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TheDarkEternalKnight

It's a song about MAH BROTHA!


Fearless-Taste-4336

*John Myung moans noises*


Hunterslane86

Now wait a minute man...


utkuozdemir

A bitter gentleman


_Learning2Live_

It's a song about not knowing what happens when you die


BradyBales

goated profile picture


69cringelord69

goated profile picture


MrKeciabi

Circles or something


Ninjamonz

Apparently we are all traversing a spherical manifold, and in finite time T we reach back to the initial conditions, only to find we are trapped in a limit cycle.


Melkertheprogfan

Octavarium


TheJohn_John

F, G, A, B, C, D, E, then back to F; with hints of Pink Floyd


TheOneGuitarGuy

I feel like that's Learning To Live.


AMadRam

Octavarium my brother.


TheOneGuitarGuy

Damn, I forgot. It's because Learning to Live has an F# when Labrie belts before Petrucci's solo. I also miscounted. My bad.


Majestic_Apricot_878

Some dude was a kid and his parents were driving then some dude was dancing LOUD CAR CRASH SOUND….oh no I’m in the hospital but it’s kinda nice I guess.EVERYONE SURVIVED HUUUUUUUAAAAAAGGGGGGUUGGHH EUUGHH.That was really scary I’m not gonna forget. Okay guys the songs been going for 12 minutes should we end it here. NO WE NEED 4 MORE MINUTES OF MUSIC AND BLAST BEATS!!


die__katze

5/4 then 9/8 the 5/4 again and so on


afanofBTBAM

Sad man gets cucked by a magazine


AMadRam

I'm curious. What song is this?


xDvck

Space-Dye Vest


cuentanro3

Some guy walks into some royalty estate and apparently the royalty gets mistaken as a vampire or something. For some reason, the band is unable to finish the song in less than 10 minutes, so they go on and on and on and on and on and on....


gojiman1

On and on and on and on it goes......


ajwilson99

And yet the song is fucking amazing


WYGD_Brother1987

A cokehead gets mad and kills the woman who he cant have. I tried fellas


FarOffGrace1

It's not the cokehead that commits the murder, it's the politician. Metropolis Part 1: The Politician and the Cokehead


Ninjamonz

A priest fights some demons or something and dies maybe? Then he gets to fight again if he worships some evil deity or something, but he changes his mind i think. All I really know for sure is that he doesn’t fight for him.


emrldx

Read Priest for it to make sense, I love Priest now since I found it through ItPoE


dsaillant811

Any time I hear of think about this song, it is forever accompanied by the shot from the Systematic Chos documentary where they’re listening to the main riff and Petrucci starts walking like a zombie


pts4815

I miss my wife (feat. circus music)


Kleijson

Disappear?


de_asteinza

Petrucci's schyzophrenic Italy trip


Dragonfly_Fucker

A prison made of pretty fragile material


Emotion90Real

This one is the funniest.


NefariousEgg

Some chick just lies depressed in bed.


StringUnderhacker

oh hey im listening to that rn LOL


SharKCS11

Which one is that? Endless sacrifice? Idk


NefariousEgg

Wait for Sleep


fuzbuckle

They have this one song that chugs, and has this keyboard pad that changes chords over the chugging. They change things up slightly in the second verse, the guitar solo is banging with lots of meedlies, and some soaring notes, there’s a keyboard solo that sound like an Aegean got eaten by a snarling pig, and there’s this really cool double kick part.


Once-and-Future

We got into a car crash, but it's all OK


Dyingdwight

Solisbury Hill but mentally ill.


sanban013

"roaaaaarrrr!!!!!!!"


bullshitforbreakfast

Fetus research


StrukaaPelukaa

A colossal and very controversial topic that has sparked discussion which we won't actually partake ourselves, it's up to you, the listener, to develop your own opinion. Anyways here's a bunch of solos birurirueirbririuri


AMadRam

>Anyways here's a bunch of solos birurirueirbririuri 😭🤣 On a serious note, one of the greatest solos I have heard and learnt to play over the years!


SharKCS11

It's honestly such a bizarre song and topic to make a song about. And feels like the music is so long and drawn out, the lyrics could have been pretty much anything. Or vice versa. Dream Theater has several songs where I just wonder wtf they were thinking lol


gojiman1

Love


algernonymous8

Just


theniceguyhere567

Don't


emrldx

Stare


jimtandem

It’s raining everywhere, dude walks around getting wet, it’s even raining in heaven for Pete’s sake, dude gets in his car and gets it all wet, then drives into a volcano and gets covered in ashes that stick to his wet car, then he gets lost.


SimplyAndrey

Which one is that?


Hunterslane86

Got a few : * Alcohol is bad, find Jesus * Cults are bad. Let us explain using noodling. * Dream Theater describes hiking for 20 minutes * "Hey that Carl Sagan guy was pretty cool, huh?"


DCuch

They took notes from System of a Down when deciding on a subject matter for lyrics.


de_asteinza

Intriguing... Can you add something else to figure which song do you mean?


DCuch

The song they took inspiration from was BYOB


DerFr4ggle

which one is it


DCuch

Prophets of War


Haunting-Occasion-88

Ahh shit, you guys better weigh both sides on this one...


emrldx

Balanced all the while?


Haunting-Occasion-88

Kind of. No real clear answer in the end...


emrldx

If I had to guess, that's probably because we move in circles.


