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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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From: c_caddy@oz.plymouth.edu (Clayton S. Caddy)
AWAKE: Dream Theatre
6:00
Six o'clock and a siren kicks him from a dream
Tries to shake it off but it just won't stop
Can't find the strength but he's got promises to keep
And wood to chop before he sleeps
I may never get over
but never's better than now
I've got bases to cover
He's in the parking lot
just sitting in his car
I'ts nine o'clock but he can't get out
He lights a cigarette
and turns the music down
but he just can't seem to shake that sound
Once I thought I'd get over
but it's too late for me now
I've got bases to cover
Melody walks through the door
and memory flies out the window
and nobody knows what they want
'til they finally let it all go
The pain outside
coming inside
So many ways to drown a man
So many ways to drag him down
Some are fast and some take years and years
Can't hear what he's saying when he's talking in his sleep
Finally found the sound but he's in to deep
I could never get over
Is it to late for me now?
Feel like I'm blowing my cover
Melody walks through the door
and memory flies out the window
and nobody knows what they want
'til they finally let it all go
But don't cut your losses too soon
'cause you'll only be cutting your own throat
And answer a call while you still hear at all
'cause nobody will if you won't
CAUGHT IN A WEB
Silence disguised
I watch you
Show me the hurt
that haunts you
Would you despise the thrill
If all you hide were mine?
I can't hold on any longer
These feelings keep growing stronger
Echoes that deafen the mind
Will bury my voice in their wake
Caught in a Web
Removed from the world
Hanging on by a thread
Sinning the lies
devised in my head
I've seen the path
the one you take
shows the truth
for you to make
This turn of phase
we might not see
is this the thirst of desire
found so easily
Try to push me 'round
the world some more
And make me live in fear
I bare all that I am
made of now
Attractive I don't care
'Cause even when I've danced with life
no one was there to share
Does this voice the wounds of your soul?
Caught in a Web
Removed from the world
Hanging on by a thread
Sinning the lies
devised in my head
Tried to save the life
you live and saw
It doesn't work for me
I bare all that I am
made of now
Attractive, I can't be
Inside the Dance of Life is one
I'll never hold to me
You can't heal the wounds of my soul
Caught in a Web
Removed from the world
Hanging on by a thread
Spinning a cage
Denied and misread
INNOCENCE FADED
Animation
breaths a cloudless mind
Facination
leaves the doubting mind
Until the circle breaks
and wisdom lies ahead
The faithful live Awake
The rest remain mislead
Some will transend spinning years
One as if time disappears
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you
Callow and vain
fixed like a fossil, shrouding pain
Passionless stages
Distant like brothers
Wearing apothetic displays
Sharing flesh like envy in cages
Condescending
Not intending to end
Some will transcend spinning years
One as if time disappears
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind yot
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you
Beginnings get complicated
the farther we progress
Opinions are calculated
Immune to openness
Beyond the circle's edge
We're driven by her blessings
Forever hesitating
Caught beneth the wheel
Innocence faded
The mirror falls behind you
Cynically jaded
The child will crawl to find you
A MIND BESIDE ITSELF
I. EROTOMANIA
II. VOICES
"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 widdow 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."
Other 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 is 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 mind."
I'm kneeling on the floor
staring at the wall
like a spider in the window
I wish that I could speak
Is there fantasy in refuge?
God in politicians?
Should I turn to 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 sayin...
"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 whitness 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
A question well served
"Is silence like a fever?"
"A voice never heard?"
"Or a message with no reciever?"
Pray they won't ask
Behind the stained glass
There's always one more mask
Has man become 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's be better if I swim
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
THE MIRROR
Temptation-
Why won't you leave me alone?
Lurking Every Corner, everywhere I go
Self Control-
Don't turn your back on me now
When I need you the most
Constant Pressure tests my will
My will or my wont
My Self control escapes from me still...
Hypocrite-
How could you be so cruel
and expect my faith in return?
Resistance-
Is not as hard as it seems
When you close the door
I spent so long trusting you
I trust you forgot
Just when I thought I believed in you...
It's time for me to deal
Becoming all to real
living in fear-
Why did you lie and pretend?
This has come to an end
I'll never trust you again
It's time to make your amends
Look in the mirror my friend
Let's stare the problem right in the eye
It's plagued me from coast to coast
Racing the clock to please everyone
All but the one who matters the most
Reflections of reality
are slowly coming into view
How in the hell could you possibly forgive me?
After the hell I put you through
It's time for me to deal
Becoming all to real
living in fear-
Why'd I betray my friend?
Lying until the end
Living life so pretend
It's time to make my amends
I'll never hurt you again
LIE
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