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1. Streets


As darkness falls so hard
The children play

Somewhere
Out there
Alone and out of place
Streets of illusion
Sooth the shattered fate

I've been a runner
I've been a sinner
I've been inside my head
I sit here staring
Never quite caring
And this is where it has led

[Chorus]

These streets
Glitter in the dark
Don't sleep
Red eyes sunken and stark
Dream deep
In her arms where you are safe
These streets
Never sleep still never wake

Somewhere out there
Gardens bloom and grow
Children awaken
To a world they know

Somewhere the sun shines
Somewhere the light's kind
Somewhere they seek the day

Somewhere there's no scene
Somewhere the air's clean
But somewhere is so far away

These streets
Glitter in the dark
Don't sleep
Red eyes sunken and stark
Dream deep
In her arms where you are safe
These streets
Never sleep still never wake

Welcome children
From the other side
In the darkness
Your eyes are opened wide

Here there are answers
On the edge dancers
Here the night hides out sins
And if you listen
While the streets glisten
Here's where our story begins

These streets
Glitter in the dark
Don't sleep
Red eyes sunken and stark
Dream deep
In her arms where you are safe
These streets
Never sleep still never wake


2. Jesus Saves


[Intro spoken by the bum:]
Hey, man, got a quarter?
You ain't got nothin' that's OK man, that's OK.
God bless you anyway. Here, I hope I didn't scare you or nothing like that. I, I ain't no bum or nothing like that. Yeah, I I use to live uptown once once before too you know. No, no, I did I did really. Use to come down here and look at all the characters. Never thought I'd be one of them though. Characters, man a lot of characters.
He he, you got a minute, you got a minute, let me tell you a story about this friend of mine. D.T. Jesus use to stand for Down Town Jesus. He use to sell drugs and stuff down there, and they called him- that's why we use to call him DeTox. He was one character, one character that made it outta here.
Let me tell you about him.

Jesus was a talker
Just an out-of-place New Yorker
He hung out on the boulevard
He was sellin' nickel candies
He was saving all his quarters
Bought himself a cheap guitar
Started playing' bars
Kids came in their cars
Hear them shouting at the stage

[Chorus:]
Jesus saves
Jesus saves
Yes he does
Jesus saves

You know
Jesus he started changin'
Things got really strange
He saw his tee shirts everywhere
He started missing shows
The band came down to blows
But Jesus he just didn't care

Things got out of hand
And so he quit the band
Still the critics they would rave

[Chorus:]

So the dice were cast
Today became the past
Jesus just disappeared
He was headed for New York
Or so his little label thought
And there he gave away the years

Last seen drinking wine
Beneath a flashing sign
Promising salvation to strays

[Chorus]

Her Him cut through the night
On those late night radio waves

Jesus saves
Yes he does
Jesus saves


3. Tonight He Grins Again


Nighttime again
Seems I'm my only friend
Wander the streets all alone
The lost in search of his own

Once again I've played the clown
Used my friends to let him down
Walk the streets just staring out
'Cause in the dark the strange come out

Time and time and time again
I'm just looking for a friend
But no one seems to be around
Except this monkey that I've found
Still he is my only friend
And tonight he grins again

Something cold as pain
Burning inside my veins
I walk away
A shadow of Dorian Gray

Once again I've played the clown

Used my friends to let them down
Walk the streets just staring out
'Cause in the dark the strange come out

Time and time and time again
I'm just looking for a friend
But no one seems to be around
Except this monkey that I've found
Still he is my only friend
And tonight he grins again


4. Strange Reality


Who's this before me
Dressed in rags soaked in gin
A sign or a warning
Am I now where he's been

Am I losing my way
This strange insanity
An illusion away
Is this reality

Could that be me

Wake every morning
I don't know where I've been
All my excuses
Showing strain wearing thin

Am I losing my way
This strange insanity
An illusion away
Is this reality

Could that be me

Another day
Another night
Another drink another fight
Somehow it's all the same
And so I'm staring in my gin
Never knowing if I'll win
And still I play the game

Look to the future
With the eyes of the blind
Can't see much further
Than this haze
In my mind

Am I losing my way
This strange insanity
An illusion away
Is this reality

Could that be me


5. A Little Too Far


Do you remember
Look at me
And all the things we'd said we'd be
We'd beat the house
We'd push the odds
We'd take it all we had the cards

With years to burn
And years to trash
Living lies based on flash
But somehow reaching for the stars
I think we went a bit too far

