times)

b) This is the time (1990)

Watching in silence

I hesitate

It was not in the plain

All of our lives we could

Only wait

If was not in our hands

And every war where we took the day

They were all in our head

And though in the dark we could dream at night

They were better unsaid

But this is the time

And this is the place

And these are the signs

That we must embrace

The moment is now

In all history

The time has arrived

This is the one place to be

We placed our years in the hourglass

They were never unearved

Still we seemed destined to watch them pass

It was never our turn

But this is the time

And this is the place

And those are the years

That we must erase

The moment is now

In all history

If we had to choose

This is the one place to be...