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 classic 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 hourglass
   They were never unearved
   Still we seemed destined to watch them pass
   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...