Got to get back
Got to get back
I never meant to take it this far

When everything you touch turns gold
Can weigh you down
Can make you old
When metal doesn't ring the same
Reaction from inside your brain
And all those years we offered up
To gods who couldn't get enough
And though we still stay up all night
The mornings aren't quite as bright

Got to get back
Got to get back
I never meant to take it this far

And all those things we thought we'd learned
As we watched our bridges burn
While standing in the afterglow
I guess we gave them quite a show

And who's to say what it's about
When John Wayne caught the last train out
And Spock and Kirk have had enough
And no one's left to beam me up
Got to get back
Got to get back
I never meant to take it this far


6. You're Alive


So D.T. returned
To the ground he had burned in his past
And the press they all laughed
And they said it never lasts

But the crowds they came in
Just to see a man back from the dead
As he stood on the stage
The world echoed in his head

When you're skating on ice too thin to take it
You got to move fast or else you break it
So throw back your hair and feel the wind rush by

So people take care when you're chasing a dream in the night
That the walls of the past don't interrupt your flight
Never stop never turn
Never look never learn
So they say
But somewhere in time we all pay
For yesterday

When you're skating on ice too thin to take it
You got to move fast or else you break it
So throw back your hair and feel the wind rush by
And you're alive


7. Sammy and Tex


Hey D.T. what you been up to
It's been a real long time
And your bill's past due
Stop right there
Don't you look away
'Cause you've had your fun
Now it's time to pay

Now you know that I've been waiting
And I'm really very patient
But you've really pushed me way too far
'Cause you owe me thirty thousand
And with interest it's been growing
While you've hidden in these bars

Now I would have said just duck it
But then money by the bucket
I hear you're raking in
So please forgive my diction
And prepare for crucifixion
While I write your next of kin

So please don't turn away
You borrowed now you pay
Seems your mind's
Gone a bit off track
Time to readjust
'Cause Sammy's back

So Sammy started dealing
and D.T. started reeling
And they tumbled to the floor
The furniture was flying
And D.T. thought of dying
When Tex walked through the door

Now Tex he wasn't waiting
And without hesitating
Grabbed Sammy by the throat
And Sammy started shakin'
A frightened slab of bacon
Hanging like a coat

Seemed things were going right
Till Sammy pulled a knife sayin'

"If you want to cut the cards
Sammy's gonna up the odds"

Then everything was quiet
A street after the riot
And the silence hung like death
And Tex he wasn't breathing
His body lay there bleeding
A knife inside his chest

When D.T. saw his friend there
He quickly lost his terror
As something tore inside
His face was clenched in hatred
As his mind formulated
How this pimp would die

Sammy saw it in his eyes
And thought retreat would be wise

Saying "Seems I've stayed
A bit too long
So I'll take my things
And Sammy's gone"


8. St. Patrick's


Hey there Lord it's me
I wondered if you're free
Or not asleep
This just won't keep
It seems I just don't see

Why all the things we asked
Or prayed would come to pass
Have gone unheard
Like silent words
That slip into the past

For Lord they're not schemes
Can't you tell dreams
Why do you
Let them slip by
Never even tried

It isn't you don't hear
There's far too many tears
Or can't you feel
Are we unreal
To one who knows no peers

You say we must pay dues
But still I am confused
I need to walk
And with you talk
Instead of to statues

For Lord they're not schemes
Can't you tell dreams
Why do you
Let them slip by
Never even tried

You take all the fame
But who'll accept the blame
For all the hurts
Down here on earth
Unnecessary pain

For surely you must care
Or are you only air
Built in out minds
When we're in binds
And never really there

[Bridge]

And can we be tired of you
Is that something that we're allowed to do
For even the blind change their view
And it's time we tried something new

And so I pled my case
I'll now pull my escape
Didn't mean to doubt
What it's about
Seems I forgot my place

But if you find the time
Please change the story line
Or give a call
Explain it all
I'll even leave the dime


9. Can You Hear Me Now?


If I closed my eyes
Would it all subside
To an echo in the night
Of a distant fading light
Then a stranger's silhouette
A burning cigarette
And somewhere in the haze
A passage through the maze

And can you hear me now
Or are there just too many doors
Between then and now
For me to ever reach on through
And pull you back somehow
But that can't happen anymore
Still still in the night
I think I hear you calling

