The Hourglass

Savatage

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 hea

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