Images and Words Lyrics Album by Dream Theater
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Album Lyrics
1. Pull Me Under
Lost in the sky, clouds roll by
and I roll with them.
Arrows fly, seas increase
and then fall again.
This world is spinning around me,
this world is spinning without me.
And every day send future to past,
every breath leaves me one less to my last.
Watch the sparrow falling
gives new meaning to it all.
If not today nor yet tomorrow
then some other day.
I’ll take seven lives for one
and then my only father’s son,
as sure as I did ever love him.
I am not afraid!
This world is spinning around me,
the whole world keeps spinning around me.
And all life is future to past,
every breath leaves me one less to my last.
Pull me under, pull me under!
Pull me under, I’m not afraid.
All that I feel is honor and spite,
all I can do is to set it right.
Dust fills my eyes!
Clouds roll by
and I roll with them.
Centuries cry!
Orders fly
and I fall again.
This world is spinning inside me,
the whole world is spinning inside of me.
And every day send future to past,
every breath brings me one less to my last.
Pull me under, pull me under!
Pull me under, I’m not afraid.
Living my life too much in the sun,
only until your will is done.
Pull me under, pull me under.
Pull me under, I’m not afraid.
All that I feel is honor and spite,
all I can do is to set it right.
Pull me under, pull me under.
Pull me under, I’m not afraid.
Living my life too much in the sun,
only until your will is done.
2. Another Day
Live another day,
climb a little higher,
find another reason to stay.
Ashes in your hands,
mercy in your eyes,
if you’re searching
for a silent sky.
You won’t find it here,
look another way.
You won’t find it here,
so die another day.
The coldness of his words,
the message in his silence:
“Face the candle to the wind!”
This distance in my voice
isn’t leaving you a choice,
so if you’re looking
for a time to run away.
You won’t find it here,
look another way.
You won’t find it here,
so try another day.
They took pictures of our dreams,
ran to hide behind the stairs,
and said “Maybe when it’s right
for you, they’ll fall.”
But if they don’t come down
resist the need to pull them in,
and throw them away.
Better to save the mystery
than surrender to the secret.
You won’t find it here,
look another way.
You won’t find it here,
so try another day.
3. Take the Time
“Hold it now, wait a minute, c’mon!”
Just let me catch my breath!
I’ve heard the promises, I’ve seen the mistakes,
I’ve had my fair share of tough breaks.
I need a new voice, a new law, a new way,
and take the time, reevaluate.
It’s time to pick up the pieces
and go back to square one,
I think it’s time for a change.
There is something that
I feel to be something that is real.
I feel the heat within my mind
and craft new changes with my eyes.
Giving freely wandering promises,
a place with decisions I’ll fashion,
I won’t waste another breath.
You can feel the waves coming on,
it’s time to take the time.
Let them destroy you or carry you on,
it’s time to take the time.
You’re fighting the weight of the world
but no one can save you this time.
Close your eyes, you can find all
you need in your mind.
The unbroken spirit, obscured and disquiet,
finds clearness this trial demands.
At the end of this day sighs an anxious relief
for the fortune lies still in his hands.
If there’s pensive fear, a wasted year
a man must learn to cope.
If his obsession’s real, suppression that
he feels must turn to hope.
Life is no more assuring than love,
it’s time to take the time.
There are no answers from voices above,
it’s time to take the time.
You’re fighting the weight of the world
but no one can save you this time.
Close your eyes, you can find all
you need in your mind.
I close my eyes and feel the water rise around me,
drown the beat of time and let my senses fall away.
I can see much clearer now I’m blind!
“Ora che ho perso la vista ci vedo di piu!”
You can feel the waves coming on,
it’s time to take the time.
Let them destroy you or carry you on,
ut’s time to take the time.
You’re fighting the weight of the world
but no one can save you this time.
Close your eyes, you can find all
you need in your mind.
Find all you need in your mind
if you take the time.
Find all you need in your mind
if you take the time.
4. Surrounded
Morning comes too early
and night time falls too late.
Sometimes all I want to do is wait,
the shadow I’ve been hiding in
has fled from me today.
I know it’s easier
to walk away than
look it in the eye.
But I will raise
a shelter to the sky,
and here beneath this
star tonight I’ll lie.
She will slowly yield the light
as I awaken from the longest night.
Dreams are shaking,
set sirens waking up tired eyes.
With the light the memories
all rush into his head.
By a candle stands a mirror,
of his heart and soul she dances.
She was dancing through the
night above his bed.
Walking to the window,
he throws the shutters
out against the wall.
From an ivory tower hears her call:
“Let light surround you!”
It’s been a long, long time,
he’s had a while to think it over.
In the end he only sees the change:
Light to dark,
dark to light.
Light to dark,
dark to light.
Heaven must be more than this
when angels waken with a kiss.
Sacred hearts won’t take the pain
but mine will never be the same.
He stands before the window,
his shadow slowly fading from the wall.
From an ivory tower hears her call:
“Let the light surround you”.
