Savatage - Not What You See lyrics

[Music & Words: Jon Oliva, Paul O'Neill] 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 [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 THEN THEY LEFT THE SQUARE TOGETHER NEATH THE FADING FIRE'S LIGHT AND THE GARGOYLE WATCHED AND WONDERED ON THAT WINTER'S SILENT NIGHT AND SO OUR STORY'S OVER AND FOR ANY ONE WHO CARES AS FOR THE OLD GARGOYLE I BELIEVE THAT HE'S STILL THERE