The Wake Of Magellan Lyrics - Singles - Savatage

EACH MAN HAS A SOUL 

THAT STRUGGLES TO ESCAPE 

AND IN THE SHALLOWS OF HIS DREAMS 

WE CAN OFTEN SEE ITS WAKE 

FOR WE ALL HAVE OUR SECRETS 

THAT WE ALL KEEP DEEP INSIDE 

AWAY FROM LIGHT, IN DARKEST NIGHT 

WHERE IT'S ALWAYS SAFE TO HIDE 

AWAY FROM ALL THAT WE SHOULD MEET 

LESS SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD SHARE 

THAT THING THAT HIDES INSIDE OUR SOUL 

THAT WE PRAY WAS NEVER THERE 

AND OUT UPON THAT OCEAN 

A LIFETIME FROM THE SHORE 

MIGUEL STOOD HIS NIGHT WATCH 

RECALLING EVERYTHING HE SAW 

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FOR HE WAS A DECKHAND 

ABOARD THE "MAERSK DUBAI" 

HE HAD SAILED HER ROUND THE WORLD 

FROM HAMBURG TO SENDAI 

BUT THIS TRIP HAD BEEN DIFFERENT 

MORE THAN ANY HE HAD KNOWN 

FOR ON BOARD THERE WAS AN EVIL 

AND THE EVIL HAD BEEN SHOWN 

FOR HALFWAY THROUGH THIS VOYAGE 

THEY HAD FOUND TWO STOWAWAYS 

THAT THE CAPTAIN HAD THROWN IN THE SEA 

AND LEFT THEM TO THE WAVES 

AND WHEN HE TRIED TO CLOSE HIS EYES 

AND PRETEND HE DID NOT KNOW 

THE EVIL DID NOT GO AWAY 

BUT USED THE TIME TO GROW 

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FOR LATER ON THAT SAME TRIP 

THEY FOUND A STOWAWAY ONCE AGAIN 

BUT THE CAPTAIN SOON MET THIS ONE TOO 

AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE SAME COLD END 

HE WONDERED WHAT THAT BOY THOUGHT INSIDE 

BEFORE THAT FINAL SLEEP 

WHEN WATER WAS ALL THAT WAS AROUND 

AND HIS LUNGS HAD SCREAMED BREATHE DEEP 

HE WONDERED WHAT WENT THROUGH HIS MIND 

AS HE GASPED FOR AIR 

AND THE LAST MOMENT WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HELP 

TO FIND NOBODY THERE 

HE WONDERED TO HIMSELF 

IF HE COULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE 

TO STAND UP AT THAT MOMENT 

AND SAY THIS CANNOT BE DONE 

TO STAND UP TO THE CAPTAIN 

AND SAY THIS THING IT CANNOT BE 

BUT THERE IS NOTHING CLOSER TO GOD ON EARTH 

THAN A CAPTAIN ON THE SEA 

AND HE WAS JUST A DECKHAND 

WITH NO RIGHT TO PLEAD THE CASE 

OF THIS STRANGER IN THEIR MIDST 

AND SO HE KEPT HIS PLACE 

AND WHAT IS DONE IS DONE 

AND UNDONE CANNOT BE 

AND SO HE PUSHED IT FROM HIS MIND 

AND STARED OUT ACROSS THE SEA 

10. The Wake Of Magellan 

[Music & Words: Jon Oliva, Chris Caffery, Johnny Lee Middleton, Paul O'Neill] 

