Welcome
Savatage

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
So 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

His life was nearly over
As he stood upon the beach
Thinking about death and the ocean
While still safely out of reach

And he held there in his hand
A well worn hourglass
And though the sand was still inside

Soon this too would pass

Then he knelt to touch the water
Where the waves would gently fall
Thinking here I touch the ocean
And the ocean touches all

For from a line of countless sailors
He was the last man of his kind
And the world had changed around him
He had no mountains left to climb

And his last name was Magellan
A descendant of the same

Or so he said in late night bars

Though few believed his claim

And so he now talked with the ocean
As he had often done before
But now the waves spoke back to him
As he walked along the shore

For eighty years plus seven
He had been upon this earth
And all of them but eight
He'd spent on that ocean since his birth

But he was not the only one
Who walked along this coast
There was a lady old and pale
To some nearly a ghost

She had once been a great beauty
It was rumored in some bars
When she'd left here many years before
To become a movie star

But every wish is not to be
Ahh this in time she learned
And when her final chance had passed
Back here she had returned

And everyday at six o'clock

She came to a small cafe
And had herself a glass of wine
And then she'd walk away

To others she was gray and old
Not the beauty she'd been before
But it did not matter what she was
What mattered was what he saw

And so for near three years now
He'd watch her everyday
And though they always were so close

He felt so far away

For he could never quite arrange

The words inside his mind
That he could say to make her stay
And he was running out of time

He could not find the words to say
To such a work of dreams
And so he watched her walk away
And always stayed unseen


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Lyrics by Savatage

  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 Hourglass   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   When the Crowds Are Gone   White Witch   Wishing Well   You're Alive

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