Zespół

• Charlie Dominci – śpiew
• John Myung – gitara basowa
  
• John Petrucci – gitara elektryczna
• Mike Portnoy – instrumenty perkusyjne
• Kevin Moore – instrumenty klawiszowe

Lista utworów

• 1. A Fortune In Lies [5:12]

• • Tekst: John Petrucci

    "For the first time in a long time
    ...everything was right in my
    world... and then I woke up."

    I can remember when,
    In the unity of our five-day sessions
    Not even once did we hear the siren song
    What kind of imagination
    Asleep in some lyrical coma
    Who's vain futile memory
    Could have been so wrong?

    You can make a fortune in lies
    You can keep a giant alive
    You can ride the red
    Until everybody smiles
    A trifling euphoria
    was such an untimely religion
    maybe your life can explain
    the reason for my indecision
    Here is a poor man
    the heart of this monster creation
    He said we both will be heroes
    and I was led into temptation

    You can make a fortune in lies
    You can keep a giant alive
    You can ride the red
    Until everybody smiles

    Can you show me your gold
    and your silver?
    A hero in frozen water

    Now you've made a fortune in lies
    and you kept a giant alive
    You rode the red
    You rode the red

• 2. Status Seeker [4:15]

• • Tekst: Charlie Dominci, John Petrucci

    Heart sick at the sight of the
    Status Seeker
    In a sense I'm not beyond reproach
    the aspiration to drop a name
    When any rose might smell the same
    Maybe you'll figure it out someday
    "I want to know you now...
    You know I've always believed in you."

    Nothing is sacred...
    You draw the bottom line
    with a dollar sign
    Change of opinion...
    At the drop of a dime
    Graceless intrusion...
    Are you sanctified in your judgment of me?
    All that I deserve is what you were unable to see

    In a garden where the seeds were spilled
    I favored the few that stood strong in the sun
    As I reached for the profit of my prize
    I found I had trampled the forgotten ones

    Nothing is sacred...
    You draw the bottom line
    with a dollar sign
    Change of opinion...
    At the drop of a dime
    Graceless intrusion...
    Are you sanctified in your judgment of me?
    All that I deserve is what you were unable to see
    

    You're running in circles
    And I'm turning away
    You refused to believe
    Now I'm turning away

    Nothing is sacred...
    You draw the bottom line
    with a dollar sign
    Change of opinion...
    At the drop of a dime
    Graceless intrusion...
    Are you sanctified in your judgment of me?
    All that I deserve is what you were unable to see

    You're running in circles
    And I'm turning away
    You refused to believe
    Now I'm turning away

3. Ytse Jam [5:43] (instrumental)

• 4. The Killing Hand [8:40]

• • Tekst: John Petrucci

    [I. The Observance]

    An Angel's kiss now fallen
    Descending scarlet cuts the sky
    Faded names left on the wall
    Honor the fighting leave life to die

    Remembered is the sacrifice but
    No praisal of blood still flowing
    Who were the leaders?
    what controlled the Killing Hand
    that caused this mouthing?

    Crossing over...

    [II. Ancient Renewal]

    Lowered deep into the sea
    Being a waits to cleanse his soul
    senses weakening time is still
    Motionless by stiffening cold

    The wheels race back and
    Scorch his mind
    Travelling all to find the land
    Revelation warms a touch
    And now he will begin to
    Understand

    [III. The Stray Seed]

    Extended a view to yesterday
    Manifestation for none the same
    Walking amidst a frightening still
    No sound, no smoke, no scorching
    Flames

    He is risen...

    Sipping his poison the raven sings
    Yet another to add more bodies
    fallen
    King from below
    this one controls
    the Killing Hand that caused this
    mourning

    Is it all over?

    [IV. Thorns]

    Evil genius this secret plan
    Mercy dealt with the losing hand
    Will he ever fall?
    Can he end it all?
    Our savior must make his stand

    Only a Propher of years to come
    Wanting mortality I'm all alone
    He heard my voice
    It was my choice
    I've stopped the Killing Hand

    [V. Exodus]

    When I go back again
    Will it be the same?
    I've stopped the cries
    But now they know my name

    The sea is calling me
    my spirit must return
    As I get closer,
    was it really worth
    what I have learned?

    I'm in the valley
    And the saddened chimes I hear
    Race towards the wall to find
    one more name appears

    No one is left now
    my one and only land
    I laugh at what I've done
    I am the Killing Hand

• I. The Observance
• II. Ancient Renewal
• III. The Stray Seed
• IV. Thorns
• V. Exodus

• 5. Light Fuse and Get Away [7:23]

• • Tekst: Kevin Moore

    Would you like to sit and talk to me
    about the way things change so
    suddenly
    when your senses come and the feeling
    goes?
    can you remember feeling much
    too close?

    Stop your hands from shaking.
    Look at me.
    Are your senses racing endlessly
    tracing
    past impressions? So were mine.
    Have you ever been used
    or will this be the first time?

