Biography:
Savatage was a heavy metal/progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1979. The band is known for recording many rock operas. Early on, Savatage was a traditional heavy metal band, who stood out from the pack due to guitarist Criss Oliva's uncommonly heavy riffing and vocalist Jon Oliva's unique vocal stylings.
Following the failure of FIGHT FOR THE ROCK, an attempt to commercialize their sound, Savatage began moving in a more operatic direction
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Note: this is based on the tabs and sheet music available at
http://www.savatage.com/newsavatage/multimedia/other.html.
I've tried my best to do a version with just chords, but if
anyone has suggestions for making it more accurate, I'd love to
see them!
[Intro]
Em D C (x2)
[Verse]
Em D C
No life's so short it can't turn around
Em D C
You can't spend your life living underground
Em D C
For from above you don't hear a sound
[Chorus]
G
And I'm out here, waiting
C D
I don't understand what you want me to be
G C
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
D Em D C
But I know that it's all that you see
Em D C
[Verse]
Em D C
No life's so short that it never learns
Em D C
No flame so small that it never burns
Em D C
No page so sure that it never turns
[Chorus]
G
And I'm out here, waiting
C D
I don't understand what you want me to be
G C
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
D G
But I know that it's all that you see
[Canon section]
1.
G D/F# C
Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?
D G
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
D/F# C
Tell me if you win would it show in a thousand years, who would know?
D
As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground
2.
G D/F#
I've been waiting
C D
I don't understand what you want me to be
G D/F#
It's the dark you're hating
C D
It's not who I am, but it is what you see
3.
G
Tell me would you really want to
D/F#
See me leave this night without you
C
Would you ever look about you
D G
Wondering where we might be
New York is so far away now
D/F#
Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow
C
Only dreams from here but somehow
D G
One day that world we will see
4.
G
I don't understand
D/F#
I don't understand
C
I don't understand
D
I don't understand
G
I don't understand
D/F#
I don't understand
C
I don't understand
D
I don't understand
G
What I see.
[Guitar solo]
G D/F# C D (x4)
[Outro]
G D/F#
I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance
C D
Our lives are this moment, the music the dance
G D/F#
And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries
C D G
I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see
D/F# C D
G
You're all that I see
D/F# C D
G
http://www.savatage.com/newsavatage/multimedia/other.html.
I've tried my best to do a version with just chords, but if
anyone has suggestions for making it more accurate, I'd love to
see them!
[Intro]
Em D C (x2)
[Verse]
Em D C
No life's so short it can't turn around
Em D C
You can't spend your life living underground
Em D C
For from above you don't hear a sound
[Chorus]
G
And I'm out here, waiting
C D
I don't understand what you want me to be
G C
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
D Em D C
But I know that it's all that you see
Em D C
[Verse]
Em D C
No life's so short that it never learns
Em D C
No flame so small that it never burns
Em D C
No page so sure that it never turns
[Chorus]
G
And I'm out here, waiting
C D
I don't understand what you want me to be
G C
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
D G
But I know that it's all that you see
[Canon section]
1.
G D/F# C
Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?
D G
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
D/F# C
Tell me if you win would it show in a thousand years, who would know?
D
As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground
2.
G D/F#
I've been waiting
C D
I don't understand what you want me to be
G D/F#
It's the dark you're hating
C D
It's not who I am, but it is what you see
3.
G
Tell me would you really want to
D/F#
See me leave this night without you
C
Would you ever look about you
D G
Wondering where we might be
New York is so far away now
D/F#
Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow
C
Only dreams from here but somehow
D G
One day that world we will see
4.
G
I don't understand
D/F#
I don't understand
C
I don't understand
D
I don't understand
G
I don't understand
D/F#
I don't understand
C
I don't understand
D
I don't understand
G
What I see.
[Guitar solo]
G D/F# C D (x4)
[Outro]
G D/F#
I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance
C D
Our lives are this moment, the music the dance
G D/F#
And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries
C D G
I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see
D/F# C D
G
You're all that I see
D/F# C D
G
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