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Not What You See Lyrics
No life's so short it can't turn around
You can't spend your life living underground
For from above you don't hear a sound
And I'm out here, waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
But I know that it's all that you see
No life's so short that it never learns
No flame so small that it never burns
No page so sure that it never turns
And I'm out here, waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
But I know that it's all that you see
(bridge)
Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
Tell me if you win would it show - in a thousand years, who would know?
As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground
(simultaneously)
Can you live your life in a day I've been waiting
Putting every moment in play?
Never hear a word that they say I don't understand what you want me to be
As the wheels go around
Tell me if you win would it show It's the dark you're hating
In a thousand years, who would know?
As a million lives come and go It's not who I am, but it is what you see
On this same piece of ground
(simultaneously)
1.) I've been waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating
It's not who I am, but it is what you see
2.) /Can you live your life in a day
Putting every moment in play?
/Never hear a word that they say
As the wheels go around
/Tell me if you win would it show
In a thousand years, who would know?
/As a million lives come and go
On this same piece of ground
3.) /Tell me would you really want to
See me leave this night without you
/Would you ever look about you
Wondering where we might be
/New York is so far away now
Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow
/Only dreams from here but somehow
One day that world we will see
(simultaneously again, except substitute this for stanza 1 and
clip last three syllables of the last line of stanzas 2 and 3)
1.) I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand...
(together, immediately)
...what I see.
(solo)
(coda)
I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance
Our lives are this moment, the music - the dance
And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries
I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see
You're all that I see
You can't spend your life living underground
For from above you don't hear a sound
And I'm out here, waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
But I know that it's all that you see
No flame so small that it never burns
No page so sure that it never turns
And I'm out here, waiting
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am
But I know that it's all that you see
Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground
Putting every moment in play?
Never hear a word that they say I don't understand what you want me to be
As the wheels go around
Tell me if you win would it show It's the dark you're hating
In a thousand years, who would know?
As a million lives come and go It's not who I am, but it is what you see
On this same piece of ground
I don't understand what you want me to be
It's the dark you're hating
It's not who I am, but it is what you see
Putting every moment in play?
/Never hear a word that they say
As the wheels go around
/Tell me if you win would it show
In a thousand years, who would know?
/As a million lives come and go
On this same piece of ground
See me leave this night without you
/Would you ever look about you
Wondering where we might be
/New York is so far away now
Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow
/Only dreams from here but somehow
One day that world we will see
clip last three syllables of the last line of stanzas 2 and 3)
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand
I don't understand...
I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance
Our lives are this moment, the music - the dance
And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries
I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see
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No life's so short that it never learns No flame so small that it never burns No page so sure that it never turns
I love this part. This song is sensational...
i think they're brilliant, i'd have never heard this song without randomly searching savatge on metacrawler mp3 search. it's better than all the others i've heard.
This is off of the dead winter dead album its about the Bosnian War in the nineties; its clearly from someone who feels misunderstood: "(I) don't understand what you want me to be It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am But I know that it's all that you see" It was basically a civil war involving ethnic groups (and such crimes as you'd expect: allegedly there was rape, concentration camps, genocide) I think the band was trying to preach tolerance. Theres a love story on the album about a Serb boy and a Muslim girl. I don't really know much about this war so if I have it wrong Please correct it. Anyway i think the lyrics are pretty and isn't this a rondella? (4 "people" singing and overlapping) Thats not easy to do. Also I like the guitar bit in the middle.
First off, I have to say this album and this band are just phenomenal and it's a shame that 95% of Trans Siberian Orchestra will never know how they came about, or ever know of this album to appreciate it.
That said, this album was a concept that tells the story of a Siberian boy and a Bosnian girl who fall in love during the Yugoslavia war. I can't quite put my finger on the full meaning of this song, but it is painfully beautiful. Knowing what we know of that war, and heard stories of that time period from some once-refugees of that country, it's safe to say that relationship between the two was impossible. I think this song, being the last of the album and going over the lyrics, is the boy telling the girl to run away with him to another country. Right up to the last line in the song, we don't know if she agrees or not. All that's told is that they're madly in love and I think the boy is fleeing the country, with or without her.
@Floyd4Life correction, I meant to say "It's a shame 95% of Trans Siberian Orchestra FANS will never know..."
@Floyd4Life correction, I meant to say "It's a shame 95% of Trans Siberian Orchestra FANS will never know..."
this band sucks arse