Welcome Lyrics - Singles - Savatage

The lights come on 

The set is down 

The curtain's flown away 

To all you creatures of the night 

I say it's time we play 

We'll show you things 

That in your life 

You'd never dreamed you'd know 

So now before the ghosts arrive 

It's welcome to the show 

Minstrels, kings, explorers 

Fantasies on order 

Ghosts and dreams awakened 

Stories long forsaken 

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The minstrel and the sorcerer 

Are switching their disguise 

The jester drinks and starts to think 

That he alone is wise 

The governor and journalist 

Exchange a judas kiss 

And now before the song is done 

The plot begins to twist 

Ghosts and lost explorers 

Fate with all her daughters 

Saints and hopeless sinners 

Wise men in their winters 

Know 

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His life was nearly over 

As he stood upon the beach 

Thinking about death and the ocean 

While still safely out of reach 

And he held there in his hand 

A well worn hourglass 

And though the sand was still inside 

Soon this too would pass 

Then he knelt to touch the water 

Where the waves would gently fall 

Thinking here I touch the ocean 

And the ocean touches all 

For from a line of countless sailors 

He was the last man of his kind 

And the world had changed around him 

He had no mountains left to climb 

And his last name was Magellan 

A descendant of the same 

Or so he said in late night bars 

Though few believed his claim 

And so he now talked with the ocean 

As he had often done before 

But now the waves spoke back to him 

As he walked along the shore 

For eighty years plus seven 

He had been upon this earth 

And all of them but eight 

He'd spent on that ocean since his birth 

But he was not the only one 

Who walked along this coast 

There was a lady old and pale 

To some nearly a ghost 

She had once been a great beauty 

It was rumored in some bars 

When she'd left here many years before 

To become a movie star 

But every wish is not to be 

Ahh this in time she learned 

And when her final chance had passed 

Back here she had returned 

And everyday at six o'clock 

She came to a small cafe 

And had herself a glass of wine 

And then she'd walk away 

To others she was gray and old 

Not the beauty she'd been before 

But it did not matter what she was 

What mattered was what he saw 

And so for near three years now 

He'd watch her everyday 

And though they always were so close 

He felt so far away 

For he could never quite arrange 

The words inside his mind 

That he could say to make her stay 

And he was running out of time 

He could not find the words to say 

To such a work of dreams 

And so he watched her walk away 

And always stayed unseen