Savatage
Savatage (/ˈsævətɑːʒ/) is an American heavy metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Savatage has released eleven studio albums, two live albums, four compilations and three EPs. The band experienced major American commercial success with the release of their third studio album, Fight for the Rock (1986), which peaked at number No. 158 on the Billboard 200. Their next four albums — Hall of the Mountain King (1987), Gutter Ballet (1989), Streets: A Rock Opera (1991) and Edge of Thorns (1993) — were also successful but more critically acclaimed than Fight for the Rock.
After Criss' death in 1993, Jon (along with producer Paul O'Neill) decided to continue Savatage in memory of his brother. The band released four more studio albums, and went through several line-up changes before going on hiatus in 2002. During the years, members founded various new bands such as Jon Oliva's Pain, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Circle II Circle and Doctor Butcher. On August 2, 2014, Savatage announced that they were reuniting for Wacken Open Air in 2015.
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ALBUMS
- Streets: A Rock Opera released: 2011
- Handful of Rain released: 2011
- Still the Orchestra Plays: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 & 2 released: 2010
- Unplugged released: 2003
- Fight for the Rock released: 2002
- Gutter Ballet released: 2002
- Poets and Madmen released: 2001
- Ghost in the Ruins: A Tribute to Criss Oliva released: 2000
- Believe released: 1998
- The Wake of Magellan released: 1998
- The Best and the Rest released: 1997
- Power of the Night released: 1997
- Edge of Thorns released: 1997
- Japan Live '94 released: 1995
- Dead Winter Dead released: 1995
- Sirens / The Dungeons Are Calling released: 1994
- Hall of the Mountain King released: 1987
- Live in USA released: 1985
- Sirens released: 1983
- Port Jefferson, NY Acoustic Show released:
Believe
Released 1998- Believe
- Visions
- Taunting Cobras
- Handful Of Rain
- Chance
- Sarajevo
- This Is The Time (1990)
- This Isn't What We Meant
- Christmas EveSarajevo 12-24
- Edge of Thorns [Live]
- Gutter Ballet [Live]
- The Dungeons are Calling (live)
- Sirens (Live)
- Criss Oliva Guitar Solo [Live]
- Hall of the Mountain King (live)
- Alone You Breathe
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by Savatage
Believe
by: SavatageSo 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 the up
You found that they 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...