- Votes:
- Composers:
- Oliva
- John N./o'neill
- Paul F.
 
- Genres:
- Metal
 
- Tags:
- heavy metal
- progressive metal
- savatage
 
- See also:
Savatage - Not What You See lyrics
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]
 [1.] 
 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
 Savatage - Not What You See - http://motolyrics.com/savatage/not-what-you-see-lyrics.html
 [2.] 
 /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
 [3.] 
 /Tell me would you really want to
 See me leave this night without you
 /Would you ever look about you
 Wondering where we might be
 /New York is so far away now
 Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow
 /Only dreams from here but somehow
 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]
 [1.] 
 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











