A Dramatic Turn of Events Lyrics Album by Dream Theater
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Album Lyrics
1. On the Backs of Angels
Standing on the backs
of angels destined to create,
mounting the attack while
heroes carry your weight.
We spiral toward disaster,
survival fading faster.
Riding out the wave,
content to feed on the machine.
Leading us to death,
the new American dream.
You’re blinded by your hunger.
Beware, your days are numbered!
Tears fall from the shameless!
Shelter me, guide me to the
edge of the water.
Selfless are the righteous!
Burden me, lead me like a
lamb to the slaughter.
Blurring lines drawn in between
what is right and what is wrong,
victims on the radar stringing us along.
We’re on to your agenda,
the dead end road to nowhere.
Tears fall from the shameless!
Shelter me, guide me to the
edge of the water.
Selfless are the righteous!
Burden me, lead me like a
lamb to the slaughter.
2. Build Me Up, Break Me Down
Today I will be a savior,
tomorrow a demon.
You crave my erratic behavior,
and watch my every move.
Obsession at all costs,
you’ll be the death of me.
Broken and torn apart,
why can’t you let me be?
You build me up, you break me down
until I’m falling to pieces.
I crash and burn, I never learn,
I’m your guilty addiction.
Build me up,
break me down!
Today, a savior…
Tonight I am the new
messiah you deify.
When I’m no longer desired
I’ll be crucified.
The one who’s free from sin
the first to cast the stone.
Fighting the fear within,
I won’t be left alone.
You build me up, you break me down
until I’m falling to pieces.
The price I pay to live this way,
and the fantasy stays alive.
I can’t live up, I can’t let down
and leave you falling to pieces.
I crash and burn, I never learn,
I’m your morbid obsession!
Build me up! Break me down!
I will be your savior…
You build me up, you break me down
until I’m falling to pieces.
The price I pay to live this way,
and the fantasy stays alive.
I can’t live up, I can’t let down,
and leave you falling to pieces.
I crash and burn, I never learn
your iconic fixation.
Build me up,
break me down!
3. Lost Not Forgotten
I am not immortal, I am just a man,
a power-craving tyrant beyond the shadows in the sand.
Men have come to fear me, many bow and cry,
known across the desert, I am the one who will not die.
I have faced the demons of our most desperate moments,
I have been the one to defend our pride.
I have worn the banner of my abandoned brothers,
I will be the first one to give my life.
Lost not forgotten, reigning against the odds,
feared and respected living among the Gods.
Leading the empire, a spirit as black as coal,
lost not forgotten king of the deathless soul.
An epic novel no one has read,
pages torn and faded, the greatest story never told.
Behold the kingdom I possess, land of wealth
and beauty where the streets are paved with gold.
Once fearless and brave
a realm passed away,
ghosts of yesterday!
Lost not forgotten, reigning against the odds,
feared and respected living among the Gods.
Leading the empire, a spirit as black as coal,
lost not forgotten king of the deathless soul.
Lost not forgotten, reigning against the odds,
feared and respected living among the Gods.
Leading the empire brutal and heartless,
vanishing further into the darkness.
Lost not forgotten king of the deathless soul!
4. This Is the Life
In the heart of your most solemn barren night
when your soul’s turned inside out,
have you questioned all the madness you invite,
what your life is all about?
Some of us choose to live gracefully,
some can get caught in the maze
and lose their way home.
This is the life we belong to,
our gift divine.
Have you ever wished
that you were someone else,
traded places in your mind?
It’s only a waste of your time.
Some of us choose to live gracefully,
some can get caught in the maze
and lose their way home.
This is the life we belong to,
our gift divine.
Feed the illusion you dream about,
cast out the monsters inside.
Life begins with an empty slate,
fragile and left in the hands of fate.
Driven by love and crushed by hate until
the day the gift is gone and shadows remain.
Some of us choose to live gracefully,
some can get caught in the maze
and lose their way home.
Memories will fade, time races on,
what will they say after you’re gone?
This is the life we belong to,
our gift divine.
5. Bridges in the Sky
Blackness awakens,
visions come alive.
Seeing through darkness
with borrowed eyes.
Death survivor
take me higher,
reunite my soul.
Whisperer of truth,
I trust in you to
make me whole.
Sun, come shine my way.
Make healing waters
bury all my pain.
Wind, carry me home.
The fabric of reality
is tearing apart.
The piece of me that died
will return to live again.
Feeling myself slip away,
silently dreaming awake,
hidden memories flooding back.
I will not grow in
the light until I pass
through the darkest
caverns of my heart.
Dance with fire,
spirit guide erase
the world outside.
Messenger of truth,
I trust in you,
transform me now.
Sun, come shine my way.
Make healing waters
bury all my pain.
