Systematic Chaos Lyrics Album by Dream Theater
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1. In the Presence of Enemies (Part I)
Part 1: Prelude
(Instrumental)
Part 2: Resurrection
I saw a white light shining there before me
and walking to it I waited for the end.
A final vision promising salvation,
a resurrection for a fallen man.
Do you still wait for your God,
and the symbol of your faith?
I can free you from this Hell and misery,
you should never be ashamed my son.
I can give you power beyond anything,
trust me you will be the chosen one.
I was forgotten, a body scorned and broken,
my soul rejected tainted by his blood.
Beyond redemption, a sinner not worth saving,
forever taken from the one I loved.
Do I still wait for my God
and a symbol of my faith?
I can lead you down
the path and back to life,
all I ask is that you worship me.
I can help you seek
revenge and save yourself,
give you life for all eternity.
Servants of the fallen fight to pave the way,
for their savior’s calling on this wicked day.
Through a veil of madness with a vicious blade
one man rises up, standing in their way.
Redemption for humanity!
2. Forsaken
For a while I thought I fell asleep,
lying motionless inside a dream.
Then rising suddenly I felt a
chilling breath upon me.
She softly whispered in my ear!
Forsaken, I have come
for you tonight.
Awaken, look in my eyes
and take my hand.
Give yourself up to me!
I waited painfully for
night to fall again,
trying to silence the
fear within me.
Out of the night and mist
I felt a stinging kiss
and saw a crimson stain
on her lips.
I have to know your name,
where have I seen your face before?
My dear one, don’t you be afraid.
Forsaken, I have come
for you tonight.
Awaken, look in my eyes
and take my hand.
Give yourself up to me…
Take me far away!
Close your eyes and
hold your breath to
the ends of the earth!
Forsaken, I have come
for you tonight.
Awaken, look in my eyes
and take my hand.
Give yourself up to me!
Forsaken, fly away
with me tonight.
Awaken, renew my life,
now you are mine.
Give yourself up to me!
3. Constant Motion
Tunnel vision at
blinding speed controlling
my thoughts, obsessing me.
Void of any uncertainty
throughout my very soul.
Lost illusions of my control
resisting all hope of letting go,
racing impulse of dark desire
drives me through the night.
I try to shut it down,
it leaves me in the dust.
No matter what I’ve found,
I can never get enough.
Frantic actions of insanity,
impulsive laced profanity.
Long for elusive serenity
way out of my control.
Traveling through
both space and time,
out of body, out of mind.
Out of control my wheels
in constant motion.
Spinning round and round it goes,
I can’t let up, I can’t let go.
Can’t stop this flame from burning
forever more into the night blistering.
Focus here, focus there,
cannot see the light.
Falling down through the night
sprawling everywhere.
Searching left,
searching right!
Panic setting in,
I can no longer fight.
When will this end?
Accelerate, dislocate,
set to crash and burn.
Haven’t got time to waste,
not planning to return.
Aggravate, agitate,
when will I ever learn?
There’s no way out of here,
nowhere to turn.
Obsessive yearning,
compulsive burning.
Still never learning.
Insane random thoughts
of neat disorder.
Scattered wasteland
surrounding me, tattered memories
of what used to be apocalyptic
mind debris until we meet again.
Traveling through
both space and time,
out of body, out of mind.
Out of control my wheels
in constant motion.
Spinning round and round it goes,
I can’t let up, I can’t let go.
Can’t stop this flame from burning
forever more into the night blistering.
Traveling through
both space and time,
out of body, out of mind.
Out of control my wheels
in constant motion.
Spinning round and round it goes,
I can’t let up, I can’t let go.
Can’t stop this flame from burning,
can’t stop the wheels from turning.
Traveling through
both space and time,
you get yours and I got mine.
Out of control my wheels
in constant motion.
Spinning round and round it goes,
I can’t let up, I can’t let go.
Can’t stop this flame from burning
forever more into the night blistering.
4. The Dark Eternal Night
No one dared to speak
of the terrible danger,
the hideous ancient warnings
forged in the void of night.
He has risen up
out of the blackness, chaos.
The last of the prophets sinister,
a sickening monstrous sight.
Through the stifling heat,
underneath the pale green moon
I burned with a thirst to
seek things not yet seen.
Climbing endless stairs
leading to the choking room,
eager to explore his most
shocking mysteries.
Drifting beyond all time,
out of a churning sky.
Drawn to the beckoning light
of the dark eternal night.
Black forces rage in the vortex,
fighting waves of destruction.
Swallowing the echo of the universe.
I am the last born of
the blood of the pharaohs,
the ultimate God of a rotting
creation sent to unleash this curse.
Restless crowds draw near,
nameless hooded forms appear.
