Come on people you should know this from dream theater

Still crazy how somebody can drum like Mangini or play complex guitar like Petrucci. Personally think it surpasses even DragonForce.

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The Enemy Inside

Dream Theater - The Enemy Inside

'Along For The Ride' is taken from Dream Theater's forthcoming self-titled masterpiece which is released on September 30th.
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Dream Theater // Along For The Ride

Dream Theater - Surrender to Reason

Hey you! out there in the cold 
Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me 
Hey you! Standing in the aisles 
With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me 
Hey you! don't help them to bury the live 
Don't give in without a fight. 
Hey you! out there on your own 
Sitting naked by the phone would you touch me 
Hey you! with your ear against the wall 
Waiting for someone to call out would you touch me 
Hey you! would you help me to carry the stone 
Open your heart, I'm coming home 
But it was only a fantasy 
The wall was too high as you can see 
No matter how he tried he could not break free 
And the worms ate into his brain. 
Hey you! out there on the road 
Always doing what you're told, can you help me 
Hey you! out there beyond the wall 
Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me 
Hey you! don't tell me there's no hope at all 
Together we stand, divided we fall. 

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The Alien

Dream Theater - The Alien

This was another song I wrote during those same emotionally turbulent high school years in the mid-1980s. If "Breakin' My Heart" was about the immediate shock of betrayal, "Shattered Illusions" dug deeper into the aftermath - that hollow feeling when you realize everything you believed about someone was built on lies.

The opening line "Midnight shadows, a phone that won't ring" perfectly captured those sleepless nights, waiting for someone who was never going to call. I remember writing that verse thinking about how naive I'd been, how I'd "built castles on empty words." The metaphor felt so real to me then - all those promises and dreams just crumbling down.

What I'm proud of in this song is the pre-chorus structure. Adding that extra emotional build before hitting the chorus made the impact stronger. "Shattering my world" felt like the perfect phrase to describe how completely someone could destroy your sense of reality when you're seventeen and think you know everything about love.

The bridge represents growth - moving from victim to survivor. "I'm done with your lies, done with the pain" shows that progression from hurt to empowerment that I was learning to navigate as a teenager. The outro ties it all together with "Your love was fiction, but I'll rise from this fall" - probably the most mature line I wrote at that age.

Like my other lyrics from that time, this sat dormant for decades until AI technology gave me the opportunity to finally hear these words with music. There's something magical about bringing teenage angst full circle with today's creative tools. The song now has that dramatic, emotional sound that matches the intensity I felt when I first wrote these words.

Dream Theater - The Enemy Inside

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