Sarajevo / This Is The Time (1990) Lyrics - Savatage

a) Sarajevo 

In the town of Sarajevo 

There's an old medieval square 

There's a church aside one corner 

Most believe was always there 

It was built a thousand years before 

Any now were born 

And its glory was its belfry 

With its stones all gray and worn 

Now there's a gargoyle on that belfry 

And he's been up there for years 

And he has watched and he has pondered 

What is laughter 

What are tears 

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For these peculiar institutions 

That are so well known to man 

When your heart is made of stone 

Are quite hard to understand 

And he's never found his answers 

As he sees the years go by 

But he watches and he wonders 

With his stone unblinking eyes... 

(it was the year of nineteen-ninety 

and the berlin wall was down 

and a thousand years regretted 

now laid buried in the ground) 

(and the prophets read the future 

and the the omens all seemed kind 

in the classic words of dickens 

it's surely was the best of times) 

b) This is the time (1990) 

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Watching in silence 

I hesitate 

It was not in the plain 

All of our lives we could 

Only wait 

If was not in our hands 

And every war where we took the day 

They were all in our head 

And though in the dark we could dream at night 

They were better unsaid 

But this is the time 

And this is the place 

And these are the signs 

That we must embrace 

The moment is now 

In all history 

The time has arrived 

This is the one place to be 

We placed our years in the hourglass 

They were never unearved 

Still we seemed destined to watch them pass 

It was never our turn 

But this is the time 

And this is the place 

And those are the years 

That we must erase 

The moment is now 

In all history 

If we had to choose 

This is the one place to be...