Amidst fallen ruins grotesque
creatures battle.
Shadowed on a screen
yellow evil faces leer.
Vacant monuments, corpses
of dead worlds left behind
Drifting beyond all time,
out of a churning sky.
Drawn to the beckoning light
of the dark eternal night.
Trapped in a hellish dream,
spinning past worlds unseen
and frightfully vanishing into
the dark eternal night.
5. Repentance
Alcoholics Anonymous/Twelve-step Suite
Part 8: Regret
Hello Mirror, so glad
to see you my friend.
It’s been a while…
Staring at the empty page before me,
all the years of wreckage running through my head.
Patterns of my life I thought adorned me
revealing hurtful shame and deep lament.
Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me
as the pen begins to trace my darkest past,
signs throughout my life that should have warned me
of all the wrongs I’ve done for which I must repent.
I once thought it better to regret
things that I have done than haven’t.
Sometimes you’ve got to be
wrong and learn the hard way,
and sometimes you’ve got to be
strong when you think it’s too late.
Staring at the finished page before me,
all the damage now so clear and evident.
Thinking about the dreaded task in store for me,
a bitter fear at the thought of my amends.
Hoping that the step will help restore me
to face my past and ask for forgiveness.
Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street,
could this be the beginning of the end?
I once thought it better to regret
things that I have done than haven’t.
Sometimes you’ve got to be
wrong and learn the hard way,
and just when you’re through
hanging on, you’re saved.
Part 9: Restitution
“Until that moment I’d never
felt like I’d failed at anything.
I felt like I failed her and I failed
myself and I failed my children.
It’s still really hard to deal with.”
“I want to thank you for helping
me to see my own selfishness and
to tell you how regretful I am
it has hurt you.”
“I’m sorry I didn’t visit you in the hospital,
Grandpa, when you were on your deathbed.
I’m sorry I didn’t come to your funeral.
I don’t know if I was selfish or I just
was too scared to face it.
it’s one of the biggest regrets of my life.”
“I’m here to confess with you
that what I did was wrong, and I’m
asking for your forgiveness…”
“The only unforgivable thing
hauls itself out of bed, looks over
my shoulder at the bloody English weather.”
“I really regret not being able to see my friend Andy.”
“One of my best friends, who’s the godfather of my daughter,
he asked me to sing or play something at his wedding,
and I turned it down because I was busy and I guess
too much of a chickenshit to do it. And I feel sorry for that,
because it was a very, very close friend of mine.”
“So, I wanted to apologize to anyone
that I’ve upset or offended by my words.
It’s just an opinion but unfortunately
I tend to express it as a fact and that’s
kind of arrogant. Isn’t it?”
“I think it’s the betrayal,
tt still haunts me.”
“I’m sorry for what I did
back then,I was a different person.
I really was and I’m so sorry, I wish it
wouldn’t have happened but it did,
and I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?”
“I guess I’m simply sorry
for being me and not you,
I so often wish you could be here
with me to show me the way.”
“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development
we will be amazed before we are halfway through.
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness,
we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace,
no matter how far down the scale we have gone,
we will see how our experience can benefit others,
that feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things
and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away, our whole attitude
and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us,
we will intuitively know how to handle situations which
used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is
doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises, we think not.
They have been fulfilled amongst others,
sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
We will always be true to our principles.”
“You’re only as sick as your secrets
but the truth shall set you free.”
“The truth is the truth and so
all you can do is live with it.”
6. Prophets of War
It burns deep down inside of me,
we have ourselves to blame.
Not questioning, accept it
as the truth.
Debate this fight it’s just cause,
the facts do not support theirs
to liberate a people and rid
them of tyrant rule.
Is it time to make a change,
are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away,
are we profiting from war?
It’s time to make the change!
Intrigued got your attention,
deceived since the inception.
Our brave fight for what reason?
Compelled can we clean up this mess,
the loss of loved ones a perverse request.
They continue the same rhetoric these
derelicts that profit win or lose.
Is it time to make a change,
are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away,
are we profiting from war?
It’s time to make the change!
Time for change!
Fight the fear!
Find the truth!
Time for change!
The only thing that
I believe will help us see
this through is faith.
Pray they will forgive,
forgive our arrogance.
So we can make it right,
right what they have wronged.
See you sweat
unexpected controversial.
Get used to it, things are
gonna get personal.
Your sympathy a pitiful
display you stutter,
your empathy means nothing
if there is no honor.
Responsible of
this you are incapable.
We implicate, incriminate,
exacerbate, too much at stake.
Our fathers, mothers, sisters,
brothers, sons and daughters forced
perpetuating their ideals, a mindless
act to stay the course.
