No life's so short it can't turn around
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You can't spend your life living underground
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For from above you don't hear a sound
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And I'm out here, waiting
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I don't understand what you want me to be
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It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
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But I know that it's all that you see
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No life's so short that it never learns
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No flame so small that it never burns
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No page so sure that it never turns
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And I'm out here, waiting
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I don't understand what you want me to be
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It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
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But I know that it's all that you see
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(bridge)
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Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?
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Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
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Tell me if you win would it show - in a thousand years, who would know?
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As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground
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(simultaneously)
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Can you live your life in a day I've been waiting
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Putting every moment in play?
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Never hear a word that they say I don't understand what you want me to be
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As the wheels go around
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Tell me if you win would it show It's the dark you're hating
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In a thousand years, who would know?
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As a million lives come and go It's not who I am, but it is what you see
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On this same piece of ground
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(simultaneously)
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1.
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I've been waiting
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I don't understand what you want me to be
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It's the dark you're hating
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It's not who I am, but it is what you see
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2.
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/Can you live your life in a day
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Putting every moment in play?
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/Never hear a word that they say
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As the wheels go around
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/Tell me if you win would it show
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In a thousand years, who would know?
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/As a million lives come and go
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On this same piece of ground
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3.
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/Tell me would you really want to
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See me leave this night without you
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/Would you ever look about you
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Wondering where we might be
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/New York is so far away now
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Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow
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/Only dreams from here but somehow
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One day that world we will see
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(simultaneously again, except substitute this for stanza 1 and clip last three syllables
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of the last line of stanzas 2 and 3)
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1.
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I don't understand
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I don't understand
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I don't understand
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I don't understand
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I don't understand
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I don't understand
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I don't understand
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I don't understand...
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(together, immediately)
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...what I see.
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(solo)
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(coda)
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I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance
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Our lives are this moment, the music - the dance
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And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries
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I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see
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You're all that I see
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Not What You See
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| Savatage |