    It's come so clear to me
    Light fuse and get away
    No gain, no pain
    It's a fatal game
    and the true lose everything

    I can see
    what trust and loyalty have done
    for me
    falling miles from the mark
    with a thirst for revenge
    and a dangerous heart

    I've tried to wash from memory
    feelings of betrayal and the incidents
    that plague me since I lost my sense
    of innocence

    A history of changes now I'm loving
    now I'm losing keeps me constantly
    in fear of hearing "I can't see where
    this is going"

    You lie alone with the memory
    feeling the ceiling and walls closing
    in on
    Your Conscience - my ally
    the guilt - your affliction
    from preying on praise as you fed
    an attention addiction

    Someone told me
    Light fuse and get away
    No gain, no pain
    and when it's lust to dust you can
    crawl from the wreckage

    I can see
    what trust and loyalty have done
    for me
    lying bleeding in the dark
    with a thirst for revenge
    and a dangerous heart

    It's come so clear to me
    Light fuse and get away
    No gain, no pain
    It's a fatal game
    and the true lose everything

    I can see
    what trust and loyalty have done
    for me
    falling miles from the mark
    with a thirst for revenge
    and a dangerous heart

• 6. Afterlife [5:27]

• • Tekst: Charlie Dominci

    I touched with one,
    who made me run
    away from my own soul...
    In this world with its
    many illusions
    We are moving like mice through a maze

    And now I find
    what's left behind
    has served to make me whole
    full of doubt, deception, and delusion
    seeking purpose to all earthly days

    I search within
    beneath a skin
    that bears both pleasure and pain
    In a world full of constant confusion
    I will not be a par to the craze

    In the Afterlife
    will dark be bright?
    will cold be warm?
    will the day have no night?
    In the Afterlife?
    will the blind have sight?
    In the Afterlife

    Behind closed eyes
    some comfort lies
    In knowing the truth never spoken
    Through this world with us
    hidden conclusion
    we'll keep moving like mice through a maze

    In the Afterlife
    will dark be bright?
    will cold be warm?
    will the day have no night?
    In the Afterlife?
    will the blind have sight?
    In the Afterlife

    In the Afterlife
    will dark be bright?
    will cold be warm?
    will the day have no night?
    In the Afterlife?
    will the blind have sight?
    In the Afterlife

• 7. The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun [8:04]

• • Tekst: John Petrucci

    Watching my window I was led like achild
    As the roadway lamplights
    misguided my mind through the night
    a shadow of limits
    We were racing the rain
    my hands held the wheel
    My eyes tried to hold their place

    there must have been a time
    when I thought that you were watching
    It had to be when my senses lost control
    I thought I'd slipped away
    I thought I could still feel us moving
    It must have been a cloud
    no bigger than a man's hand

    Every reason I risk my life
    To come back to you
    Is locked behind your door
    You're my immunity
    Outside I watched you burn
    Heavy hearts were bleeding
    A cry for help, a familiar voice
    My melting hands streaked the glass

    As I walked away
    I wondered what had really happened
    had I run out of time
    did I push myself too far
    As my last step fell
    I felt my hands upon the wheel
    had I come back to life
    or did I ever leave at all
    In higher lives
    We seem to be
    always a moment too late
    We're past the time
    when we looked on
    Now we're
    THE ONES WHO HELP TO SET THE SUN
    this time for real
    I locked the door behind me
    My mind was still a wreck
    from what I saw
    For when my hands are still
    I'll recognize the message
    never again will my senses lose control
    In higher lives
    We seem to be
    Always a moment too late
    We're past the time
    when we looked on
    Now we're
    THE ONES WHO HELP TO SET THE SUN

• 8. Only A Matter Of Time [6:35]

• • Tekst: Kevin Moore

    A suited man smiled said:
    its just a matter of time
    You can have the world at your feet by tomorrow
    Just sign on this line.
    Hold tight...limelight!
    Approaching the paramount
    With the sun in our eyes
    Fearing family ties, legalies, compromise

    In a dimly lit room with a stool as his stage
    A dream-stricken prince of a paupers descent
    Haunts the eavesdropping silence
    That presses his window
    As he sweats a performance
    To an audience that ticks on the walls

    To the practical observer
    Its just a matter of time
    you can deviate from the commonplace
    Only to fall back in line.
    I understand mines a risky plan
    And your system cant miss
    But is security after all a cause or symptom of happiness?

    Brave, yet afraid, his eyes on horizon
    In a steady-set gaze
    A mariner soon from an open cocoon
    Takes a moment to summon his courage
    To stifle his grave apprehension and
    Trembling, approaches the surf
    A fathers benediction as his hopeful son departs
    To brave the sea of rage and conquer at all costs

    Lingers in his memory
    And visions still surviving in a logic-proof shell
    That should have been held sacred, safe and hidden well
    Are compromised in usury
    With every rising sun that yields no sight of land
    The hesitation cultivates within the tired man
    And rumors spread of mutiny
    And though the time will come when dream and day unite
    Tonight the only consolation causing him to fight
    In fearless faith in destiny

    Even when plan fall to pieces
    I can still find the courage
    With promise Ive found in my faith

    Likely or not, its a dream that we keep
    And at odds with our senses well climb
    But if faith is the answer, weve already reached it

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