Remember me when I met you back in chicago?
Filthy bum twenty plus some with an old platitude
quot;mending fences or mending soulsquot;
That was all you had to say
But fate was fair my friend
Now it's your turn to walk in my place
Tell me how's the view from down there-
Come on don't you like it?
Suddenly you are no one and you feel like a freak
Down and out you just might find out who you
Rea...
Back in '61 to '65, their indifferences,
Could never hide the buried hopes
Of peace/that rest beneath them wearing
Grey or blue.
Did the burning of white mansions still
The fire inside their hearts to kill
Each other? the memories that lie where ash remains.
They marched all the fathers and sons
To a slaughter/
Then the widows and daughters knew
That no one would march back home.
Can you feel ...
When your mind stays awake and your body cries for sleep
Disillusioned from the pain you're in way too deep.
As the chains bind your soul and the sweat takes it's toll
Don't submit to addiction - can't escape the whole world.
You're just looking for something - you can't find it in a bottle
You accelerate to the limit - three more hits and the throttle
Will take you to the grave - to an early ...
The solano county engineering archives, vault 1
Feel free, write your scathing indictment
Pick us apart with your joke of a pen
Pacified poet, standing alone you know it
I hear you preaching:
quot;do it again - won't you please do it again? quot;
Plenty of time - hear the hypocrites whine
Pathetic business -
Take it, test it, know it, burn it
It's all a game you play so mealy mouthed
At the tr...
We're living proof of these uncertain times
Lost all our money and we've done our time
I've got no answers-only questions now
No point in starting over
Does no good anyhow.
I'm not a critic and I'm not a friend
Coming to terms or coming to an end?
Another test of wills could bring us down
I sense a confrontation in the way we sound
I hate to say I told you so-
Before you never listened to a wo...
quot;these are my last words, their treasonous hands
Have us all under siege, now do you understand? quot;
Gossens ministers - all at hand
Will take up final stations
As the coup hunts a single man
No offer of exile did he take in his last trial...
Covert action - santiago
The u.s. denies it but the president knows
Broken fathers, strut of the guard
See cruel opportunists where the losers die ...
Fly the flag
Put your hand on your heart
You can be assured
That you've done your part
Watch the nation bleed
From the comfort of your chair
And then you'll just become
A lazy bum sitting there
Friends of america
Where are you now?
Get up and do something for
America, all of us stand up now.
Face the facts, we must practice
What we preach/let go of yesterday -
There is an answer in our reach.
...
There comes a moment in time
Before ascent or decline
You'll face your darkest hours
When other see in your face
The test of wills you've embraced
You are your own opponent
Keeping your focus in the rat race
Do what you have to so you can keep pace
You'll love the contact if you wear a gameface
Harvest a new relation
Engage some tribulation
Progress by confrontation?
You stand in awe but don't...
Bret douglas - lead vocals
Trent gardner - harmonies
When every word has been written
When every line has been read
When every person cries for justice
And every partner drops dead
When every loss has been suffered
When every war has been fought
When every son been laid to rest
When every lesson has been taught
There comes a time when you realize
It's all over - sooner or later
All of us toget...
Matt bradley - lead vocals
gardner solo
petrucci solo
In just a moment your life can slip away
Wasting time by wasting chances
When all that's left here is emptiness and hope
It's always darkest before the dawn will show
So I've got to stay right
Just to see it
I've got to rise up and be much more
There's nothing's new here
My impact fading fast
Why seize the hour if I can not make it last
The...
James labrie - lead vocals
Trent gardner - harmonies
gardner solo
bemesderfer solo
Just call me mr. dark - mr. negative
I'm pessimistic, fatalistic, with an attitude
That's turned ballistic
No rhyme or reason
No symmetry and no excuse
Let it go - flow with the chaos
Hold tight 'cause I can't refuse
Fate speaks, fate speaks loudly
Can't you see there's no returning
Once you've started down this...
D.c. cooper - lead vocals
When every word has been written
And every line has been read
When every person cries for justice
When every partner drops dead
When every loss has been suffered
When every war has been fought
When every son's been laid to rest
When every lesson has been taught
Spoken: quot;and this is the moment when you will
Make your impact...an intensity found in your
Life when yo...
James labrie - lead vocals and choruses
Trent gardner - lead vocals from last
Chorus through outro and harmony vocals
I've heard enough
Let's make it happen
Let's turn it over
Make life a positive
No more excuses
I'm making progress
I'm moving forward
With new promises
There's nothing left but boredom
Nothing left but pain
There's barely time enough to die
It's all been done before
There's not...