I have walked this stage
As the music played
They knew every word
But they never heard
For they never changed
It's all very strange
As I'm standing here
Contemplating years

And can you hear me now
Or are there just too many doors
Between then and now
For me to ever reach on through
And pull you back somehow
But that don't happen anymore
Still in the dark
I'd swear I hear you calling


10. New York City Don't Mean Nothing


I've been here since eighty-one
That's a long time
And I've seen
All there is here to see

Had a space on Astor place
Had it all once
Now there streets
Are my reality

You see
New York City
Don't mean nothing
Just a good place when you're running
Light that cut so bright they make you bleed

Neon children live their lives there
Mad magicians tinsel nightmares
Still you know I'm never gonna leave

Never sleep alone on the subways
Never walk alone on the tracks
Never take a ride to the edge of your mind
Not unless you have a ticket back
Don't believe in T.V. preachers
Don't believe in talk show stars
Never follow trends if they turn on your friends
Just to be sure you know who your friends are

And if you're running blind
On a refueled mind
Better watch the time
And careful you don't go too far

Never burn the bridges before you
If you've burned the bridges behind
And never burn the one that you're walking upon
Or you're sure to hit the water in time

Don't believe in expectations
Don't believe in shooting stars
And if you make a stand on a dead empty hand
Never let them see your cards

And if you're running blind
On a refueled mind
Better watch the time
And careful you don't go too far


11. Ghost In The Ruins


Got a limousine
I wanna show it
Future's looking good
I'll probably blow it
Had some parents once
But you'd never know it
Bank roll oversize
So what if they stole it

But who am I foolin'
I'm the king of the ruins

But I'm doin' well tonight
I got dreams to sell tonight

Got to belong
Try to hang on
Got to belong

Ghost in the ruins
I'm runnin' the street scene
Ghost in the ruins
Burnin' like gasoline
Ghost in the ruins
I'm takin' you in deep
East Side West Side playin' for keeps

See the runaway there on the corner
Just a throw away but somebody's daughter
Had a pretty face so somebody bought her
Sellin' her soul away so put in your order

She knows what she's doin'
She's a ghost in the ruins
She's doin' it well tonight
Got dreams to sell tonight
She wants to belong
Knows what to do
She's got to hang on
Ghost in the ruins
I'm running the street scene
Ghost in the ruins
Burning like gasoline
Ghost in the ruins
I'm takin' you in deep
East Side West Side
Playin' for keeps

I know
I know you know
I know
I know you know
I know
I know you know
I don't know anymore
I'm tellin' you
I don't know anymore
I'm tellin' you
I don't know anymore


12. If I Go Away


Somewhere on that long lonely road
We all stand lone
Looking for clues
From our different views

In the dark I've called out your name
It echoes in vain
Over again
In an empty room

[Chorus:]
If I go away
What would still remain of me?
The ghost within your eyes
The whisper in your sighs
You see
Believe
And I'm always there

Staring down a long empty hall
Pictures on walls
All with your name
But it's not the same

Searching for the chord I can't hear
Been searching for years
It's somewhere inside
But it's well disguised

[Chorus]

Someday I'll take a chance
You find them where you can
They tend to slip away
Those doors to yesterday

Forever is a long time they say
Maybe some day
I'll meet you there
If you've time to spare
Tell me then
Where I can go
Where they won't know
Who I have been
Can we start again

[Chorus]


13. Agony and Ecstasy


Listen to me
From deep down inside
I'm the madness that just
Will not die
With no regrets
Of what I'll do to you

Before the night is over
You'll be crawling to me

You call me when you're weak
For me you'll lie and cheat
You'll never get away
With me you're here to stay
Listen D.T. can't you see
Stay with me and you'll be free
Even as I soothe your soul
I tear you down and make you old
You just keep on coming back
To buy another nickel sack
Twelve o'clock time to greet
Agony and ecstasy
Ecstasy
I'm the cry from within
From when your day begins
You'll follow me like sheep
This shepherd never sleeps

So tell me what's your price
Came skate on my ice
My blades they never rust
I'm asking you to trust

Listen now the time is right
And what a way to start the night
Spend your money endlessly
Another grand insanity
So D.T. here is the plan
I'll make your brain a rubber band
Time to stretch it out and see
Agony and Ecstasy
Ecstasy
Feel my whisper through your haze of pain
Feel the calling of a neon vein
I'm the name upon your soul's marquee
I am agony and ecstasy

