Tabulature for "Not What You See"
Off the album "Dead Winter Dead"
Written by Savatage
Transcribed by Brent Passarella
brent42@cris.com
* Piano arranged for guitar
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intro piano:1 X2
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No Life's So Short it can't turn around
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You can't spend your life living underground
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For from above you don't hear a sound
**piano chords on top
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And I'm out here Waiting I don't understand
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What you want me to be It's the
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Dark you're Hating It's not who I am
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But I know that it's all that you see
piano:1 X2
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No life's so short that it never learns
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No flame so small that it never burns
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No page so sure that it never turns and i'm
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out here Waiting I don't understand
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What you want me to be It's the
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Dark you're hating It's not who I am But I
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Know that it's all that you see
Exit riff
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Can you live your life in a day Putting every mom-ent in play
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Never hear a word that they say As you watch the wheels go around
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Tell me if you win would it show In a thousand years who will know
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As a million lives come and go On this same piece of ground
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I've been wait-ing
Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play
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I don't understand what you want me to be
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
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Tell me if you win would it show In a thousand years who will know
It's the dark you're hating
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As a million lives come and go On this same piece of ground
It's not who I am but it is what you see.
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I've been wait-ing
Tell me if you really want to See me leave this night without you
Can you live your life in a day putting every mom-ent in play
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I don't understand what you want me to be
Would you ever look about you Wondering where we might be
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
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Tell me if you win would it show In a thousand years who will know
It's the dark you're Hat-ing
New York is so far away now Tokyo, Berlin, and Moscow
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As a million lives come and go On this same piece of ground
It's not who I am but it is what you see
Only dreams from here but somehow One day the world we will see
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I've been wait-ing
Tell me if you really want to See me leave this night without you
Can you live your life in a day putting every mom-ent in play
I don't understand I don't understand
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I don't understand what you want me to be
Would you ever look about you Wondering where we might be
Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around
I don't understand I don't understand
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Tell me if you win would it show In a thousand years who will know
It's the dark you're Hat-ing
New York is so far away now Tokyo, Berlin, and Moscow
I don't understand I don't understand
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As a million lives come and go On this same piece of ground
It's not who I am but it is what you see
Only dreams from here but somehow One day the world we will see
I don't understand I don't understand what I see
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I swear on tomorrow if you take this chance
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Our lives are this moment the music, the dance
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And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries
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I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see
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You're all that I see
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This was originally transcribed October 25th...one day after the
album was released...Fast enought for everyone?
Brent