Caught you sleeping on the railroad track
You were so tired that you took a nap
Tied you up while you were on your back
And they told you that your name was jack
Well, they thought you might have been the
Missing link
Make some big cash with those two big feet
A carnival crew's on the city street
Pay admission just to see the freak-
Named jacko...
A sign of the times
Please forgive we're just ...
Walking on a still green sea-have you got the faith to let
It be?
Without falling through like an anchor tied - to your
Weighted memories of guilty times.
Stepping on a bed of coals - does little damage to the icy souls
'cause there's just one bridge between pain and hope
So keep mind sharp enough to stay afloat - while
You're here......
I. magna carta overture instrumental
Ii. declaration
John the king of england
Duke of normandy count of aquitaine
Spoke to all his subjects
Declaring freedom and reform in this present charter...
Iii. status quo
In the first place it is our will
Before we quarrel there are rights to instill
Upon our heirs, confirmed with grace
The english church shall stand in faith
If any earl or baron dies
A...
[verse 1]
I hear you laughing loudly
But I'm not laughing with you
Well you may be joking first
But I'll be the one who has the last laugh
[verse 2]
You call yourself quot;progressivequot;
I say it's all regressive
You think you can stand in judgment
So listen here and I'll remind you
[quot;chorusquot;]
Preaching the converted 'cause it's all you know
Music's dead because it's all about the mo...
A writer like a blacksmith-forging works of iron
The jagged edges tempered into solid scripts for hire
Solitary craftsman at his console merging audio discrete
An ever changing soundscape sets the stage; the twains shall meet
In a union strong
Just like a working stiff
He is a songsmith
In a strange synthesis
quot;restorationquot; announced
It's the new riffs that count no mainstream bore play...
Crossing the line of demarcation
They took a passage to the west
Dead reckoning they doubled back
Into the north they anchored for bad weather
San martin and magellan almost lost sight of the flagship
The santiago and victoria led
No sign of land altered the course
Why not return for winter?
No violation of direct royal orders
The men, the officers, all cried quot;returnquot;
No captains that ...
Wish it could be prosperity
That's waiting around the corner
All I can see is more agony
I don't believe things are better
Want it for you - want it for me
Let's do it and keep our sanity
Always a fight - we both may be right
Too stubborn to see
It's not adversity, it's polarity
A balance that keeps the day
Can't we agree to disagree?
It just might work out this way
Want it for you - want it f...
Welcome these players to your stage
Progressive, we cleverly syncopate
These rhythms, in a key, in an overture
Directing our experience into yours.
Waiting here for a visionary
Imagine living the new possibilities
In a matter of time you're a
Winner/success at hand/it's all
In your future just take command.
Anyone can be a winner
We all want a winner
Everybody wants one -
We all want a winner.
We must search together or united we'll fall
Standing at the crossroad - just the two of us.
Will you travel with me? I'll take the surest path
In this hour of restoration...
Language and meter
Tools for a task
Structure and movement
There's logic at last
Critical rave
Misanthrope hired
Humans want quickness
So keep it under the wire
quot;the pit and the pendulumquot;
quot;the man of the crowdquot;
quot;the tell tale heartquot;
His characters move
Baptism by fire
The poet's survival kept under the wire...
Magic land so far away - was
It worth the voyage in these days?
The lives of soldiers thrown away
In medieval claims to yesterday...
Off the starboard bow/in the
Heat of the night/we visualize
Apocalypse in the fire fight,
The parliament says quot;it's necessaryquot;
But birmingham calls you home/
The neighborhood, the family, the
Mind begins to roam.
Ocean currents flowing/taking
Vessels to a...
Experience machines that know your thoughts and know your dreams
A better way of seeing things you won't believe it's real
Interact, you and i-there's a feeling lost we can't deny
I've opened up. we never tried to simulate it all.
Our love-it can be a virtual reality.
If we learn by degrees that the place you stand I may not be
In human change it's hard to see which barriers divide
What appear...
Fear in a young one with innocence
A crisis I must resolve to handle with
Competence
He wants to know if he will be quot;takenquot; too
He worried - he asked me point blank
quot;will I ever be as old as you? quot;
He just afraid at a young age
Don't want to leave you at a young age
Son I am sorry that things are not always
The way they appear
And don't you think about it anymore today
We've go...
We are the misfits with a broken horizon
Like Keats or Hemingway, survive with poets defiance
Christmas at the Martinique grieving for a home
Three generations tough it out on the big street all alone...
Rank of the privileged on the evening commute
Don't want to be bothered, don't want to be used
booming in suburbia, shuttle's on the way
A beggar asks for money. It's a dollar you don't want t...
