Train of Thought Lyrics (2003)

Dream Theater Train of Thought Lyrics Album

Train of Thought Lyrics Album by Dream Theater

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1. As I Am

Don’t tell me what’s in,
tell me how to write,
don’t tell me how to
win this fight.

It isn’t your life,
it isn’t your right to take
the only thing that’s mine.

Proven over time,
it’s over your head,
don’t try to read between.

The lines are clearly defined!
Never lose sight of something
you believe in.

Taking in the view
from the outside,
feeling like the underdog.

Watching through the window,
I’m on the outside.
Living like the underdog!

I’ve been trying
to justify you,
in the end I will
just defy you.

To those who understand
I extend my hand,
to the doubtful I demand
take me as I am.

Not under your command,
I know where I stand.
I won’t change to fit
your plan.

Take me as I am!

Still running uphill,
swimming against the current,
I wish I weren’t so fucked.
Feels like I’m stuck,
lost in a sea of mediocrity.

Slow down!

You’re thinking too much,
where is your soul?
You cannot touch the way I play,
or tell me what to say.

You’re in the way of
all that I believe in.

Taking in the view
from the outside,
feeling like the underdog.

Watching through the window,
I’m on the outside.
Living like the underdog!

I’ve been wasting
my breath on you,
open minds will
descend upon you.

To those who understand
I extend my hand,
to the doubtful I demand
take me as I am.

Not under your command,
I know where I stand.
I won’t change to fit
your plan.

Take me as I am!

2. This Dying Soul

Alcoholics Anonymous/Twelve-step Suite

Part 4: Reflections Of Reality (Revisited)

Hello Mirror!
So glad to see you my friend,
it’s been a while.

Searching fearless,
where do I begin to heal
this wound of self-denial?

Face yourself man!
Brace yourself and
trace your Hell back.

You’ve been blinded,
living life a one-way cold
existence all the while!

Now it’s time to stare the
problem right between the eyes,
you long lost child!

I want to feel your body breaking,
want to feel your body breaking
and shaking and left in the cold

I want to heal your conscience,
making a change to fix this
dying soul, this dying soul.

This dying soul!

Born into this world, a broken home,
surrounded by love yet all alone.
Forced into a life that’s split in two,
a mother and a father both pulling you.

Then you had to deal with loss and death,
everybody thinking they know best.
Coping with this shit at such an age
can only fill a kid with pain and rage.

Family disease pumped through your blood,
never had the chance you thought you could.
running all the while with no escape,
turning all that pain in to blame and hate.

Living on your own by twenty-one,
not a single care and having fun.
Consuming all the life in front of you,
burning out the fuse and smoking the residue.

Possessive obsessions,
selfish childish games,
vengeful resentments,
passing all the blame.

Living out a life of decadence,
acting without thought of consequence.
Spreading all your lies from coast to coast
while spitting on the ones that matter most.

Running power mad with no control,
fighting for the credit they once stole.
No one can ever tell you what to do,
ruling others’ lives while they can’t
stand the thought of you!

A living reflection
seen from miles away,
a hopeless affliction
having run astray.

I want to feel your body breaking,
want to feel your body breaking
and shaking and left in the cold

I want to heal your conscience,
making a change to fix this
dying soul, this dying soul.

This dying soul!

Now that you can see all you have done
it’s time to take that step into the kingdom,
all your sins will only make you strong and
help you break right through the prison wall.

Part 5: Release

Come to me my friend,
I’ll help this torture end.
Listen to me,
help to set me free!

Let your ego go,
you can’t go through this alone.
I can’t carry this load,
I feel so hopeless and exposed!

You’ll find your peace of mind,
you can no longer hide.
Give me some direction,
break out of this isolation.

Let humility,
and become what you can be.
Openness, honesty,
a healing tranquility.

Help me, save me, heal me,
I can’t break out of this
prison all alone.

These tormenting ghosts of
yesterday will vanish when exposed.
You can’t hold onto your secrets,
they’ll only send you back alone.

Your fearless admissions will help
expel your destructive obsessions.
With my help I know you can,
be at one with God and man.

Hear me, believe me, take me,
I’m ready to break right through
this prison wall.

3. Endless Sacrifice

Cold, lying in my bed,
staring into darkness.
Lost, I hear footsteps overhead
and my thoughts return again.

Like a child who’s run away
and won’t be coming back
time keeps passing by as
night turns into day.

I’m so far away and so alone,
I need to see your face to keep
me sane, to make we whole.

Try to stay alive
until I hear your voice
I’m gonna lose my mind!

Someone tell me why I chose
this life, this superficial lie!
Constant compromise,
endless sacrifice!

Pain, it saddens me to know
the helplessness you feel.
Your light shines on my soul
while a thousand candles burn.

Outside this barren room
the rain is pouring down,
the emptiness inside is
growing deeper still.

You’re so far away and so alone.
You long for Love’s embrace to keep
you sane, to make you whole.

Try to stay alive
until I hear your voice
I’m gonna lose my mind!

Someone tell me why I chose
this life, this superficial lie!
Constant compromise,
endless sacrifice!

Moments wasted, isolated,
time escaping, endless sacrifice!
Moments wasted, isolated,
time escaping, endless sacrifice!

Over the distance we try to make sense
of surviving together while living apart.
Striving for balance, we rise to the challenge
of staying connected in spite of circumstance.

