Zespół

• James LaBrie – śpiew
• John Myung – gitara basowa
• John Petrucci – gitara elektryczna
• Mike Portnoy – instrumenty perkusyjne
• Jordan Rudess – instrumenty klawiszowe
• Eugene Friesen - wiolonczela w utworze Vacant

Lista utworów

1. • 1. As I Am [7:47]

   • • Don't
       Tell me what's in
       Tell me how to write
       Don't tell me how to win
       This fight
       Isn't your life
       It isn't your right
       To take the only thing that's
       Mine

       Proven over time
       It's over your head
       Don't try to read between the
       Lines
       Are clearly defined
       Never lose sight of
       Something you believe in

       Takin' in the view from the outside
       Feeling like the underdog
       Watching through the window I'm on the outside
       Living like the underdog

       I've been trying to justify you
       In the end I will just defy you

       To those who understand, I extend my hand
       To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am
       Not under your command, I know where I stand
       I won't change to fit your plan, Take me as I am

       As I am

       Still
       Running uphill
       Swimming against the current
       I wish I weren't so
       Fucked
       Feels like I'm stuck
       Lost in a sea of mediocrity

       ''Slow down,
       You're thinking too much
       Where is your soul?''
       You cannot touch
       The way I
       Play
       Or tell me what to say

       You're in the way
       Of all that I believe in

       Takin' in the view from the outside
       Feeling like the underdog
       Watching through the window I'm on the outside
       Living like the underdog
       I've been wasting my breath on you
       Open minds will descend upon you

       To those who understand, I extend my hand
       To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am
       Not under your command, I know where I stand
       I won't change to fit your plan, take me as I am

2. • 2. This Dying Soul [11:28]

   • • Hello, Mirror - so glad to see you my friend, it's been a while
       Searching, Fearless - where do I begin to heal this wound of self-denial

       Face yourself man!
       Brace yourself and trace your hell back

       You've been blinded, living lie a one way cold existence all the while
       Now it's time to stare the problem right between the eyes you long lost child

       I wanna feel your body breaking
       Wanna feel your body breaking and shaking and left in the cold
       I want to heal your conscience making a change o fix this dying soul

       Born into this world a broken home
       Surrounded by love yet all alone
       Forced into a life that's split in two
       A mother and a father both pulling you

       Then you had to deal with loss and death
       Everybody thinking they know best

       Coping with this shit at such an age
       Can only fill a kid with pain and rage

       Family disease pumped through your blood
       Never had the chance you thought you could
       Running all the while with no escape
       Turning all that pain in to blame and hate

       Living on your own by twenty one
       Not a single care and having fun

       Consuming all the life in front of you
       Burning out the fuse and smoking the residue

       Possessive obsessions selfish childish games
       Vengeful resentments
       Passing all the blame
       Living out a life of decadence
       Acing without thought of consequence
       Spreading all your lies from coast to coast
       While spitting on the ones that matter most

       Running power mad with no control
       Fighting for the credit they once stole
       No one can ever tell you what to do
       Ruling other's lives while the can't stand the thought of you

       A living reflection seen from miles away
       A hopeless affliction having run astray

       I wanna feel your body breaking
       Wanna feel your body breaking and shaking and left in the cold
       I want to heal your conscience making a change o fix this dying soul

       Now that you can see all you have done
       It's time to take that step into the kingdom
       All your sins will only make you strong
       And help you break right through the prison wall

       [V. Release]
       Come to me my friend (Listen to me)
       I'll help this torture end (Help to set me free)
       Let your ego go (I can't carry this load)
       You can't go through this alone (I feel so hopeless and exposed)
       You'll find your peace of mind (Give me some direction)
       You can no longer hide (Break out of this isolation)
       Let humility (Openness, honesty)
       And become what you can be (A healing tranquility)

       Help me
       Save me
       Heal me
       I can't break out of this prison all alone

       These tormenting ghosts of yesterday
       Will vanish when exposed
       You can't hold onto your secrets
       They'll only send you back alone

       Your fearless admissions
       Will help expel your destructive obsessions
       With my help I know you can
       Be at one with God and man

       Hear me
       Believe me
       Take me
       I'm ready to break right through this prison wall

   • IV. Reflections of Reality (Revisited)
   • V. Release
3. • 3. Endless Sacrifice [11:23]

   • • Cold
       Lying in my bed
       Staring into darkness

       Lost
       I hear footsteps overhead
       And my thoughts return
       Again

       Like a child who's run away
       And won't be coming back
       Time keeps passing by
       As night turns into day

       I'm so far away
       And so alone
       I need to see your face
       To keep me sane
       To make we whole

       Try to stay alive
       Until I hear your voice
       I'm gonna lose my mind
       Someone tell me why
       I chose this life
       This superficial lie
       Constant compromise
       Endless sacrifice

       Pain
       It saddens me to know
       The helplessness you feel
       Your light
       Shines on my soul
       While a thousand candles
       Burn

       Outside this barren room
       The rain is pouring down
       The emptiness inside
       Is growing deeper still

       You're so far away
       And so alone
       You long for love's embrace
       To keep you sane
       To make you whole

