- Mike Portnoy I The Crimson Sunrise (Instrumental) II Innocence I remember a time My frail, virgin mind Watched the crimson sunrise Imagined what it might fi...

I can remember when, In the unity of our five-day sessions Not even once did we hear the siren song What kind of imagination Asleep in some lyrical coma Who?s v...

[Erotomania] [instrumental] [Voices] "Love, just don't stare" He used to say to me every Sunday morning The spider in the window' The angel in the pool The o...

Mvt 1: A Nightmare to remember I'd never be the same What began as laughter So soon would turn to pain The sky was clear and frigid The air was thick and still ...

This is the new world order Played upon our fears Spreading accusations of radical ideas The brotherhood, of wisdom, Strength, and Dignity It's rituals and secr...

She can't stop pacing She never felt so alive Her thoughts are racing Set on overdrive It takes a village This she knows is true they're expecting her And she'...

I touched with one Who made me run Away from my own soul In this world with its Many illusions We are moving like mice through a maze And now I find What?s lef...

(THIS SONG IS ACTUALLY OFF JAMES LaBRIE'S SOLO ALBUM ELEMENTS OF PERSUASION) Don't want to lie to you Don't want to cause you pain But it's all I ever do And i...

Helpless child They invite your hands to fill their needs Will be the same Shameless smile To steal from you the innocence that bleeds Will they feel your pain ...

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 i...

Don't Tell me what's in Tell me how to write Don't tell me how to win This fight Isn't your life It isn't your right To take the only thing that's Mine Proven ...

Is there ever really a right time You had led me to believe Some day you would be there for me When the stars above aline When you weren't so concerned I kept ...

Remember days of yesterday And how it flew so fast The two score and a year we had, I thought would always last The summer days and west coast dreams, I wished...

Headline: "Murder, young girl killed Desperate shooting at Echo's Hill Dreadful ending, killer died Evidently suicide" A witness heard a horrifying sound He ra...

2nd Degree - Blind Faith [10:21] music by Myung, Petrucci, Portnoy, Rudess lyrics by James LaBrie Hear me, speaking Asking why I even bother Tell me, how you L...

With the sun in place There's a test of faith Streams of thought awaken New realities Singularities Breaking all illusions Sun in burst of heat Burning source o...

Blackness Awakens Visions come alive Seeing Through darkness With borrowed eyes Dancer fire Take me higher Reunite my soul Whisperer of truth I trust in you ...

Today I will be a saviour Tomorrow a demon You crave my eratic behaviour And watch my every move Obsession at all costs You'll be the death of me Broken and tor...

A thorn in my side, a chip on my shoulder A lump in my throat, the size of a boulder The chill up my spine, can't get any colder And you wonder why I can't smil...

I'll always remember The chill of November The news of the fall The sounds in the hall The clock on the wall ticking away "Seize the Day" I heard him say Life w...

A single star behind me A red sky burns ahead A lonely light below me Awake among the dead I can't hold on any longer These feelings keep growing stronger Echoe...

- james labrie and john petrucci Silence disguised I watch you Show me the hurt That haunts you Would you despise the thrill If all you hide were mine? I can'...

Tunnel vision at blinding speed Controlling my thoughts, obsessing me Void of any uncertainty Throughout my very soul Lost illusions of my control Resisting al...

Seven years ago In a foreign town Far away from home I met the Count of Tuscany A young eccentric man Bred from royal blood Took me for a ride Across the open ...

[with barney greenway from napalm death on vocals ] - ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott's jazz club, london - 1/31/95) - james hetfield (metallica - from the a...

No one dared to Speak of the terrible danger The hideous ancient warnings Forged in the void of night He is risen up Out of the blackness Chaos The last of the...

[All of Different Strings with an instrumental "outro" consisting of a ] [snippet of Analog Kid (from the album "Signals") followed by part of ] [La Villa Str...

5th Degree - Disappear [06:46] music by Myung, Petrucci, Portnoy, Rudess lyrics by James LaBrie Why, tell me the reasons why Try, still I don't understand Will ...

[Demo from 1989/90, with John Hendricks on vocals Also available ] [with James LaBrie on vocals on the "Antiquities" CD ] - Kevin Moore "I don't k...

Cold, lying in my bed starring 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 T...

A stream that flows through time Without direction The care it holds the line Abstract instruction The liquid of life You and I The banks are lined with lies Th...

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 Forsa...

