Somewhere in time & Believe

En el albúm "Streets of Rock Opera" (1991) de Savatage aparecen estas dos baladas enlazándose una con otra, tras unas leves notas de piano.

La progresión en crescendo de ambas me pone los pelos como escarpias. Sobre todo en la segunda, donde un ritmo melódico acaba adquiriendo un tono desgarrador.

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

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 things 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 dreams 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 hide
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 walk 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 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 no longer 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
And all I ask of you
Believe

WEBSITE OFICIAL: SAVATAGE

First Love

Una balada que habla sobre la huella imborrable que deja el primer amor. Perteneciente al Lp "Soldiers under Command" (1985) del grupo de Metal Cristiano STRYPER.

She waits alone, oh every night
Tears are in her eyes
She has lost all the love she had
She lived her life for Him each day
She threw it all away
To live for herself - live her life her way / (chorus
There is no love like the love of your first love
It's so true
It's for you as you are
Tears in the night
Filled with pain
You're running from the love
That you had once before - your first love
Someone to hold you though the pain
To make you smile again
And to protect you forever
Someone to take your fears away
To help you through each day
To carry you when you just can't go on / (chorus)
There is no love like the love of your first love
It's so true
Your love will never leave you
Tears in the night / Filled with pain
You're running from the love
That you had before you cried out for your first love / (chorus)

WEBSITE OFICIAL: STRYPER

Still loving you

La balada más emblemática de la historia del rock. Entonada con la inconfundible factura vocal de Klaus Meine, el cantante de SCORPIONS.

Versión con la Filarmónica de Berlín:



Segundo single de su album "Love at First Sting" (1984). Si queréis saber más: Wikipedia.

Time, it needs time
to win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
love, only love
can bring back your love someday
I will be there, I will be there e

I'll fight, babe, I'll fight
to win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
love, only love amor,
can break down the walls someday
I will be there, I will be there

If we'd go again
all the way from the start p
I would try to change
the things that killed our love
your pride has built a wall so strong
that I can't get through
is there really no chance
to start once again
I'm loving you

Try, baby, try
to trust in my love again
I will be there, I will be there
love, our love amor,
just shouldn't be thrown away
I will be there, I will be there

If we'd go again
all the way from the start
I would try to change
the things that killed our love
your pride has built a wall so strong
that I can't get through
Is there really no chance
to start once again

If we'd go again
all the way from the start
I would try to change
the things that killed our love
yes, I've hurt your pride and I know
what you've been through
you should give me a chance
this can't be the end
I'm still loving you
I'm still loving, I need your love aún
I'm still loving you...

WEBSITE OFICIAL: SCORPIONS