Octavarium
Dream Theater

Music: Dream Theater

I. SOMEONE LIKE HIM

Lyrics: John Petrucci

I never wanted to become someone like him so secure
Content to live each day just like the last
I was sure I knew that
This was not for me
And I wanted so much more
Far beyond what I could see
So I swore that I'd
Never be someone like him

So many years have passed
Since I proclaimed
My independence
My mission
My aim
And my vision
So secure
Content to live each day like it's my last
It's wonderful to know
That I could be
Something more than I dreamed
Far beyond what I could see
Still I swear that I'm
Missing out this time

As far as I could tell
There's nothing more I need
But still I ask myself
Could this be everything
Then all I swore
That I would never be was now
So suddenly
The only thing
I wanted
To become
To be someone just like him

II. MEDICATE (Awakening)

Lyrics: James LaBrie

A Doctor sitting next to me
He asks me how I feel
Not sure I understand his questioning
He says I've been away a while
But thinks he has cured me
From a state of catatonic sleep

For 30 years
Where have I been
Eyes open
But not getting through to me

Medicate me
Infiltrate me
Side effects appear
As my conscience slips away

Medicate me
Science failing
Conscience fading fast
Can't you stop what's happening

A higher dosage he prescribes
But there's no guarantee
I feel it starting to take over me
I tell him not to be ashamed
There's no one who's to blame
A second shot
A brief awakening

I feel the relapse
Can't break free
Eyes open
But not getting through to me

III. FULL CIRCLE

Lyrics: Mike Portnoy

sailing on the seven seize the day tripper diem's ready
jack the ripper owens wilson phillips and my supper's ready
lucy in the sky with diamond dave's not here I come to save the
day for nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again

Running forward
Falling back
Spinning round and round
Looking outward
Reaching in
Scream without a sound

Leaning over
Crawling up
Stumbling all around
Losing my place
Only to find I've come full circle

flying off the handle with careful with
that axe eugene gene the dance machine
messiah light my fire gabba gabba
hey hey my my generation's home again

Running forward
Falling back
Spinning round and round
Looking outward
Reaching in
Scream without a sound

Leaning over
Crawling up
Stumbling all around
Losing my place
Only to find I've come full circle

IV. INTERVALS

Lyrics: Mike Portnoy

Our deadly sins feel his mortal wrath
Remove all obstacles from our path

Asking questions
Search for clues
The answer's been right in front of you

Try to break through
Long to connect
Fall on deaf ears and fails muted breath

Loyalty, trust, faith and desire
Carries love through each darkest fire

Tortured Insanity
A smothering hell
Try to escape but no avail

The calls of admirers
Who claim they adore
Drain all your lifeblood while begging for more

Innocent victims of merciless crimes
Fall prey to some madmen's impulsive designs

Step after step
We try controlling our fate
When we finally start living it has become too late

Trapped inside this Octavarium
Trapped inside this Octavarium
Trapped inside this Octavarium
Trapped inside this Octavarium

V. RAZOR'S EDGE

Lyrics: John Petrucci

We move in circles
Balanced all the while
On a gleaming razor's edge

A perfect sphere
Colliding with our fate
This story ends where it began


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The Silent Man   A Mind Beside Itself: The Silent Man   A Mind Beside Itself: Voices   A Nightmare To Remember   A Rite of Passage   A Tempting Offer   A Vision   About To Crash   About To Crash (Reprise)   Act of Faythe   Afterlife   Alone   Along For The Ride   Anna Lee   Another Day   Another Hand / The Killing Hand   Another Won   As I Am   Astonishing   Bad   Begin Again   Behind The Veil   Beneath The Surface   Best Of Times   Beyond This Life   Blind Faith   Bombay Vindaloo   Breaking All Illusions   Bridges In The Sky   Brother, Can You Hear Me?   Build Me Up, Break Me Down   Burning My Soul   Burning My Soul (demo Version)   Carpe Diem   Caught In A New Millennium   Caught In A Web   Chosen   Closing Scene   Constant Motion   Count Of Tuscany   Cover My Eyes   Cry for Freedom   Damage, Inc.   Dark Eternal Night   Descent of the Nomacs   Different Strings / Analog Kid / La Villa Strangia...   Disappear   Dissapear   Don't Look Past Me   Don't Look Past Me   Easter   Endles Sacrifice   Endless Sacrifice   Enigma Machine   Erotomania   Eve   False Awakening Suite   Far From Heaven   Fatal Tragedy   Finally Free   Finally Free (Live)   Forsaken   Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding   Gates Of Babylon   Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight   Goodbye Yellow Brick Road   Goodnight Kiss   Happiness Is A Warm Gun   Heaven's Cove   Hell's Kitchen   Hey You   Hollow Years   Hollow Years (demo Version)   Home   Home (edited Version)   Honor Thy Father   I Walk Beside You   II. Voices   III. The Silent Man   III. War Inside My Head   Illumination Theory   In Presence Of Enemies Pt. 2   In The Dead Of Night   In The Flesh   In The Name Of God   In The Presence Of Enemies Part 1   In the Presence of Enemies Part 2   In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 1   In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 2   In the Presence of Enemies Pt.1   In the Presence of Enemies Pt.2   In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 1   In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 2   Innocence Faded   Instrumedley   Invisible   IV. The Test That Stumped Them All   Just Let Me Breathe   Just Let Me Breathe (Live)   Learning To Live   Learning to Live (Live)   Led Zeppelin Medley: The Rover/Achilles Last Stand...   Lie   Lifting Shadows Off A Dream   Light Fuse and Get Away   Lines In The Sand   Lines In The Sun   Losing Faythe   Losing Time / Grand Finale   Losing Time/grand Finale   Lost Not Forgotten   March of the Tyrant   Mean Street   Medley: Metropolis   Metropolis   Metropolis - Part I   Metropolis - Part I 'The Miracle and the Sleeper'   Metropolis (Live)   Metropolis Part 1   Metropolis Pt. 1   Metropolis, Pt. 1 (Live)   Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle And The Sleeper   Ministry Of Lost Souls   Misunderstood   Moment of Betrayal   My Last Farewell   Never Enough   New Millenium   New Millennium   O Holy Night   On The Backs Of Angels   One Last Time   Only A Matter Of Time   Our New World   Outcry   Overture   Overture 1928   Panic Attack   Perfect Strangers   Perfect Strangers (Live)   Peruvian Skies   Peruvian Skies (Live)   Power Down   Prophets Of War   Pull Me Under   Puppies on Acid   Raise The Knife   Ravenskill   Raw Dog   Red Hill Mining Town   Regression   Repentance   Resurrection of Ernie   Rite Of Passage   Sacrificed Sons   Scarred   Scene Five: Through Her Eyes   Scene Four: Beyond This Life   Scene One: Regression   Scene Seven: II. 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