All you’ve forsaken and all that you’ve done
so that I could live out this undying dream
won’t be forgotten or taken for granted,
I’ll always remember your endless sacrifice.

Moments wasted, isolated,
time escaping, endless sacrifice!
Moments wasted, isolated,
time escaping, endless sacrifice!

4. Honor Thy Father

We’re taught unconditional love,
that blood is thicker than water,
that a parent’s world would revolve
always around their son or their daughter.

You pretended I was your own
and even believed that you loved me,
but were always threatened by some
invisible blood line that only you could see.

You took advantage of an outreached hand
and twisted it to meet your every need.
“Gimme time to recharge my batteries,
I’ll see her when she’s older and
I’ll bounce her on my knee.”

Well listen to me you ungrateful fool,
here comes a dose of reality!

You’ll go to your grave
a sad and lonely man,
the door is now closed on
your pathetic little plan.

On and on and
on and on it goes,
it’s so easy to run away
with nothing in tow.

How can you ever sleep a wink at night,
pretending that everything is all right
and have the nerve to blame this mess on me?

Never in my life have I seen someone
so ignorant to the damage he has done,
you’re the rotted root in the family tree.

I tried your 4 bill therapy,
I tried to make amends,
but nothing could lure you
out of your selfish shell again.

Expecting everyone
to bow and kiss your feet,
don’t you see respect is
not a one-way street?

Blaming everyone for
all that you’ve done wrong,
I’ll get my peace of mind
when you hear this song.

On and on and
on and on it goes,
and with every passing day
true colors show.

How can you ever sleep a wink at night,
pretending that everything is all right,
and have the balls to blame this mess on me?

Never in my life have I seen someone
oblivious to the damage he has done,
you’re the rotted root in the family tree.

Watch where you walk, don’t you
dare cross the crooked step.
Watch the way you talk,
don’t cross the crooked step!

“This is a regret that you make.”
“We just don’t connect.”
“This is a regret that you make…”
“I want my family back!”
“…and there’s something you take.”

“You can’t have it,
I’m sorry for you but
it’s too late!”

“Mistakes like this you don’t make.”
“Can’t you see anything except in
terms of how it affects you?”
“You make some and they’ll get to you!”

“You don’t love anybody! I gave you money,
I gave you a car, I took you in…”
“It’s not OK, son!”
“…but don’t that mean something?”
“A little…”

“Do I admire people too much?”
“No, you should do better!”
“That disappoints you…”
“God damn regrets!”

“You deserve to die alone
for what you’ve done!”
“God damn regrets!”

“Don’t deny it!”
“You cocksucker,
I know you can hear me.”
“Don’t deny it!”

“I want you to know I
hate your fucking guts!”
“The biggest regret in my life!”
“I wish you’d fucking die.”
“I let my love go!”

“I’m your blood, I’m your family.”
“Is that you?”
“You’re not my family, not anymore”
“The fucking regrets!”

“When your own flesh
and blood renounces you…”
“What did I do?”
“…you have no choice but
to renounce them.”
“What did I do?”

On and on and
on and on it goes.
Chauvinistic, heartless,
selfish, cold!

How can you ever sleep a wink at night,
pretending that everything is all right
and have the balls to blame this shit on me?

Never in my life have I seen someone
so fucking blind to the damage he has done,
you’re the rotted root in the family tree.

5. Vacant

Hey you, hey you,
I’m right here!
Conscience fading,
can’t get through.

Oh Lord, helpless, confused,
head swayed, eyes glazed
and mine teared.

She’s losing control,
what can I do?
Her vacant eyes, black holes,
am I losing you?

6. Stream of Consciousness

(Instrumental)

7. In the Name of God

How can this be,
why is he the chosen one?
Saint gone astray with
a scepter and a gun.

Learn to believe in
the mighty and the strong.
Come bleed the beast,
follow me, it won’t be long.

Listen when the prophet speaks to you,
killing in the name of God!
Passion twisting faith into violence
in the name of God!

Straight is the path
leading to your salvation.
Slaying the weak,
ethnic elimination.

Any day we’ll all be swept away,
you’ll be saved as long as you obey.

Lies, tools of the Devil inside,
written in holy disguise, meant to
deceive and divide us all.

Listen when the prophet speaks to you,
killing in the name of God!
Passion twisting faith into violence
in the name of God!

Blurring the lines
between virtue and sin,
they can’t tell where God
ends and mankind begins.

They know no other life but this,
from the cradle they are claimed.

Listen when the prophet speaks to you,
killing in the name of God!
Passion twisting faith into violence
in the name of God!

Hundreds of believers
lured into a doomsday cult,
all would perish in
the name of God.

Self-proclaimed Messiah
led his servants to their death,
eighty murdered in the name of God.

Forty sons and daughters,
unconsenting plural wives,
perversions in the name of God.

Underground religion turning
toward the mainstream light,
blind devotion in the name of God.

Justifying violence, citing
from the Holy Book, teaching
hatred in the name of God.

Listen when the prophet speaks to you,
killing in the name of God!
Passion twisting faith into violence
in the name of God!

In the name of God!

Religious beliefs,
fanatic obsession,
does following faith
lead us to violence?

Unyielding crusade,
divine revelation,
does following faith
lead us to violence?

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