Savatage - All That I Bleed (Live in Milan, Italy 2025) Video

The song portrays a person grappling with hidden emotional pain, revealed through a letter that exposes their inner struggles, with the plea for night to "soak up all that I bleed" symbolizing a desire for escape or relief from their suffering. It reflects themes of vulnerability, betrayal by one’s own heart, and a longing to flee from overwhelming personal turmoil.

All That I Bleed Lyrics (Edge of Thorns, 1993):

Someone got themselves a letter
In the mail the other day
It's already worn and tattered
And I guess it gives away
All the things we keep inside
All the things that really matter
The face puts on its best disguise
And all is well until the heart betrays
She knows as she reads her letter
That things were bound to stray
Winds blow, she pulls her coat tighter
And the letter flies away
With all the things she keeps inside
All the things that really matter
The face puts on its best disguise
And all is well until the heart betrays
Lord, bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed
Lord, bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed
And I'll fly away
Yeah, I'll fly away
Yeah, I'll fly away
Watch me
Lord, bring on the night
Wrap it all around me
Let it hold me tight
Soak up all that I bleed
I bleed

John Oliva
Zachary Stevens
Al Pitrelli
Chris Caffery
Johnny Lee Middleton
Jeff Plate
Criss Oliva
Alex Skolnick
Savatage is an American heavy metal band founded by brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1979 in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The band was first called Avatar, but, shortly before the release of their debut album Sirens (1983), they changed their name to Savatage, as Avatar was already taken by another band. Savatage is considered a significant member of the American heavy metal movement of the early-to-mid-1980s and has been cited as a key influence on many genres, such as power metal, progressive metal, speed metal, thrash metal, death metal and symphonic metal.
Savatage has released eleven studio albums, two live albums, four compilations and three EPs. The band first reached substantial commercial success with its third studio album Fight for the Rock (1986), which peaked at number 158 on the Billboard 200. Its next four albums—Hall of the Mountain King (1987), Gutter Ballet (1989), Streets: A Rock Opera (1991) and Edge of Thorns (1993)—were also successful but more critically acclaimed than Fight for the Rock. On October 17, 1993, six months after the release of Edge of Thorns, guitarist Criss Oliva was killed in a car accident. Following his death, Jon (along with producer Paul O'Neill) decided to continue Savatage in memory of his brother. The band released four more studio albums, Handful of Rain, Dead Winter Dead, The Wake of Magellan, Poets & Madmen, and went through several line-up changes before going on an extended hiatus in 2002. During the years—partly even before the hiatus—members founded various new bands such as Jon Oliva's Pain, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Circle II Circle and Doctor Butcher. On August 2, 2014, Savatage announced that they were reuniting for the 2015 Wacken Open Air; despite having discussed the possibility of more shows and new music, the band went on hiatus once again. Although Savatage technically remains inactive, half of the members of the band claimed in interviews during throughout 2020 and 2021 that they have been working on new material for a possible follow-up to Poets and Madmen (2001).