Savatage - Sarajevo / This Is The Time (1990) lyrics

A) Sarajevo In the town of Sarajevo There's an old medieval square There's a church aside one corner Most believe was always there It was built a thousand years before Any now were born And its glory was its belfry With its stones all gray and worn Now there's a gargoyle on that belfry And he's been up there for years And he has watched and he has pondered What is laughter What are tears For these peculiar institutions That are so well known to man When your heart is made of stone Are quite hard to understand And he's never found his answers As he sees the years go by But he watches and he wonders With his stone unblinking eyes... (it was the year of nineteen-ninety And the berlin wall was down And a thousand years regretted Now laid buried in the ground) (and the prophets read the future And the the omens all seemed kind In the cla**ic words of dickens It's surely was the best of times) B) This is the time (1990) Watching in silence I hesitate It was not in the plain All of our lives we could Only wait If was not in our hands And every war where we took the day They were all in our head And though in the dark we could dream at night They were better unsaid But this is the time And this is the place And these are the signs That we must embrace The moment is now In all history The time has arrived This is the one place to be We placed our years in the hourgla** They were never unearved Still we seemed destined to watch them pa** It was never our turn But this is the time And this is the place And those are the years That we must erase The moment is now In all history If we had to choose This is the one place to be...