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just picked up Train Of Thought today.. and I can easily say It's now the BEST metal album in my whole ***** collection!

I can't believe I missed this AMAZING album for so long!

here are the albums lyrics!


Train of Thought (2003)

1. As I Am
2. This Dying Soul
3. Endless Sacrifice
4. Honor Thy Father
5. Vacant
6. Stream Of Consciousness
7. In The Name Of God


1. As I Am

[Lyrics by John Petrucci]

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. This Dying Soul

[Lyrics by Mike Portnoy]

[IV. Reflections of Reality (Revisited)]

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 ****** 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

Dedicated to Bill W. and all of his friends


3. Endless Sacrifice

[Lyrics by John Petrucci]

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. Honor Thy Father

[Lyrics by Mike Portnoy]

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 ****** on me

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


5. Vacant

[Lyrics by James LaBrie]

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. Stream Of Consciousness

[Instrumental]


7. In The Name Of God

[Lyrics by John Petrucci]

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?

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The rest of DT's lyrics can be found here!

http://darklyrics.com/d/dreamtheater.html

wow, glad to see that there is another dire DT fan here. Though I must say you could have just linked to the lyrics, they are kinda long, and kinda copyrighted ^^

in any event, I love the scenes from a memory (the live version more, but then again, I prefer live albums)

Finally! a few other DT fans outside of LJ!

as of right now I have

SFAM
Images And Words
Train Of Thought
Awake
Octavarium
Five Years In A LIVEtime DVD
I&W Live In Tokyo DVD


I totally agree about SFAM.. the studio album is cool but LSFNY is amazing!

and for the record.. I'd say my favorite DT song is probably As I Am because the whole song is just Full-Tilt heavy metal all the way through!

but It's great to see some others outside of the people I know from LJ that ARE huge fans!

-Adriondack

YES! Dream Theater rules! they have the most technical music of any "instrumental" type band around. John Petrucci is an amazing guitar player. Have you ever heard the "change of seasons" album? Wow, someone else whos a fan!

yeah definitely agreed there! and sadly I still have to accquire ACoS yet! but I need to so I'll have all of DT's albums!

and I totally agree with what you said about Petrucci being amazing.. he is a wizard when it comes to guitarists in my book and shall remain that way for many years to come!

oh and check this mess out! WTF!
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It doesn't take much knowledge of DT to know there is a strong connection between them and Queensryche. I, having a quite a bit of DT knowledge, know that the bands have been explicitly linked since day one. Queensryche was a major influence on Dream Theater, and the band has always been fans of their music. They patterned themselves after a few bands, and Queensryche was one of the major ones. When they just started out, Majesty (DT's original name) went to a QR show and met the band, and Geoff Tate signed Mike Portnoy's Queensryche poster, wishing him the best of luck in the music business. Dream Theater's original singer, Chris Collins was chosen becuse he sounded a lot like Tate. The band performed "Queen Of The Reich" at their very first show, and several subsequent ones. When they recorded their first album with a slightly different lineup (Collins had been replaced by Charlie Dominici) they shared the same studio as Queensryche, and the QR influence was huge on the first album. The band has toured together, having unprecedented full band jams on both band's material (spirit carries on, peruvian skies, take hold of the flame, the real world) as well as cover songs (won't get fooled again, comfortably numb) Dream Theater is featured on the QR DVD "The Art Of Live" and are thanked in the CD version despite not apearring on it. Queensryche is featured on the new Official Bootleg A Saucerful of Floyd.

However, despite the inherant connections between the band and the friendships they share with each other, it was known for quite a while and has become extremely apparent in the last few days that a fued has existed and most likely will continue to exist between the respective band's erstwhile leaders, Geoff Tate and Mike Portnoy. Tate, although he is one of my favorite performers and although he houses a talent that I have deep respect for, Has been the cause of it from day one. His backstabbing led to a cancelled tour that would have been amazing for the fans. He had said to the press in the past that DT was a completely unknown band to most poeple, including him, which is an outright lie. Although the band did tour together, his ill-advised comments taking credit where it was NOT due was uncalled for (He claimed to spearhead the idea of covering "Won't Get Fooled Again" as an protest of the Iraqi War. It was very shortly later revealed that it was Mike Portnoy who chose the song, and not for political reasons (Mike is for the war) but becuase it's a good song. Tate apparently wants to be known as The Bono Of Prog.

