Tytuł: A mind beside itself

• Wykonawca: Dream Theater
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   Love, just don't stare
  He used to say to me
  every Sunday morning
  The spider in the window
  The angel in the pool
  The old man takes the poison
  Now the widow makes the rules
  "So speak, I'm right here"
  She used to say to me
  not a word, not a word
  Judas on the ceiling
  the Devil in my bed
  I guess Easter's never coming
  So I'll just wait inside my head
  
  Like a scream but sort of silent
  living off my nightmares
  
  Voices repeating me
  "Feeling threatened?
  We reflect your hopes and fears."
  Voices discussing me
  "Others steal your thoughts
  they're not confined
  within your mind."
  
  Thought disorder
  Dream control
  Now they read my mind on the radio
  But where was the Garden of Eden?
  
  I feel elated
  I feel depressed
  Sex is death, Death is sex
  Says it right here on my Crucifix
  
  Like a scream but sort of silent
  living off my nightmares
  
  Voices protecting me
  "Good behavior
  brings the Savior
  to his knees."
  
  Voices rejecting me
  "Others steal your thoughts
  they're not confined
  to your own mind."
  
  I'm kneeling on the floor
  staring at the wall
  like the spider in the window
  I wish that I could speak
  Is there fantasy in refuge?
  God in politicians?
  Should I turn on my religion?
  These demons in my head tell me to
  
  I'm lying here in bed
  Swear my skin is inside out
  Just another Sunday morning
  
  Seen my diary on the newsstand
  Seems we've lost the truth to quicksand
  It's a shame no one is praying
  'Cause these voices in my head
  keep saying...
  
  "Love, just don't stare."
  "Reveal the Word when you're
  supposed to"
  Withdrawn and introverted
  Infectiously perverted
  "Being laughed at and confused
  keeps us pleasantly amused
  enough to stay."
  
  Maybe I'm just Cassandra fleeting
  Twentieth century Icon bleeding
  Willing to risk Salvation
  to escape from isolation
  
  I'm witness to redemption
  heard you speak but never listened
  Can you rid me of my secrets?
  Deliver us from Darkness?
  
  Voices repeating me
  "Feeling threatened?
  We reflect .your hopes and fears."
  
  Voices discussing me
  Don't expect your own Messiah
  This neverworld which you desire
  is only in your mind.
  
  
  III. THE SILENT MAN
  Lyrics: John Petrucci
  Music: John Petrucci
  A question well served,
  "Is silence like a fever?"
  "A voice never heard?"
  "Or a message with no receiver?"
  Pray they won't ask
  Behind the stained glass
  There's always one more mask
  
  Has man been a victim
  of his woman, of his father?
  if he elects not to bother,
  will he suffocate their faith?
  
  Desperate to fall
  Behind the Great Wall
  That separates us all
  
  When there is reason
  Tonight I'm Awake
  when there's no answer
  Arrive the Silent Man
  
  If there is balance
  tonight He's Awake
  If they have to suffer
  There lies the Silent Man
  
  Sin without deceivers
  A God with no believers
  I could sail by
  on the Winds of Silence
  And maybe they won't notice
  But this time I think
  It'd be better if I swim
  
  When there is reason
  Tonight I'm Awake
  When there's no answer
  Arrive the Silent Man
  If there's balance
  Tonight he's Awake
  If they have to suffer
  There lies the Silent Man