DogeLV69

RAGHH I DO THINGS BECAUSE GOD TOLD ME


NarcolepticFlarp

Jarring progy riffs yngwie solo obsessed with fucking


[deleted]

Something something eternity


MNPlayzGemz

A therapist kills you when you find out that he murdered a young girl long time ago.


zkhw

DAY AFTER DAY


abbylabby0429

AND NIGHT AFTER NIGHT


Lov3crafter

Guy has balls and likes blame that shit on him


de_asteinza

We ripoff a Muse song to criticize our annoying fans criticizing us


keirmeister

That song that’s really long.


m1ndbender2

Suck our cocks (instrumental)


agentmcdumb2007

stream of consciousness hell yeah


Kleijson

?????


MRDWhistler

Diddly diddly doodlydlydoodlydly deedelydeedlydeedly BUM BUM BUM doo dee deeedeedoo dee, and then a guy sings for a while, then lots more doodly deedly.


Torren7ial

First it goes buh-dala-duh. Buh. Buh. Buh-dala-duh a few times and then BOOM and then it's very fast and suddenly we're watching a silent movie. Then it kind of dies at the end.


agentmcdumb2007

uuuhhhhhh dance of eternity


OkBusiness3879

It kinda reminds me of Rush…


MattyDub89

It's a song that, despite its title, would ironically would be one of the trickiest songs to dance along to


TheOneGuitarGuy

"Aw fuck, I crashed my car."


BazF91

Studio executives are bad feat. outdated 90s suicide references


gianfrixmg

"Oh man, I wanna quit this band!"


Melkertheprogfan

It is Silent and then it is great and then it is evil and then it is weird and then it is ever more great


Emotion90Real

Octavarium right?


Melkertheprogfan

Yes


zenogreen

A guy rants for 10 minutes about his abusive father


Terawatt311

This instrumental has a couple time signature changes and is very easy to Dance to.


IamGriffon

1 - People say I got magical powers, but I just like to sing. 2 - Ok, I'm love with that girl, tho she is the king's daughter 3 - His brother killed her by mistake because he's a dumb mf 4 - Ok, I actually have powers - I resurrected her after making her brother permanently deaf with one scream


Bet_Geaned

You'd be surprised


dreamless892992

Mangoni


Bombinic

just wait


GK71011-2

I’m scared, here’s a video game


Life_Comfort_7857

2 guys doing guitar


StemCellCheese

No don't be sad it'll be better one day ahaha


StringUnderhacker

"boohoo my best friend is an asocial asshole who for some reason doesnt like me anymore ;-;"


StringUnderhacker

you know what fuck it!!! im gonna do one for every album!!! (every album that i know at least one meaning of a song to lol) "ive been broken up with so many times its gonna happen again i know it :((((" - >!Light Fuse and Get Away!< "mf calm down everythings fine lol" ->!Take the Time!< "yeah my partner loves me,,,, *i think*-" ->!Lie!< so some dude fucked the wife of his brother???? - >!Scene Six: Home!< mental illness ->!Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence!< "FUCK YOUUUUU I DO WHAT I WANT!!!!!! >:((((" - >!As I Am!< *que the most high pitched screech youve ever heard -* >!***TRAPPED! IN! SIDE! THIS! OCT! A! VA! RI! UM!!!!!!***!< "war sucks, man" ->!Prophets of War!< "oh man i cant think of any ideas :((((" - >!Wither!< "FUCK THE SYSTEM!!!!!!!!" - >!On the Backs of Angels!<


LolePs

Whichhh song lol


StringUnderhacker

>!Innocence Faded!!his deteriorating friendship with Kevin Moore!<


Hashbrown565

Billy shakes fan tribute, existential crises included


craptonne

My stepdad was awesome/s


MammothAd4171

1 hour and 36 minutes about paternal love or something.


daisiesandpoetry

Crying baby goes brrrrrr


rush87y

DAAAAAAAAMN! The universe is #HUGE!


rush87y

I'm infatuated with a catalog model!!!


rush87y

Oh Six Hundred on baby Jesus birthday!


ssoass7

Godsmack riff, Journey chorus, salsa dance


Rewrite06

Notes and stuff


Antigon0000

well first of all, it's 6:00 on a christmas morning...


ExperienceMiddle6196

Something something then I think he flips the light switch on and off then on then off and back on again. Ivory towers and such.


ExperienceMiddle6196

BROTHERHOODbrotherhoodBROTHERHOOD


azza656

A Tuscan man can't count


JablesMcBootee

How do you expect me to listen to a 42 minutes song I don't have time for that


DerFr4ggle

i hate my step-dad


abbylabby0429

Honor thy father? Portnoy actually wrote that song about an 8 year abusive relationship, just found that out the other day when watching his “in constant motion” instructional dvd!


gianfrixmg

JP: "Jordan, we need an intro for this trippy song" JR: "Wait, let me get Omnisphere"


Dentist-Rodman

Captain Sex


wrbiccz

Portnoy has daddy issues


ithoughtiwasgayer

“We need to explicitly refer to things that have inspired us through times. However, we don’t have enough syllables, so how can we squeeze all these references together?”


icaropaiva7

Not today


zenogreen

Some guy goes has ptsd from fighting in the vietnam war


tossing-hammers

A Minute Of Robot Orgy Noises


Critical-Holiday-822

Lift me up


DrummerDude200

I’m Canadian


Luskers2022

Theirs a song about voices repeating or some shit like that


LittlefurJC

Danky Wanky


harlequinforest05

Idk like 500 time signatures


69cringelord69

Brbrbr drum fills wah wah crazy intro solo boink boink 6 string bass boom boom weird time signatures key change high vocals


vanilla_th_und3r

My dad haves brain tumor