Due to tate's recent attacks on DT and MP personally, both to the press and to people who are freinds with Mike, as we've all seen, Mike is done being quiet. A fued between fans has already begun, with mudsliniging against Queensryche and their new album by Dream Theater fans and against Dream Theater/Octavarium by QR fans.

The problem that Geoff seems to miss is that most of us are fans of both bands. It is inconceivable why, especially considering the sold out RCMH show and the huge following DT has gained over their 20 years, Tate would want to alienate Dream Theater fans. A *LOT* of Queensryche fans are also fans of Dream Theater and have not taken lightly to Tate's comments. Although some who only like QR have tried to twist what Mike has said to make it seem like the whole issue is "MP bashing Queensryche" anybody who looks up the relevant information can see the facts. I personally have thought not very much at all about Tate for quite some time as a person, but still respect him as a musician. I still wish to see Queensryche in concret this year, as they'll be playing not only my favorite album (Operation: Mindcrime) but my second (It's sequel) However I find it necessary for Dream Theater fans to send a message to Geoff Tate

so this is what I propose Dream Theater fans do to make Goeff Tate realize that he shouldn't be an ******* and alienate fans that are partly his own.

1- Don't buy Operation: Mindcrime II. Download it. I normaly do NOT condone this, as I feel it's stealing. But Tate needs to be shown that unprofessional comments about another musician is not condoned and will not be condoned.

2- If you go to a Queensryche show, wear a Dream Theater shirt. If Tate looks towards you, point at your shirt.

3- Make a banner that says "Queensryche Rocks, but Geoff Tate is an *******" or something similar. Use it on forums/livejournal/whatever

4- Write a POLITE letter or email to Queensryche or their management. Do not flame them or use foul language, please do not make Dream Theater fans look bad. Ask Tate why he feels the need to alienate DT fans.

5- Put up shared files/torrents that claim to be Operation: Mindcrime II use Dream Theater songs named as the QR tracks.

thats a bunch of crap, how Geoff Tate can be such a, well, you know. But DT will come out on top, but no matter what happens, DT will always rule! You should see the video i posted about Michael Angeol Batio if you want to see the best guitarest ever. Keep rockin

my thoughts exactly! and it's like I said there..

it is pretty ***** apparent that Tate's trying to be the so called "Bono Of Progressive"

I mean like what the hell is the world coming to these days!

-Adriondack

im not that big of a fan of queensyrche anyways, down with them! Tate will never be the Bono of Prog!

totally agreed! acting like that will never get you nothing but a one-way trip to feud hell and a bunch of pissed off fans who have completely lost their respect for the one who started the whole dam thing in the first place.. catchng my drift?

PEACE!
-Adriondack

true that!! Have u got the Change of Seasons yet? I love the first 24 minute song!

I have a live version in it's entirity and I will say that's it is simply mindblowng!

I'm in MAJOR love with part 7 of ACoS.. The Crimson Sunset.. It is just absolutely insane!

also want to apoligize to the adminstrators and mods for my language! I will try to not make that too much of a habit! once again... my apoligies to the admins & mods

hmm..ive never heard the live version before. but it sounds like its pretty sweet!

i just downloaded a sweet drum solo from Mike Portnoy!

I just got my copy of DT's newest DVD.. SCORE: 20th anniversary world tour Live w/ Octavarium Orcestra.. and can & will say it's AMAZING..

here's the set!...

1st SET: Dream Theater
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The Root Of All Evil
I Walk Beside You
Another Won
Afterlife
Under A Glass Moon
Innocennce Faded
Raise The Knife
The Spirit Carries On
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2nd SET: Dream Theater w/ Orcestra
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Six Degrees Of Inner Turblence
Vacant
The Answer Lies Within
Sacrificed Sons
Octavarium
Metropolis pt:1

and there's also a 2nd disk full of bonus stuff.. including the 20th annversary tour documentary.. THE SCORE SO FAR

All I can say DT fans is hold on to your hats and CRANK IT UP LOUD!

Be AMAZED by the musical magic that is Dream Theater

Train of thought is the only album i have heard right the way through, "In the name of god" was an awesome song