Wind, carry me home.
The fabric of reality
is tearing apart.
The piece of me that died
will return to live again.
And at last the time has come
to unite again as one,
to the power of the
earth I’m calling.
Crossing bridges in the sky
on a journey to renew my life.
Shaman, take my hand!
Sun, come shine my way.
Make healing waters
bury all my pain.
Wind, carry me home.
The fabric of reality
is tearing apart.
The piece of me that died
will return to live again.
And at last the time has come
to unite again as one,
to the power of the
earth I’m calling.
Crossing bridges in the sky
on a journey to renew my life.
Shaman, take my hand!
6. Outcry
Somewhere overhead a distant thunder roars,
the revolution has begun, the war to end all wars.
As I welcome Death I hear the battle cry,
bullets fall like fire raining from the sky.
The rebel in us all someday
gets tired of being pushed around.
But freedom has a price,
the cost is buried in the ground.
We suffered far too long,
we gather now, growing stronger.
We will not be ignored
anymore any longer.
Our anthem will guide us!
Rise up, be counted,
stand strong and unite.
Wait for the outcry,
Resistance is calling tonight.
Far too many years of chaos and unrest,
far too many voices brutally suppressed.
We fight for what is just, for all that we believe,
we fight till death or glory, fight to be set free.
The streets are bathed in blood,
time to step down and time to walk away.
You’ll never rule me now though
you may stand upon my grave.
You can look the other way,
or you can face the light.
Although it seems so far away
freedom’s worth the fight.
Rise up, be counted,
stand strong and unite.
Wait for the outcry,
Resistance is calling!
Rise up, be counted,
stand strong and unite.
Wait for the outcry,
Resistance is calling tonight.
The world watches on
while we risk our lives,
locked in a kingdom of fear
as our children die.
7. Far from Heaven
No one truly has the answers,
every day I struggle through it once more.
Keep things bottled up, never speaking my mind,
misinterpreted, I’m doing just fine.
Every day I put a brave face on,
serves me well, feeling helpless, facing it alone.
Hard to tell that I can change who I am,
how I feel, there’s no end.
I have done what you asked of me,
leaves me nothing to live for.
Coming undone,
Way too high a price I should pay.
You keep your pride while
I die inside every day.
No, I can’t lie anymore,
won’t pretend I’ve done all I can.
You can’t imagine
the Hell I’m going through,
not asking you to save me.
I’m too far from Heaven!
Nothing you can do to change me
but accept me as I am.
8. Breaking All Illusions
With the sun in place
there’s a test of faith,
streams of thought awaken.
New realities, singularities,
breaking all illusions.
“Your living is determined not
so much by what life brings to you
as by the attitude you bring to life,
not so much by what happens to you as by
the way your mind looks at what happens.
Out of suffering have
emerged the strongest souls,
the most massive characters
are seared with scars.”
-Kahlil Gibran
Sudden burst of heat,
burning source of life,
masterful destruction.
Power’s not an act,
it’s understanding truth.
Changing my direction!
Live in the moment, breathe in a new beginning,
wisdom revealed as I unlearn to learn.
Life’s biggest battles often are fought alone,
my spirit brings me home.
Emerald thoughts
flow through my consciousness,
drawn to curses left behind.
Test of will,
the threshold to one’s faith
starts a fire in the mind.
Searching out, reaching in
to arrive where I began.
Sights remembered in the light!
Searching out, reaching in
to arrive where I began.
Sounds remembered come alive!
Embrace the days, don’t turn away,
life’s true intent needs patience.
Karma starts the signal!
9. Beneath the Surface
Is there ever really a right time?
You had led me to believe
someday you’d be there for me.
When the stars above align,
when you weren’t so consumed
I kept looking for the clues.
So I waited in the
shadows of my heart,
and still the time
was never right.
Until one day I stopped caring
and began to forget why I longed
to be so close, and I disappeared
into the darkness.
And the darkness turned to pain
and never went away until all
that remained was buried
deep beneath the surface.
A shell of what things could have been,
tired bones beneath the veil of
guarded secrets all too frail.
Sad to think I never knew,
you were searching for the words,
for the moment to emerge.
Yet the moment never came,
you couldn’t risk
my fragile frame.
Until one day you stopped caring
and began to forget why you tried
to be so close, and you disappeared
into the darkness.
And the darkness turned to pain
and never went away until all
that remained was buried
deep beneath the surface.
I would scream just to be heard
as if yelling at the stars,
I was bleeding just to feel.
You would never say a word,
kept me reaching in the dark,
always something to conceal.
Until one day I stopped caring
and began to forget why I longed
to be so close, and I disappeared
into the darkness.
And the darkness turned to pain
and never went away until all
that remained was buried
deep beneath the surface.
Beneath the surface…
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