       Try to stay alive
       Until I hear your voice
       I'm gonna lose my mind

       Someone tell me why
       I chose this life
       This superficial lie
       Constant compromise
       Endless sacrifice

       Moments wasted
       Isolated
       Time escaping
       Endless sacrifice

       Moments wasted
       Isolated
       Time escaping
       Endless sacrifice

       Over the distance
       We try to make sense
       Of surviving together
       While living apart

       Striving for balance
       We rise to the challenge
       Of staying connected
       In spite of circumstance

       All you've forsaken
       And all that you've done
       So that I could live out
       This undying dream

       Won't be forgotten
       Or taken for granted
       I'll always remember
       Your endless sacrifice

       Moments wasted
       Isolated
       Time escaping
       Endless sacrifice

       Moments wasted
       Isolated
       Time escaping
       Endless sacrifice

4. • 4. Honor Thy Father [10:14]

   • • We're taught unconditional love
       That blood is thicker than water
       That a parent's world would revolve
       Always around their son or their daughter

       You pretend I was your own
       And even believed that you loved me
       But were always threatened by some
       Invisible blood line that only you could see

       You took advantage of an outreached hand
       And twisted it to meet your every need
       ''Gimme time to re-charge my batteries,
       I'll see her when she's older and I'll bounce her on my knee''

       Well listen to me you ungrateful fool
       Here comes a dose of reality
       You'll go to your grave a sad and lonely man
       The door is now closed on your pathetic little plan

       On and on and on and on it goes
       It's so easy to run away with nothing in tow

       How can you ever sleep a wink at night
       Pretending that everything is alright
       And have the nerve to blame this mess on me

       Never in my life have I seen someone
       So Ignorant to the damage he has done
       You're the rotted root in the family tree

       I tried your 4 bill therapy
       I tried to make amends
       But nothing could lure you out of your selfish shell again
       Expecting everyone to bow and kiss your feet
       Don't you see respect is not a one way street
       Blaming everyone for all that you've don e wrong
       I'll get my peace of mind when you hear this song

       On and on and on and on it goes
       And with every passing day true colors show

       How can you ever sleep a wink at night
       Pretending that everything is alright
       And have the balls to blame this mess on me

       Never in my life have I seen someone
       Oblivious to the damage he has done
       You're the rotted root in the family tree

       Watch where you walk
       Don't you dare cross the crooked step
       Watch the way you talk
       Don't cross the crooked step

       On and on and on and on it goes
       Chauvinistic, heartless, selfish, cold

       How can you ever sleep a wink at night
       Pretending that everything is alright
       And have the balls to blame this shit on me

       Never in my life have I seen someone
       So fucking blind to the damage he has done
       You're the rotted root in the family tree

5. • 5. Vacant [2:58]

   • • Hey you, Hey you
       I'm right here
       Conscience fading
       Can't get through

       Oh Lord
       Helpless
       Confused
       Head swayed
       Eyes glazed
       And mine teared

       She's losing control
       What can I do
       Her vacant eyes
       Black holes
       Am I losing you

6. 6. Stream Of Consciousness [11:16] (instrumental)
7. • 7. In The Name Of God [14:16]

   • • How can this be?
       Why is he the chosen one?

       Saint gone astray
       With a scepter and a gun

       Learn to believe
       In the mighty and the strong

       Come bleed the beast
       Follow me it won't be long

       Listen when the prophet
       Speaks to you
       Killing in the name of God

       Passion
       Twisting faith into violence
       In the name of God

       Straight is the path
       Leading to your salvation
       Slaying the weak
       Ethnic elimination

       Any day we'll all be
       Swept away
       You'll be saved
       As long as you obey

       Lies
       Tools of the devil inside
       Written in Holy disguise
       Meant to deceive and divide
       Us all

       Listen when the prophet
       Speaks to you
       Killing in the name of God

       Passion
       Twisting faith into violence
       In the name of God

       Blurring the lines
       Between virtue and sin
       They can't tell
       Where God ends
       And mankind begins

       They know no other
       Life but this
       From the cradle
       They are claimed

       Listen when the prophet
       Speaks to you
       Killing in the name of God

       Passion
       Twisting faith into violence
       In the name of God

       Hundreds of believers
       Lured into a doomsday cult
       All would perish
       In the name of God

       Self-proclaimed messiah
       Led his servants
       To their death
       Eighty murdered
       In the name of God

       Forty sons and daughters
       Un-consenting plural wives
       Perversions
       In the name of God

       Underground religion
       Turning toward
       The mainstream light
       Blind devotion
       In the name of God

       Justifying violence
       Citing from the Holy Book
       Teaching hatred
       In the name of God

       Listen when the prophet
       Speaks to you
       Killing in the name of God

       Passion
       Twisting faith into violence
       In the name of God

       Religious beliefs
       Fanatic obsession
       Does following faith
       Lead us to violence?

       Unyielding crusade
       Divine revelation
       Does following faith
       Lead us to violence?

       [Chant:]
       Mine eyes have seen the glory
       of the coming of the Lord
       he is trampling out the vintage
       where the grapes of wrath are stored
       he hath loosed the fateful lightning
       of his terrible swift sword
       his truth is marching on.

       glory, glory, hallelujah
       glory, glory, hallelujah
       glory, glory, hallelujah...

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