Surrender
Savatage Lyrics

When in your life did you surrender
At what point in your life did you give up?

Late in the night do you remember
Do you recall during sleepless nights?

What were the dreams that you betrayed then
What were the dreams you abandoned?

Would you go back if you could save them now
Do you wish to redeem them now?

Did you believe there was something more
Did you have faith in anything beyond?

Waiting behind some forgotten door
Something that was hidden away long ago?

Or was that all long before
A distant memory, faded away?

You felt the pressure grow inside your brain
A creeping sense of anxiety plaguing you?

Where every nerve is on fire
Where everything hurts like hell?

You start to wonder if you're going insane
Doubt starts to creep from the corners of your mind?

It's not a fate you desired
Certainly not what you wanted for yourself?

Time is running down
There's no more time to waste?

Moments of reason that we hope to find
Times when we'd find the light of sense?

Are we a thought somewhere in god's mind
Are we insignificant specs in the creator's thoughts?

A work of art that he has never signed
Without purpose, despite his intervention?

Children and mirrors have no memory
Innocent eyes of children, or the reflections are limited?

They reflect us for that is all they see
Showing us as we appear to be on the surface?

They are the us that is still yet to be
Our future selves in the making?

And so we carry on
That's why we push ahead?

The clock is ticking and your growing afraid
Looming death making you nervous?

That the end will be violent
Worried about the way it will end?

You walk the edges all around your own grave
Enumerating the possible ways it could all go wrong?

And the gods they are silent
No divine intervention in sight?

Or can not be found
Unavailable despite your fervent prayers?

Searching your mind for correspondence from
Looking hard for a message from the divine?

Joseph and Mary and their only son
The holy family who are supposed to lead us?

Is their silence something you have done
Have you provoked their wrath or inattention?

And in the end what have you defied
After all the trials, what have you achieved?

To end up so nearly crucified
Surviving the torments of life by sheer luck?

Just let me know when you decide
Tell me when you've made up your mind?

That all hope is gone
When you're convinced everything's over, let me know?

Come and see him dying
Witness the end of an era?

For it's really quite a show
It's going to be grand and spectacular?

Walking on a wire
Nowhere to run, everywhere vulnerable?

Though he never seems to know
Unaware of the inherent danger or without a choice?

Even when he's falling
Even in defeat, defiance prevails?

You can see a little smile
Content with having given his best, despite failure?

Figures that he's flying
Even as he plunges, he imagines soaring?

Only for a little while
A temporary victory, but nevertheless cherished?

The ground is rushing towards him
The end of the line is drawing closer?

But he never sees it there
Ignorant of the inevitable?

Lives his life in pieces
In fragments, unable to put them together?

Always taking every dare
Living on the razor's edge, forever daring fate?

What will be the ending
What fate has destiny in store for us?

Well I'm sure that I don't know
I couldn't say for certain what the end will be?

See the show
Take a good, long look at what's happening around?

See the show
Observe what everyone else is so caught up in?

See the show
Cherish the moment, because things might change?