Believe

There are some songs that have a way to speak right to your heart. They reach past your ears and instead delve into the deepest part of you, digging around in forgotten secrets, exposing thoughts long since hidden, pushing on bruises thought to be healed. You can't just listen to them at any moment, because to listen is to invite tears.

This is one such song for me.

"Believe" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, originally a Savatage song.


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 they were not enough
To get you in and 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 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

I never wanted to know, never wanted to see
I wasted my time 'til time wasted me
I never wanted to go, always wanted to stay
'Cause the person I am are the parts that I play

So I plot and I plan, 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't 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