- ("Uncovered" show at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London - 1/31/95) (From the "A Change Of Seasons" EP) - Elton John and Bernie Taupin (from the album "Goodbye Y...

[Studio demo from 1988, with Charlie Dominici on vocals] - John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles - from the album Abbey Road) [Golden Slumbers] Once the...

Goodnight kiss in your nightgown Lavender in your bed So innocent as you lie down Sweet dreams that run through your head Are you lonely without Mommy's love? ...

He's just a kind of man You hear about Who leaves his family for An easy out They never said a word He couldn't take another day Carry me to the shoreline Bury...

Shine- lake of fire Lines take me higher My mind drips desire Confined and overtired Living this charade Is getting me nowhere I can't shake this charade The c...

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 pretend I wa...

There's a story in your eyes I can see the hurt behind your smile For every sign I recognize Another one escapes me Let me know what plagues your mind Let me b...

- John Petrucci A question well served, 'Is silence like a fever?' 'A voice never heard?' 'Or a message with no receiver?' Pray they won't ask Behind the stai...

Napalm showers Showed the cowards We weren't there to mess around Through heat exhaustion And mind distortion A military victory mounted on innocent ground Hear...

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...

- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott?s jazz club, london - 1/31/95) - john wetton and eddie jobson (uk - from the album "uk") Are you one of mine who can sleep ...

So ya Thought ya Might like to go to the show To feel the warm thrill of confusion That space cadet glow Tell me is something eluding you sunshine? Is this not ...

How can this be? Why is he the chosen one? Saint gone astray With a scepter and a gun Learn to believe In the might and the strong Come bleed the beast Follo...

I saw a bright light, shinning there before Walk to it, I waited've for the end A final vision promising salvation Of resurrection for a fallen man Do you stil...

- john petrucci Animation Breathes a cloudless mind Fascination Leaves the doubting blind Until the circle breaks and wisdom lies ahead The faithful live awake...

Look in the mirror Does it look familiar Cannot put my finger Why he kinda looks like me Used to like hooking up with you After waking first thing I'd do One s...

Open your eyes And turn off your mind Step right folks and you will find A growing trend An epidemic Spread with zen And hypodermics Just close your mind You ca...

I The Observance An Angel's kiss now fallen Descending scarlet cuts the sky Faded names left on the wall Honor the fighting leave life to die Remembered is the...

There was no time for pain No energy for anger The sightlessness of hatred slips away Walking through winter streets alone He stops and takes a breath With conf...

He seems alone and silent thoughts remain without an answer Afraid and uninvited he slowly drifts away Moved by desire and fear Breaking delicate wings Liftin...

Sometimes, for a moment of bliss And the passion, we're craving There's a message we miss Sometimes when, the spirits left alone We must believe in something To...

She dresses in black everyday She keeps her hair simple and plain She never wears makeup But no one would care if she did anyway She doesn't recall yesterday F...

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 t...

- john petrucci The God of emperor deliverer of rakis Stages his royal ascent For the time has come for the tyrant To unleash the golden path The lease of thei...

The smile of dawn Arrived in 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 D...

The smile of dawn, arrived during 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 De...

The water's edge Is where she waits Lost soul still wondering Meant to die But she's stuck Not crossing over The other side Is where he waits His spirit reach...

3rd Degree - Misunderstood [09:34] music by Myung, Petrucci, Portnoy, Rudess lyrics by John Petrucci Waiting In the calm of desolation Wanting to break From th...

The place she called home was high on a hill, way up in a big house under the trees Day's in the sun she's seen by the river, reading a book, feeding her dreams...

On the road to anywhere, in a place that exists without time I met a girl who sang to me but her songs had no rhythm or rhyme I couldn't feel, I could not think...

Cut myself open wide Reach inside Help yourself To all I have to give And then you help yourself again And then complain that You didn't like the way I put the ...

A single star behind me A red sky burns ahead A lonely light below me Awake among the dead An overwhelming feeling Leaves me numb and strange A sense of new beg...

I never wanted to become Someone like him So secure Content to live each day Just like the last I was sure I knew that This was not for me And I wanted so much ...

Standing on the backs of angels Destined to create Mounting the attack While heroes carry your weight We spiral towards disaster Survival fading faster Riding...

Somewhere overhead 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 Rainin...

All wound up On the edge Terrified Sleep disturbed Restless mind Petrified Bouts of fear Permeate All I see Heightening Nervousness Threatens me I am paraly...

- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott?s jazz club, london - 1/31/95) (from the "a change of seasons" ep) - ritchie blackmore, roger glover and ian gillan (deep pu...

There, there it is I swear he's gonna murder that poor kid Wait, I hear again Don't turn on the lights until we Hear the way it ends Under peruvian skies Vanes...

It burns deep down inside of me, We have ourselves to blame Not questioning, accepted as the truth Debate this faggots just cause, The facts do not support the...

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 withou...

Have I thanked you for your time? Or will your life go unrewarded Again? Never asking for a dime You just gave all of yourself Until I turned my back on you My ...

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 ...

Run - fast from the wreckage of the past A shattered glass prison wall behind me Fight - past walking through the ashes A distant oasis before me Cry - despera...

This is the new world order Played upon our fears Spreading accusations Of radical ideas The brotherhood of wisdom Strength and dignity Its rituals and secrets...

[Left: This has all the appearances of an extraordinarily well coordinated and Devastating terrorist attack— Right: —terrorism against our nation will not stan...

[Miracle:] Friday evening The blood still on my hands To think that she would leave me now For that grateful man Sole survivor No witness to the crime I must ...

She never really had a chance On that fateful moonlit night Sacrificed without a fight A victim of her circumstance Now that I've become aware And I've exposed...

[Headline:] "Murder, young girl killed Desperate shooting at Echoe`s hill Dreadful ending, killer died Evidently suicide" A witness heard a horrifying sound H...

[H:] "Close your eyes and begin to relax Take a deep breath, and let it out slowly Concentrate on your breathing With each breath you become more relaxed Imagi...

It doesn't make any sense this tragic ending In spite of the evidence there's something still missing Heard some of the rumors told a taste of one's wealth Did ...

[Sleeper:] Shine-lake of fire Lines take me higher My mind drips desire Confined and overtired Living this charade Is getting me nowhere I can`t shake this ch...

Alone at night I feel so strange I need to find all the answers to my dreams When I sleep at night I hear the cries what does this mean? I shut the door and tr...

Subconscious strange sensation Unconscious relaxation What a pleasant nightmare And I can't wait to get there again Every time I close my eyes There's another ...

Freedom - Calls my name Serenity – Keeps me sane Happiness – It does the pain Honor - To see my prays Open - To run away Willingness - To understand Justice - W...

- Jimmy Page / Robert Plant (Led Zepplin - from the album "Led Zepplin IV") Oh! Working from seven To eleven every night It really makes life a drag, I don't ...

He seemed no different from the rest Just a healthy normal boy His mama always did her best And he was daddy's pride and joy He learned to walk and talk on tim...

Subconscious Strange Sensation Unconscious relaxation What a pleasant nightmare And I can't wait to get there again Every time I close my eyes There's another ...

Morning comes too early and nighttime falls too late And sometimes all I want to do is wait The shadow I've been hiding in has fled from me today I know it's e...

"Hold it nowwait a minutecome on whew" 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 ...

- ("uncovered" show at ronnie scott?s jazz club, london - 1/31/95) [an acoustic version can be found on the "acoustic dreams" cd] - geddy lee (rush - from the a...

Look around Where do you belong Don't be afraid You're not the only one Don't let the day go by Don't let it end Don't let a day go by in doubt The answer lies...

I'm much wiser now A lifetime of memories run through my head They taught me how for better or worse, alive or dead I realize there's no turning back Life goes ...

[recorded live at the l'amour, ny, 9/25/1986 with chris collins on vocals] [available on the "no sleep since brooklyn/instrumental iii" cd ] [these are the ly...

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 1st Degree - The Glass Prison [13:52] music by Myung, Petrucci, Portnoy, Rudess lyrics by Mike Portnoy I REFLECTION Cunning, Baf...

VI Ready Proud enough for you to call me arrogant Greedy enough to be labeled a thief Angry enough for me to go and hurt a man Cruel enough for me to feel no g...

[I The Rover] [Written by Jimmy Page/Robert Plant] [From the album "Physical Graffiti" - 1975] [Instrumental] [II Achilles Last Stand] [Written by Jimmy Pag...

A question well served Is silence like a fever, A voice never heard Or a message with no receiver? Pray they won't ask Behind the stained glass There's always ...

Standing in the darkness Waiting for the light The smell of pure adrenaline Burning in the night Random blinding flashes Aiming at the stage Intro tape begins ...