Is it time to make a change,
are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away,
are we profiting from war?
Is it time to make a change,
are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away,
are we profiting from war?
Is it time to make a change,
a change from what it’s been?
Can we help them break away,
is our patience wearing thin?
It’s time to make a change!
Time for change!
Fight the fear!
Find the truth!
Time for change!
7. The Ministry of Lost Souls
The water’s edge is where she waits,
lost soul still wandering.
Meant to die but she’s stuck,
not crossing over.
The other side is where he waits,
his spirit reaching out.
Meant to save but she’s too
scared to take his hand.
Living in a world without you,
drowning in the past,
is living in no world at all.
So now I call on you!
Remember me,
I gave you life.
You would not take it.
Your suffering
was all in vain,
it’s almost over now.
Don’t turn your back on paradise!
Feeling scared she’s prepared
to give up everything,
she can’t stand to feel like
half of her is fading.
He will choose the only way
to rid her of her pain.
Take her soul now, the
decision has been made.
Living in a world without love,
a burden to my soul,
is living in a worthless world.
So I will call on you!
Remember me,
I gave you life.
You would not take it.
Your suffering
was all in vain,
it’s almost over.
Remember me,
you were so young.
How could I tell you?
Remember me,
I am the one who saved
your life that night.
I was the one who
would not abandon you.
Even in death I was the one
who would not leave you.
I used my freedom to protect you
and all the while direct you.
Do you remember me this time,
even in death I gave you life.
I gave you life!
I wanted to
deserve a place,
a place beside you.
This time when I
reached out my hand,
it reached all the
way to Heaven.
Remember me,
I gave you life.
You would not take it.
Your suffering
was all in vain,
it’s almost over now.
Goodbye, it’s almost
over now, goodbye!
It’s time I release
you from this life.
Don’t turn your back on paradise!
8. In the Presence of Enemies (Part II)
Part 3: Heretic
Welcome tired pilgrim
into the circle,
we have been waiting.
Everyone’s gathered
for your arrival,
all the believers.
Angels fall all
for you, Heretic.
Demon heart bleed
for us!
I’ve been waiting for you,
weary preacher man.
You have been expected,
now we can begin.
Let this hallowed
day of Judgment reign.
I have known you father
and your sacred quest.
Blessed soldier fighting,
you shall never rest.
I have known you
but do you know me?
Angels fall all
for you, heretic.
Demon heart bleed
for us!
My soul is yours, Dark Master!
I will fight for you!
Dark Master within,
I will fight for you.
Dark Master of sin,
now my soul is yours.
Dark Master my guide,
I will die for you.
Dark Master inside!
I cannot see his face
but I could feel his spite,
a presence from the dead
abandoned by the light.
This shadow will
consume him from within.
This power that I sense,
the rage behind those eyes
is just a shrouded ghost,
a spirit sealed inside.
The body and the
soul both threats
for they are one!
Angels fall all
for you, heretic.
Demon heart bleed
for us!
My soul is yours, Dark Master!
I will fight for you!
Dark Master within,
I will fight for you.
Dark Master of sin,
now my soul is yours.
Dark Master my guide,
I will die for you.
Dark Master inside!
Dark Master, amen,
I belong to you!
Dark Master within.
Part 4: The Slaughter Of The Damned
Don’t bother trying to find them,
they will be coming to you.
Fight, fight and destroy until
you can’t take anymore.
Slay, spill the blood of the rebels,
they are the children of Hell.
Flesh of the undead stopping
at nothing to kill.
Sin, caught in a moment of weakness,
committed the greatest of all.
Sold half of my soul and now
it’s too late for you.
I judge as my eyes see,
I judge and I am just.
For I speak of the beast
that lives in all of us.
Unwelcome ones
your time has come!
Lord!
You are my God and my shepherd,
nothing more shall I want.
Walk through the abyss into
the shadow of death.
Fear!
There is no evil to fear now,
for I know you are with me.
My cup overflows with
my enemy’s blood.
I decay in the house
of the Lord, forever amen.
Death will follow me all
the days of my life.
I judge as my eyes see,
I judge and I am just.
For I speak of the beast
that lives in all of us.
Unwelcome ones
your time has come!
Servants of the fallen
fight to pave the way,
for their savior’s calling
on this wicked day.
Through a veil of madness
with a vicious blade
one man rises up,
standing in their way.
It’s time for your reckoning!
Part 5: The Reckoning
(Instrumental)
Part 6: Salvation
My soul grows weaker,
he knows and he waits.
He watches over me standing
at the infernal gates.
In the hour of darkness,
the moment I feared has passed.
The moment I lost my faith
promising salvation.
My soul is my own now!
I do not fight for you,
Dark Master.
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