SURVIVOR - EVER SINCE THE WOLD BEGAN

EVER SINCE THE WOLD BEGAN

SURVIVOR

SONGWRITER: JAMES M. PETERIK & FRANKIE M., III SULLIVAN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: EYE OF THE TIGER

LABEL: SCOTT BROTHERS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1982

 

         Survivor are an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1978 by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan. The band achieved its best success in the 1980s, producing many charting singles, especially in the United States. The band is best-known for its double-platinum-certified 1982 hit "Eye of the Tiger", the theme song for the 1982 motion picture Rocky III; that single spent six weeks at number one in the US. The band continued to chart in the mid-1980s with singles like "Burning Heart" (US number 2), "The Search Is Over" (US number 4), "High on You" (US number 8), "Is This Love" (US number 9), and "I Can't Hold Back" (US number 13).

          "Ever Since the World Began" is a power ballad by American rock band Survivor, released in 1982 from the group's third album Eye of the Tiger. Composed by the band's guitarist Frankie Sullivan and keyboardist Jim Peterik, the song was written for someone fighting against cancer; Frankie Sullivan said in an interview that a member of his immediate family was battling the disease and later succumbed to it. He said the song had a lot of true meaning to him. It also had a lot of significance for co-writer Jim Peterik, as it was one of the final songs he played for his father before the latter's death shortly before the Eye of the Tiger album's release.

I'll never know what brought me here

As if somebody led my hand

It seems I hardly had to steer

My course was planned

And destiny, it guides us all

And by it's hand we rise and fall

But only for a moment

Time enough to catch our breath again

 

And we're just another piece of the puzzle

Just another part of the plan

How one life touches the other

Is so hard to understand

Still we walk this road together

We try and go as far as we can

And we have waited for this moment in time

Ever since the world began

 

Taken in the times gone by

We wonder how it all began

We never know and still we try

To understand

And even though the seasons change

The reasons shall remain the same

It's love that keeps us holding on

Till we can see the sun again

 

And we're just another piece of the puzzle

Just another part of the plan

And we have waited for this moment in time

Ever since the world began

 

And I stand alone a man of stone

Against the driving rain

And the night, it's got your number

And the wind, it cries your name

And we search for clues, win or lose

In this we're all the same

The hope still burns eternal

We're the keeper of the flame...

 

And we're just another piece of the puzzle

Just another part of the plan

How one life touches the other

Is so hard to understand

Still we walk this road together

We try and go as far as we can

And we have waited for this moment in time

Ever since the world began...