SAVATAGE

SAVATAGE

FROM THE GUTTER TO THE STAGE (1996) CD 2

  1. Shotgun Innocence
  2. Forever After
  3. This Is Where You Should Be
  4. D.T. Jesus

SAVATAGE

FROM THE GUTTER TO THE STAGE CD 2

1. SHOTGUN INNOCENCE

She's got shotgun innocence
In her eyes so intense
Never sure of her intent

She's a Paris pretty child
Even's got a wink that's styled
Keeps it all behind a smile

Look into those worldly eyes
And you've got to wonder what she's done
No use thinking you can win her
Cause boy this child's already won

And it's time that you stand up
Show's on
Here's why you paid
Hold tight
Net's gone
So welcome to the stage
And it's too late to be saved

She don't need designer dress
Has them all though I would guess
Has the wardrobe of the blessed

Cover of a magazine
Movie star
Beauty queen
All wrapped up and razor clean

Locking up is really so much harder that is seems
See her as a revelation
Much more safely visited in dreams

And it's that you stand up
Show's on
Here's why you paid

Hold tight
Net's gone
So welcome to the stage
And it's too late to be saved

So you find your dreaming 'bout her
But it's such a little vice
And if you think you've got a chance boy
Well it's time to roll the dice

And it's time that you
Stand up
Show's on
Here's why you paid
Hold tight
Net's gone
So welcome to the stage
And it's too late to be saved.

2. FOREVER AFTER

You watch the news on your color TV
Are you immune to what you see
Death and destruction
Till it numbs your mind
To the rise and fall of all man kind

Hey you
What ya gonna do
When it's your world they're selling out
But
You got plot
Smokin' your pot
Till the trees are all dead
You never new
Hadn't a clue
You can't hide your head
In your hands
Nobody's safe
Forever after

Lets kill the leaders
Make it end
But then we realize
We are them

We buy the plastics
Burn the fuels
We make the choice
We are the rules

Hey you
What ya gonna do
When it's your world they're selling out

But
You got your plot
Smokin' your pot
Till the trees are all dead
You never knew
Hadn't a clue
You can't hide your head in your hands
No one's safe
Forever after.

3. THIS IS WHERE YOU SHOULD BE

4. D.T. JESUS

Jesus was a talker
Out of peace New Yorker
Hung out on the boulevard
Sellin nickel candies
Saving all his quarters
Bought himself a cheap guitar

Started playin bars
The kids came in their cars
You'd hurt them shouting at the stage

Jesus saves
Jesus saves
Hear him cut through the night
On your late night radio waves

Jesus started changin
Things got really strange
He saw his iff shirts everywhere
Started missing shows
The band came down to blows
But Jesus he no longer cared

Things got out of hand
And so he quit the band
But still the critics they would rave

Jesus saves
Jesus saves
Hear him cut through the night
On your late night radio waves

So the dice were cast
Today became the past
And Jesus he just disappeared
Headed for New York
Or so his label thought
And there he gave away the years

Last seen drinking wine
Beneath a flashing sign
Promising salvation to strays

Jesus saves
Jesus saves
Hear him cut through the night
On your late night radio waves.

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