And just remember
If you ever need me I'm here


14. Heal My Soul


I've been waiting
Long forgotten
Shipwrecked on
A distant shore
Am I drifting
No more wanted
Floating outward
Evermore

All the dreams
That I've harbored
In the labyrinths
Of my soul

Gone forever
Not discarded
Only sleeping
Till they're whole

In the graveyard
Of my heart now
Sleep the years
That I've long sold

For their markers
Is there nothing
Only ghost
I can not hold

Father hear me
I am tired
Shall I waken
In thy home

Hold me closer
I am trying
Sweet Lord Jesus
Heal my soul


15. Somewhere In Time


So what can I tell you
If life's the length of this play
Perhaps God gave the answers
To those with nothing to say

But then the years are forgiving
If God's forgiving in kind
Perhaps we'll all find our answers somewhere in time

I've been changing
Redefining
All the things I thought I knew
So long ago
When I was flying
Through those years that seem so far away

In the back of a reason
In the back of my mind
Where I've piled up the seasons
That I've traded for times

I've been grasping at rainbows
Hanging on till the end
But the rain is so real lord
And the rainbows pretend
And the rainbows pretend

I've been changing
Redefining
All the things I thought I knew
So long ago
When I was flying
Through the years
That seem so far away


16. Believe


So after all those one night stands
You've ended up with heart in hand
A child alone
On your own
Retreating
Regretful for the things you're not
And all the dreams you haven't got
Without a home
A heart of stone
Lies bleeding

And for all the roads you followed
And for all you did not find
And for all the things you had to leave behind

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams
Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you
Believe
Your childhood eyes were so intense
While bartering your innocence
For bits of string
The grown-up wings
You needed

But when you had to add them up
You found that there were not enough
To get you in
Pay for sins repeated

And for all the years you borrowed
And for all the tears you cried
And for all the fears you had to keep inside

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark
I hear your screams

Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
All I ask of you is
Believe

I never wanted to know
Never wanted to see
I wasted my time
Till time wasted me
I never wanted to go
I always wanted to stay
'Cause the persons I am
Are the parts that I play
So I plot and I plan
And I 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't pay

I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark
Inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark
I hear your screams
Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
All I ask of you

Believe


17. Desiree


[bonus track]

Desiree
Listen to your heart
Have the dreams all been scattered
Are all the words just parts
'Cause in these ruins alone
I've been watching you
A ghost among these stones
Desiree I've got to tell you

What good's a tear without a face
To soften its downward fall from grace
And across my heart
Desiree I wish you'd see
Scars are the wounds that we all show
Time only heals if you let go
If you're letting go
Desiree I wish you'd think of...

If you only take chances
When every angle's safe
Have partnerless dances
In castles where you wait

But I see far away
A distance in your eyes
As you go on alone
Piling up your alibis

What good's a tear without a face
To soften its downward fall from grace
And across my heart
Desiree I wish you'd see
Scars are the wounds that we must show
Time only heals if you let go
If you're letting go
Desiree I wish you'd think of...

Lost in a movie script
With no words left to say
You leave on that plane alone
And there inside a midnight fog
I turn and walk away

What good's a tear that fall from grace
What good's a life that leaves no trace
When its time is done
Desiree I wish you'd see

Who needs a heart that never bleeds
Never retreats and never needs
If it's all alone
Desiree I wish you'd think of me



The Story of D.T. Jesus and the Subway Messiahs

"Streets," the latest release by Savatage, is a rock opera about a burnt-out
rock star named D.T. Jesus. Now D.T. was originally a high-volume drug dealer
from the lower east side of New York. He had become so legendary that his
clients started to refer to him as "The Savior on Avenue D," which eventually
evolved into Downtown Jesus, or D.T. Jesus for short.

But D.T.'s real passion was music. Whenever he could, he played in local
bars and to the surprise of all his friends, he was good; correction, he
was great. To his growing legions of fans, he was god, and the word spread.

Within a short time D.T. was signed to a major label and quickly went from
local cult status to world-wide phenomenon. His records sold millions, his
concerts sold out and his picture sold magazines. Unfortunately all was not
well in Oz. D.T. had started to use his own wares and they rapidly started
to show their effects. D.T. cancelled tour after tour, missed show after
show and failed to meet any of his recording commitments. Eventually dropped
by his label and bankrupt, he returns to the sanctuary of the New York
streets and the sheltering numbness of his addictions.

