The Count of Tuscany
Dream Theater

Several years ago
In a foreign town
Far away from home
I met the Count of Tuscany

A young eccentric man
Bred from royal blood
Took me for a ride
Across the open countryside

Get into my car
Let's go for drive
I love the way I feel uptight
Just step inside

Maybe you'll recall
I kind of felt curious
A character inspired by my brother's life

Winding through the hills
Seeing far behind
On and on we drove
Down narrow streets and dusty roads

And last we came upon
A picturesque estate
On sprawling emerald hills
An ancient world of times gone by

Now let me introduce
My brother
A bitter gentleman - historian
Sucking on his pipe
Distinguished accent
Making me uptight - no accident

I
Want to stay alive
Everything about this place just doesn't feel right

I
I don't wanna die
Suddenly I'm frightened for my life

I
Want to say goodbye
This could be the last time you see me alive

I
I may not survive
Knew it from the moment we arrived

Would you like to see
Our secret holy place?
I come here late at night
To pray to him by candle light

Then viewing through the past
I saw which is believed
Still dressed in royal clothes
A saint behind the altar

History recalls
During times of war
Legend has been traced
Stuck inside these castle walls

Soldiers came to hide
With barrels filled with wine
Never to escape
These tombs of old that's where they died

Down the cellar stairs
I disappear
Like the angel's share
The end is near

Come and have a taste
A rare vintage
All the finest wines
Improve with age

I
Want to stay alive
Everything about this place just doesn't feel right

I
I don't wanna die
Suddenly I'm frightened for my life

I
Want to say goodbye
This could be the last time you see me alive

I
I may not survive
Knew it from the moment we arrived

Could this be the end?
Is this the way I die?
Sitting here alone
No one by my side

I don't understand
I don't feel that I deserve this
What did I do wrong?
I just don't understand

Give me one more chance
Let me please explain
It's all been circumstance
I'll tell you once again

It took me for a ride
Promising a vast adventure
Next thing that I know
I'm frightened for my life

Now wait a minute then
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am

Please don't be afraid
I would never try to hurt you
This is how we live
Strange although it seems
Please try to forgive

The chapel and the Sade
The soldiers in the wine
The fables and the tales
All handed down through time

Of course you're free to go
Go and tell the world my story
Tell about my brother
Tell them about me
The Count of Tuscany


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  6: 00   6:00   A Better Life   A Change Of Seasons   A Change Of Seasons (Original Live Version )   A Change Of Seasons II: Innocence   A Change of Seasons II: Innocence (Live)   A Change Of Seasons VII: The Crimson Sunset   A Change of Seasons VII: The Crimson Sunset (Live)   A Fortune In Lies   A Mind Beside Itself   A Mind Beside Itself: III. 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   Octavarium   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. One Last Time   Scene Three: I. Through My Words   Scene Two: II. Strange Deja Vu   Shattered Fortress   Since I've Been Loving You   Since I've Been Loving You   Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence   Six O'Clock   Solitary Shell   Sorrounded   Space-Dye Vest   Speak To Me   Status Seeker   Strange Deja Vu   Stream of Consciousness   Surrender To Reason   Surrounded   Take Away My Pain   Take Away My Pain (alternate   Take Away My Pain (Live)   Take The Time   Take Your Fingers From My Hair   Tears   Tenement Funster/Flick Of The Wrist/Lily Of The Va...   The 3 Silent Man   The Answer   The Answer Lies Within   The Best of Times   The Big Medley   The Bigger Picture   The Crimson Sunset   The Dance of Eternity   The Dark Eternal Night   The Enemy Inside   The Gift Of Music   The Glass Prison   The Great Debate   The Hovering Sojourn   The Killing Hand   The Looking Glass   The Ministry Of Lost Souls   The Minsitry Of Lost Souls   The Mirror   The Mirror (Live)   The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun   The Path That Divides   The Road to Revolution   The Root of All Evil   The Rover , Achilles Last Stand , The Song Remains   The Rover / Achilles Last Stand / The Song Remains   The Rover / Achilles Last Stand / The Song Remains...   The School Song   The Shaman’s Trance   The Shattered Fortress   The Silent Man   The Spirit Carried On   The Spirit Carries On   The Spirit Carries On (Live)   The Test That Stumped Them All   The Walking Shadow   The Way It Used To Be   The X Aspect   The Ytse Jam   These Walls   This Dying Soul   This Is The Life   Three Days   Through Her Eyes   Through My Words   To Live Forever   To Tame A Land   Trial Of Tears   Two Far   Under A Glass Moon   Vacant   VII. About To Crash (Reprise)   VIII. Losing Time - Grand Finale   Vital Star   Voices   Wait For Sleep   Wanted Dead Or Alive   War Inside My Head   When Your Time Has Come   Where Are You Now   Whispers On the Wind   Winter   Wither   You Not Me   You Or Me   Your Majesty

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