Paragons Of Innocence Lyrics - Singles - Savatage

Day 

Into night 

Into day 

Into I don't know you anymore 

But I stand 

Where you say 

Thinking all the time you planned it 

You've been gone away too long 

Leaving us to carry on 

Though in truth you never tried 

Just stepped back and watched the slide 

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Paragons of innocence 

Questioning of your intent 

Never quite sure what you meant 

From the other side 

Moments on the carousel 

Must admit we ride it well 

And the horses never tell 

All throughout the ride 

That no one leaves 

No one leaves 

No one leaves... 

Alive 

Time 

On my hands 

Slips away 

Till I just don't feel it anymore 

Thinking back 

Photos 

When I can 

To the time when it began with 

Bits of dreams all in a line 

And somehow we missed the signs 

That it all was never real 

And in truth a fatal deal 

Paragons of innocence 

Questioning of your intent 

Never quite sure what you meant 

From the other side 

Moments on the carousel 

Must admit we ride it well 

And the horses never tell 

All throughout the ride 

No one leaves 

No one leaves 

No one leaves... 

Alive 

There always comes a time 

When you do what you want to do 

You know you shouldn't do it 

But you do it anyway 

And when he had that time 

When he knew what he wanted to 

He quickly placed his order 

Though he never thought he'd pay 

But the lines turned to lies 

And the lies turned to tangles 

And you're pale as a cadaver 

Though you think it doesn't show 

So you live with the lies 

And the friends that it gathers 

But somewhere in your heart you know you 

Got to let it 

Got to let it 

Go 

Paragons of innocence 

Questioning of your intent 

Never quite sure what you meant 

From the other side 

Moments on the carousel 

Must admit we ride it well 

And the horses never tell 

All throughout the ride 

No one leaves 

No one leaves 

No one leaves... 

Alive 

Then the sailor picked a coat up 

That had been laying there 

And placed it over the body 

And then he said a little prayer 

And the ocean brought in on a wave 

An old waterlogged wreath 

And pushed it up along the sand 

Till it touched the dead man's feet 

And written on that wreath 

In letters of gold foil 

Was the name veronica guerin 

But the letters were bent and soiled 

The sailor said I see these flowers 

That you so kindly gave 

Are obviously from far away 

And from another's grave 

And I cannot help but to think 

The sailor gently said 

That it's unwise in god eyes 

To steal flowers from the dead 

The ocean said please trust me friend 

This gift will cause no pain 

And the person to whom they once belonged 

Would surely say the same 

You see this wreath was from the funeral 

Of a woman who showed no fear 

Of men who lived in mansions 

Bought with other people's tears 

Of men who lived in mansions 

Bought with bits of others lives 

Who at night still hugged their children 

And brought gifts home to their wives 

With money made from heroin 

And packets of cocaine 

And if a buyer overdosed 

They never felt the pain 

There were many flowers at her funeral 

But none for this boy I fear 

So the wind has blown this wreath to me 

And I have brought it here 

She gave her life to stop the spread 

Of drugs among her kind 

And if we leave these flowers for this boy 

I'm sure she wouldn't mind