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

4) Scene Three: I. Through My Words (01:02)
- John Petrucci

[Present]
[Nicholas:]
All your eyes have ever seen
All you've ever heard
Is etched upon my memory
Is 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

7) Scene Five: Through Her Eyes (05:29)
- John Petrucci

[Present]
[Nicholas:]
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 this tragedy
A sadness grows inside of me
It all seems so unfair

I'm learning all about my life
By looking through her eyes

Music by Dream Theater
Lyrics by John Petrucci

Nicholas:
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,

Music by dream theater

(instrumental)

Music & lyrics by John Petrucci

Hypnotherapist:

Music by dream theater

(instrumental)

ACT II
8) Scene Six: Home (12:53)
- Mike Portnoy

[Past]
[The 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 home... where I belong

The city- it calls to me
Decadent scenes from my memory

The Miracle:
Friday evening
The blood still on my hands
To think that she would leave me now
For that ungrateful man

Sole survivor
No witness to the crime
I must act fast to cover 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
No longer torn in two

6) Scene Four: Beyond This Life (11:22)
- John Petrucci

[Past]
Headline: Murder, young girl killed
Desperate shooting at Echo'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