Scenes from a Memory lyrics

[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.
Imagine a brilliant white light above you, focusing on this light as
it flows through your body. Allow yourself to drift off as you fall deeper and
deeper into a more relaxed state of mind. Now as I count backward from ten to

3) Scene Two: II. Strange Deja Vu (05:12)
- Mike Portnoy

[Present]
[Nicholas:]
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 vivid surprise
Another whole life waiting
Chapters unfinished, fading

[Past]
Closer now- Slowly coming into view

[N:]
All your eyes have ever seen
All you`ve ever heard
Is etched upon my memory
I spoken through my words
All that I take with me
Is all you`ve left behind
We`re sharing one eternity
Living in two minds
Linked by an endless thread
Impossible to break

5) Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy (06:49)
- John Myung

[Present]
[Nicholas:]
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 traveled to another home
I met an older man, he seemed to be alone
I felt that I could trust him
He talked to me that night;

[Headline:] "Murder, young girl killed
Desperate shooting at Echoe`s hill
Dreadful ending, killer died
Evidently suicide"
A witness heard a horrifying sound
He ran to find a woman dead and
Lying on the ground

Standing by her was a man
Nervous, shaking, gun in hand
Witness says he tried to help
But he`d turned the weapon on himself

His body fell across that poor young girl

[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 charade
The city`s cold blood calls me home
Home it`s what I long for
Back somewhere I belong

The city - it calls me
Decadent scenes from my memory
Sorrow - eternity
My demons are coming to drown me

10) Scene Seven: II. One Last Time (03:47)
- James LaBrie

[Present]
[Nicholas:]
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 Victoria wound his soul?
Did she bid him farewell?

[Past]
[Victoria:]
One last time
We'll lay down today
One last time
Until we fade away
One last time

[N:]
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go when we die?
What lies beyond
And what lay before?
Is anything certain in life?
They say " Life is too short"
"The here and the now"
And " You`re only given one shot"
But could there be more
Have I lived before
Or could tis be all that we`ve got?

If I die tomorrow
I`d be allright
Because I believe
That after we`re gone

[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 act fast to over up
I think that there`s still time

He`d seem hopeless and lost with this note
They`ll buy into the words that I wrote

" This feeling inside me
Finally found my love, I`ve finally broke free