Occasionally, friends and ex-business relations would try to pull him out
of his self-made abyss, but all efforts were in vain. Then one day D.T.
encountered an old blues guitarist that he idolized in his youth. Seeing
this great man reduced to a sad, ghostly shadow, D.T. realizes that this
is a reflection of his own future.

Determined to avoid this fate and regain what he once had, D.T. pulls
his life together and, with the help of his friend and road manager Tex,
defies the skeptics and starts his comeback. Quitting all his substance
abuses cold, he starts a series of comeback performances at the city's
largest club, and after several glowing reviews, his shows are completely
sold out. However, just when it looked like he was home free, a visitor
from his past confronts him, alone, in the club after a rehearsal. It is
Sammy, a drug dealer that D.T. owes a great deal of money to from his
drug consuming days. Not realizing that D.T. is now clean, Sammy believes
none of the promises of rapid payment. He lashes out at D.T. assuming
that they are just more junkie lies, until Tex returns to turn the cards
on Sammy, pinning him to the wall. But Sammy follows no morals or rules,
and pulling a knife, he kills Tex and flees.

D.T. is overwhelmed by the rapid turn of events. For the first time in his
life he has tried to do the right thing and instead everything has gone
wrong. His best friend, who had never hurt anyone, is dead because of
him and he is left dealing with the largest crisis of his life without
the protective numbness of drugs to dull the edge of reality.

Angry, confused and filled with an overwhelming guilt, he flees the club,
running into the night. Exhausted, he finds himself in front of Saint
Patrick's Cathedral, whose side door has accidentally been left open
at this late hour. Going inside, he implores God to tell him why He lets
evil and pain exist. But receiving no audible reply, he returns to the
streets to think and search for an answer.

A homeless man, a pimp, a drug addict and a prostitute offer advice, but
no concrete solutions. The harder he searches for his answer, and through
this answer hopefully forgiveness, the more confused and guilt-ridden
he becomes. Wondering if the world would be better off without him, he
considers disappearing and ponders what he would really leave behind and
who would miss him. His thoughts turn to an old girlfriend, the one person
in the world that he had felt closest to and whom he had broken up with
during his drug bingeing days. He tries to reach her on the phone but is
unable to, and, hanging up, slowly starts to feel the growing temptation
to return to the mindlessness of drugs.

Walking down the street weighing his decision whether or not to recross
the line back to addiction, he is about to give in when he is distracted
by a crowd of people gathered around something on the sidewalk. Making
his way over to investigate, he finds an old derelict collapsed against
the side of an old brownstone tenement surrounded by a group of curious
onlookers. The man has been living on the street so long that his skin
had turned an oily black from lack of washing, and his white hair and
beard were gritty and matted. He was obviously dying, but he smelled
so bad that not even the police would go near him as they waited for the
ambulance to arrive.

Forgetting his own problems, and overcome with sympathy, he kneels down
and, taking hold of the old man's hand, lets him know that he is not
alone. (D.T. always believed that the worst possible fate was to dir alone.)
The old man looks gratefully into his eyes and then, with a sigh, passes
away. D.T., greatly saddened, gets up and is just about to leave when out
of the corner of his eye he sees the spectral figure of a young, blond,
blue-eyed child, stepping out of the old man's body. The child hesitates
for a moment, looking down at the form before him and then, turning away,
starts to walk up the stairs and into the tenement. Looking around, D.T.
realizes that no one else is witnessing this strange apparition except
himself and, after a moment's indecision, follows the child inside and up
the stairs.

Ending up on the roof overlooking the city, he finds the child standing
at the edge of the building staring towards the stars. All at once, D.T.
realizes that this is the spirit of the child that the old man was and
that it has come to plead for the old man's soul -- to ask forgiveness
for a wasted life, a lost dream, and permission to come home. At the end
of his song the child turns, smiles at D.T. and fades away into a gentle
flash of light and in the summer sky a faraway star glows with unusual
brightness. Feeling suddenly at peace with himself, D.T. returns home,
where he sleeps the sleep of the saved and dreams strange and wonderful
dreams.

Thanks to metallica1980m for sending track #17 lyrics.
Thanks to metallica1980m for correcting track #2 lyrics.
Thanks to theidiotupstairs for correcting track #5 lyrics.
Thanks to abolmich2, houssam_81, metallica1980m for correcting track #12 lyrics.
Thanks to black2dark for correcting track #16 lyrics.


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