This Isn't What We Meant Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Dogplatter 

Cover art for This Isn't What We Meant lyrics by Savatage

Not nuclear apocalypse - it's a continuation of the Bosnian theme of the Dead Winter Dead album.

The aged cello player returns to Sarajevo to find it a bombed out mess.

From the liner notes above the song:

"The old man has toured the Earth Playing cello for the learned Of a thousand foreign cities Only now he had returned

To the city he had left once To the place we he was raised In the house where he was born in At the fires he now gazed"