Post by Female Guitar Players on Jun 11, 2012 17:59:34 GMT -5
Dream Theater - Repentance (Album Version)
« Thread Started on Jan 16, 2012, 22:20 »
Dream Theater - Repentance (Album Version)
Uploaded by Vazoras on 15 Feb 2011
SYSTEMATIC CHAOS
-Released-June 4, 2007
-Recorded-September 2006 -- February 2007
-Avatar Studios in New York City
-Genre-Progressive metal
-Label-Roadrunner Records
* James LaBrie -- lead vocals
* John Myung -- bass
* John Petrucci -- guitars and backing vocals
* Mike Portnoy -- drums, percussion and backing vocals (co. lead vocals on "Constant Motion")
* Jordan Rudess -- keyboards and continuum
LYRICS:
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 my life I thought adorned me
Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament
Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me
As the pen begins to trace my darkest past
Signs throughout my life
that should have warned me
Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent
I once thought it better to regret
Things that I have done than haven't
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And learn the hard way
Sometimes you've got to be strong
When you think it's too late
Staring at the finished page before me
All the damage now so clear and evident
Thinking about the dreaded task in store for me
A bitter fear at the thought of my amends
Hoping that the step will help restore me
To face my past and ask for forgiveness
Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street
Could this be the beginning of the end?
I once thought it better to regret
Things that I have done than haven't
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And learn the hard way
Just when you're through hanging on
You're saved
IX. Restitution
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Self seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
You're only as sick as your secrets, but the truth shall set you free...
The truth is the truth, so all you can do is live with it.
« Thread Started on Jan 16, 2012, 22:20 »
Dream Theater - Repentance (Album Version)
Dream Theater - Repentance (Album Version)
Uploaded by Vazoras on 15 Feb 2011
SYSTEMATIC CHAOS
-Released-June 4, 2007
-Recorded-September 2006 -- February 2007
-Avatar Studios in New York City
-Genre-Progressive metal
-Label-Roadrunner Records
* James LaBrie -- lead vocals
* John Myung -- bass
* John Petrucci -- guitars and backing vocals
* Mike Portnoy -- drums, percussion and backing vocals (co. lead vocals on "Constant Motion")
* Jordan Rudess -- keyboards and continuum
LYRICS:
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 my life I thought adorned me
Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament
Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me
As the pen begins to trace my darkest past
Signs throughout my life
that should have warned me
Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent
I once thought it better to regret
Things that I have done than haven't
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And learn the hard way
Sometimes you've got to be strong
When you think it's too late
Staring at the finished page before me
All the damage now so clear and evident
Thinking about the dreaded task in store for me
A bitter fear at the thought of my amends
Hoping that the step will help restore me
To face my past and ask for forgiveness
Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street
Could this be the beginning of the end?
I once thought it better to regret
Things that I have done than haven't
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And learn the hard way
Just when you're through hanging on
You're saved
IX. Restitution
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Self seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
You're only as sick as your secrets, but the truth shall set you free...
The truth is the truth, so all you can do is live with it.