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 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...
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
But what the sailor did not know
And would never learn
Was on that beach now far away
The young child had returned
And finding the broken hourglass
He reset it upright
Then placed sand from the beach inside
And placed the lid on tight
Then examining his handiwork
He left it in the sand
And then he quickly ran back home
Thinking god would understand
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
Did you ever really want to
Lord, tell me how it will be
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
No more
No more
Now our story's nearly over
And we've reached the final scene
But we're sure that some have wondered
What had happened in-between
From the moment when the boy was saved
And their boat had reached the shore
Well, they talked about life and death
And perhaps a little more
The boy said he'd been a stowaway
Aboard the maersk dubai
When the captain had him thrown to the sea
And left him there to die
At this the old sailor had stood up
His face now filled with rage
And swore that he would never rest
Until that captain had been caged
But the boy implored the sailor
That he not say a word
Because he was an illegal immigrant
And as of recently he'd heard
That going to the authorities
Could often be unwise
When one's paper were illegal
The police just might not sympathize
So when they reached the harbor
With their journey at an end
He left the boy on another ship
Whose captain was a friend
And when he saw it pull to sea
And was once more all alone
He leaned against the tiller
And turned his ship back home
Eventually he reached that beach
He'd left the night before
Then stepped a last time from the boat
And waded to the shore
Then the old man picked the glass up
That he had left behind
And headed for the small cafe
For it was nearly time
And the ocean watched him leaving
To find his lady fair
And as he left he heard her last words
Drifting in the air
That every man
Is born you see
Beneath the sword
Damocles
For young and old
Are all alive
On that next beat
On which we ride
And that beat is such
A fragile thing
In both old men
Or youthful king
And that beat
Stands all alone you see
Between us
And black eternity
And until that time
When death won't wait
Let each man rage
Against his fate
The Hourglass
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24 Hours Ago [Live] 24 Hrs. Ago A Little Too Far Agony And Ecstasy All That I Bleed Alone You Breathe Another Day Anymore Awaken Back to Reason Believe Beyond the Doors of the Dark Blackjack Guillotine By the Grace of the Witch Can You Hear Me Now Castles Burning Chance City Beneath the Surface Commissar Complaint in the System Conversation Piece Crying For Love Damien Day After Day Dead Winter Dead Degrees Of Sanity Desiree Devastation Doesn't Matter Anyway Drive Edge Of Thorns Exit Music Fight For the Rock Follow Me Forever After Fountain of Youth Ghost in the Ruins Gutter Ballet Gutter Bullet Hall of the Mountain King Handful of Rain Hard For Love He Carves His Stone Heal My Soul Holocaust Hounds Hourglass Hourglass Hyde I Am I Believe I Seek Power If I Go Away In the Dream Jesus Saves Labyrinths Lady In Disguise Lady In Disquise Legions Lights Out Living For The Night Man in the Mirror Mentally Yours Midas Knight Miles Away Morning Sun Morphine Child Necrophilia New York City Don't Mean Nothing Not What You See Nothings Going On Ocean Of Rage And War On The Run One Child Out On The Streets Out on the Streets (in album Fight for the Rock) Overture Paragons of Innocence Power of the Night Rage Red Light Paradise Sammy And Tex Sarajevo Scream Murder She's in Love She's Only Rock'n'Roll Shotgun Innocence Sirens Skraggy's Tomb Skull Session Sleep Somewhere in Time St. Patrick's Stare Into the Sun Starlight Stay with Me a While Strange Reality Strange Wings Streets Stuck on You Summer's Rain Surrender Symmetry Taunting Cobras The Dungeons Are Calling The Edge of Midnight The Message The Price You Pay The Rumor The Storm [Instrumental] The Unholy The Wake of Magellan The Whip There in the Silence This Is the Time (1990) This Isn't What We Meant Thorazine Shuffle Tonight He Grains Again Turns to Me Twisted Little Sister Underture Underture [Instrumental] Unusual Visions Warriors Washed Out Watching You Fall Welcome When the Crowds Are Gone White Witch Wishing Well You're Alive
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