As he stood upon the watch deck 

Looking out onto the sea 

It would offer no solutions 

Only silent company 

So he took hold of the reasons 

As he tried to understand 

But they offered just confusion 

As they bled into his hands 

Dear god 

Couldn't you decide 

What should happen to a man's assassins 

Dear god 

Is it suicide 

I have never been a man of passions 

I believe what the prophets said 

That the oceans hold their dead 

But at night when the waves are near 

They whisper 

And I hear 

There are wounds that bleed inside us 

There are wounds we never see 

They are part of our refinements 

That allow a man to be 

There are wounds that bleed in silence 

With aristocratic grace 

There are tears we keep beside them 

Never seen upon a face 

Dear god 

Do you think it's wise 

To remember everything that has ever happened 

Dear god 

Could we compromise 

Or must the shadows of this night be everlasting 

I believe what the prophets said 

That the oceans hold their dead 

As I contemplate this stand 

What I do 

Is who I am 

I believe what the prophets said 

That the oceans hold their dead 

But at night when the waves are near 

They whisper 

And I hear 

Don't see the storms are forming 

Don't see or heed the warning 

Don't hear the sound of tyrants 

Surrounded by the silence 

Columbus and Magellan and de gama 

Sailed upon the ocean 

In a world of ignorance 

With thoughts so primitive 

That men were killed 

With no more will 

Than that they simply had the notion 

But in this world of heartless men 

This thing they never did 

Don't hear it 

Don't hear it 

Don't hear it 

Don't hear it 

Got to keep it underground 

Pretend you never heard a sound 

If they find it kill it blind it 

If they find it kill it blind it 

Lord tell me what is to be 

Lord tell me what is to be 

They whisper and I hear 

AFTER A NIGHT OF LITTLE SLEEP 

HE OPENED THE GANGWAY DOOR 

AND FELT HIS WORLD COLLAPSING 

NOT BELIEVING WHAT HE SAW 

FOR THERE WITH HANDS ABOVE HIS HEAD 

WAS A FOURTH STOWAWAY 

TRYING TO SURRENDER 

NOT KNOWING THE PRICE HE WOULD PAY 

MIGUEL KNEW HE MUST ACT QUICKLY 

IF THE LAD WAS TO HAVE ANY HOPE 

SO HE POINTED TO THE CAPTAIN 

AND RAN A FINGER CROSS HIS THROAT 

AND THOUGH HE SPOKE LITTLE ENGLISH 

THE STOWAWAY SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND 

AND FOLLOWED MIGUEL TO A HIDING SPOT 

AND PLACED HIS LIFE INTO HIS HANDS 

AFTER MANY DAYS IN FEAR 

THEY SAFELY REACHED THE PORT 

AND THERE THE STOWAWAY WAS SET FREE 

AND THE CAPTAIN BROUGHT TO COURT 

BUT THEN THINGS TOOK AN EVIL TWIST 

AND JUSTICE SEEMED TO FAIL 

FOR MIGUEL WAS HELD AS A REFUGEE 

AND THE CAPTAIN FREED ON BAIL 

AND THE COMPANY OF THE MAERSK DUBAI 

BROUGHT LAWYERS BY THE PACK 

WHO WOULD SEARCH FOR TECHNICALITIES 

TO LET THE CASE SLIP THROUGH THE CRACKS 

SO WHILE THE LAWYERS SEARCH FOR LOOPHOLES 

MIGUEL STILL SITS AND WAITS 

IN SOME SMALL ROOM, HIS FUTURE RUINED 

WHILE JUSTICE HESITATES 

AND I WONDER WHAT THE CAPTAIN THINKS 

EACH EVENING IN HIS BED 

AND IF HE SHARES HIS DREAMS AT NIGHT 

WITH THE RECENT DEAD 

FOR CAPTAIN THERE WILL BE A DAY 

WHEN YOUR SOUL WILL WASH UP ON HEAVEN'S SHORE 

I PRAY THAT WHEN YOU REACH THAT DAY 

THAT GOD'S MERCY IS MORE THAN YOURS 

AND SOMETIMES IN THE EVENING 

MIGUEL WILL TAKE LONG WALKS 

AND LIKE THE OLD SAILOR BEFORE HIM 

WITH THE OCEAN HE WILL TALK 

AND AS HE WALKS ALONG 

HE BREATHES IN THE OCEAN'S MORPHINE MIST 

AND LOOKING ONCE MORE ACROSS THE NIGHT 

DARES THE STARS TO GRANT A WISH