Not What You See - Savatage

No life’s so short it can’t turn around

You can’t spend your life living underground

For from above you don’t hear a sound

And I’m out here, waiting

I don’t understand what you want me to be

It’s the dark you’re hating, it’s not who I am But I know that it’s all that you see

No life’s so short that it never learns

No flame so small that it never burns

No page so sure that it never turns

And I’m out here, waiting

I don’t understand what you want me to be

It’s the dark you’re hating, it’s not who I am But I know that it’s all that you see

(bridge)

Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?

Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around

Tell me if you win would it show — in a thousand years, who would know?

As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground

(simultaneously)

Can you live your life in a day I’ve been waiting

Putting every moment in play?

Never hear a word that they say I don’t understand what you want me to be

As the wheels go around

Tell me if you win would it show It’s the dark you’re hating

In a thousand years, who would know?

As a million lives come and go It’s not who I am, but it is what you see

On this same piece of ground

(simultaneously)

I’ve been waiting

I don’t understand what you want me to be

It’s the dark you’re hating

It’s not who I am, but it is what you see

Putting every moment in play?

As the wheels go around

In a thousand years, who would know?

On this same piece of ground

See me leave this night without you

Wondering where we might be Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow

One day that world we will see

(simultaneously again, except substitute this for stanza 1 and clip last three

syllables

of the last line of stanzas 2 and 3)

I don’t understand

I don’t understand

I don’t understand

I don’t understand

I don’t understand

I don’t understand

I don’t understand

I don’t understand…

(together, immediately)

…what I see.

(solo)

(coda)

I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance

Our lives are this moment, the music — the dance

And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries

I close my eyes on this night and you’re all that I see

You’re all that I see