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DREAM THEATER LYRICS
"When Dream and Day Unite Demos 1987-1989" (2004 Best of/Compilation)
1. Afterlife
2. The Killing Hand
3. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
4. Ytse Jam
5. Cry for Freedom
6. Resurrection of Ernie
7. Drum Solo
8. A Fortune in Lies
9. Only a Matter of Time
10. A Fortune in Lies
11. Afterlife
12. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
1. Afterlife
2. The Killing Hand
3. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
4. Ytse Jam
5. Cry for Freedom
6. Resurrection of Ernie
7. Drum Solo
8. A Fortune in Lies
9. Only a Matter of Time
10. A Fortune in Lies
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 vain futile memory
Could have been so wrong
You can make a fortune in lies
You can keep a giant alive
You can ride the red
Until everybody smiles
A trifling euphoria
was such an untimely religion
maybe your life can explain
the reason for my indecision
Here is a poor man
the heart of this monster creation
He said we both will be heroes
and I was led into temptation
You can make a fortune in lies
You can keep a giant alive
You can ride the red
Until everybody smiles
Can you show me your gold
and your silver
A hero in frozen water
Now you've made a fortune in lies
and you kept a giant alive
You rode the red
You rode the red
11. Afterlife
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
I search within
beneath a skin
that bears both pleasure and pain
full of doubt, deception, and delusion
seeking purpose to all earthly days
Behind closed eyes
some comfort lies
In knowing the truth never spoken
full of doubt, deception, and delusion
seeking purpose to all earthly days
[Chorus:]
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright
will cold be warm
will the day have no night
In the Afterlife
In the Afterlife
In the Afterlife
Behind closed eyes
some comfort lies
In knowing the truth never spoken
In this world with its
many illusions
We are moving like mice through a maze
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright
will cold be warm
will the day have no night
In the Afterlife
In the Afterlife
In the Afterlife
[Reapeat chorus to end]
12. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
Watching my window I was led like a child
As the roadway lamplights
misguided my mind through the night
a shadow of limits
We were racing the rain
my hands held the wheel
My eyes tried to hold their place
there must have been a time
when I thought that you were watching
It had to be when my senses lost control
I thought I'd slipped away
I thought I could still feel us moving
It must have been a cloud
no bigger than a man's hand
Every reason I risk my life
To come back to you
Is locked behind your door
You're my immunity
Outside I watched you burn
Heavy hearts were bleeding
A cry for help, a familiar voice
My melting hands streaked the glass
As I walked away
I wondered what had really happened
had I run out of time
did I push myself too far
As my last step fell
I felt my hands upon the wheel
had I come back to life
or did I ever leave at all
In higher lives
We seem to be
always a moment too late
We're past the time
when we looked on
Now we're
THE ONES WHO HELP TO SET THE SUN
this time for real
I locked the door behind me
My mind was still a wreck
from what I saw
For when my hands are still
I'll recognize the message
never again will my senses lose control
In higher lives
We seem to be
Always a moment too late
We're past the time
when we looked on
Now we're
THE ONES WHO HELP TO SET THE SUN
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