Once lost but I was found,
when I heard the stained glass
shatter all around me.
I sent the spirits
tumbling down the hill,
but I will hold this one
on high above me still.
She whispers words
to clear my mind,
I once could see but now
at last I’m blind.
I know it’s easier
to walk away than
look it in the eye.
But I had given all
that I could take,
and now I’ve only
habits left to break.
Tonight I’ll still be lying here
surrounded in all the light.
5. Metropolis (Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper)
The smile of dawn arrived early May,
she carried a gift from her home.
The night shed a tear to tell her of fear
and of sorrow and pain, she’ll never outgrow.
Death is the first dance eternal!
There’s no more freedom.
The both of you will be
confined to this mind.
I was told there’s miracle
for each day that I try.
I was told there’s a new
love that’s born for each
one that has died.
I was told there would be
no one to call on when
I feel alone and afraid.
I was told if you
dream of the next world
you’ll find yourself
swimming in a lake of fire.
As a child I thought
I could live without pain,
without sorrow.
As a man I’ve found
it’s all caught up with me.
I’m asleep yet I’m so afraid!
Somewhere like a scene from a memory
there’s a picture worth a thousand words.
Eluding stares from faces before me,
it hides away and will never be heard of again.
Deceit is the second without end!
The city’s cold blood
teaches us to survive.
Just keep my heart in your eyes
and we’ll stay alive.
The third arrives!
Before the leaves have fallen,
before we lock the doors.
There must be the
third and last dance,
this one will last forever.
Metropolis watches
and thoughtfully smiles,
she’s taken you to your home.
It can only take place
when the struggle between
our children has ended.
Now the Miracle and the Sleeper
know that the third is love.
Love is the dance of eternity!
6. Under a Glass Moon
Tell me, remind me,
chase the water
racing from the sky.
Always beside me,
taste the memories
running from my eyes.
Nervous flashlights
scan my dreams,
liquid shadows silence
their screams.
I smile at the moon,
chasing water from the sky.
I argue with the clouds
stealing beauty from my eyes.
Outside the soundness of your mind
bathing your soul in silver tears.
Beneath a blackened summer sky
praying for time to disappear.
Beneath a summer sky,
under the glass moonlight,
night awaits the lamb’s arrival.
Liquid shadows crawl,
silver teardrops fall.
The bride subsides
to her survival.
By your hand I’ve awakened,
bear this honor in my name.
Outside the soundness of your mind
bathing your soul in silver tears.
Beneath a blackened summer sky
praying for time to disappear.
7. Wait for Sleep
Standing by the window,
eyes upon the moon.
Hoping that the memory
will leave her spirit soon.
She shuts the doors and lights
and lays her body on the bed.
Where images and words
are running deep.
She has too much pride
to pull the sheets
above her head.
So quietly she lays
and waits for sleep.
She stares at the ceiling
and tries not to think,
and pictures the chains
she’s been trying to link again.
But the feeling is gone!
Water can’t cover her memory,
and ashes can’t answer her pain.
God give me the power to take
breath from a breeze and call life
from a cold metal frame.
In with the ashes
or up with the smoke
from the fire.
With wings up in heaven
or here, lying in bed,
palm of her hand to my head.
Now and forever curled
in my heart and the heart
of the world.
8. Learning to Live
There was no time for pain,
no energy for anger.
The sightlessness of
hatred slips away.
Walking through
winter streets alone.
He stops and take a breath
with confidence and self control.
I look at the world
and see no understanding.
I’m waiting to find
some sense of strength.
I’m begging you
from the bottom of my heart
to show me understanding.
I need to live life
like some people never will.
So find me kindness,
find me beauty, find me truth.
When temptation
brings me to my knees,
and I lay here drained of strength.
Show me kindness,
show me beauty,
show me truth.
The way your heart sounds
makes all the difference.
It’s what decides if you’ll endure
the pain that we all feel.
The way your heart beats
makes all the difference
in learning to live.
Here before me is my soul,
I’m learning to live.
I won’t give up until
I’ve no more to give.
No more to give!
Listening to the city,
whispering its violence.
I set out watching from above.
The 90’s bring new questions,
new solutions to be found.
I fell in love to be let down.
Once again we dance in the crowd,
at times a step away from
a common fear that’s all spread out,
it won’t listen to what you say.
Once you’re touched,
you stand alone to face
the bitter fight.
Once I reached
for love and now
I reach for life.
Another chance to lift my life,
free the sensation in my heart,
to ride the wings of dreams
into changing horizons.
It brings inner peace
within my mind,
as I’m lifted from where
I’ve spilt my life.
I hear an innocent voice,
I hear kindness, beauty and truth.
The way your heart sounds
makes all the difference.
It’s what decides if you’ll endure
the pain that we all feel.
The way your heart beats
makes all the difference
in learning to live.
Spread before you is your soul,
so forever hold the dreams within our hearts.
Through nature’s inflexible grace,
I’m learning to live.
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