When the Crowds Are Gone - Savatage

I don’t know where the years have gone

Memories can only last so long

Like faded photographs, forgotten songs

And the things I never knew

When the skin is thin, the heart shows through

Please believe me, what I tell you is true…

Where’s the light, turn then on again

One more night to believe and then

Another note for my requiem

A memory to carry on

The story’s over when the crowds are gone

All my friends have been crucified

They made life a long suicide true

Guess we never figured out the rules

But I’m still alive and my fingers feel

I’m gonna play on till the final reel’s through

And read the credits from a different view

Where’s the lights, turn them on again

One more night to believe and then

Another note for my requiem

A memory to carry on

The story’s over when the crowds are gone

When the crowds are gone

And I’m all alone

Playing a final song

Now that the lights are gone

Turn them on again

One more time for me my friend

Turn them on again

I never wanted to know

Never wanted to see

I wasted my time till time wasted me

Never wanted to go

Always wanted to stay

Cause the person I am are the parts that I play

So I play and I plan

And hope and I scheme

To the lure of a night

Filled with unfinished dreams

And I’m holding on tight

To a world gone astray

As they charge me for years

I can no longer pay

And the lights

Turn them off my friend

And the ghosts

Well just let them in

Cause in the dark

It’s easier to see