When Dream And Day Unite

Track List

1.

A Fortune In Lies

2.

Status Seeker

3.

The Ytse Jam

4.

The Killing Hand

5.

Light Fuse And Get Away

6.

Afterlife

7.

The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun

8.

Only A Matter Of Time

When Dream And Day Unite (51:37)


First release by Dream Theater, featuring Charlie Dominici on vocals (1989). All songs are also available with James LaBrie on vocals (live) on the "When Dream And Day Reunite" CD, an official bootleg from Ytsejam Records.









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 A Fortune In Lies (05:13)
    - John Petrucci

 I can remember when,
 In the unity of our five-day sessions
 Not even once did we hear the siren song
 What kind of imagination
 Asleep in some lyrical coma
 Who's vain futile memory
 Could have been so wrong? 

    You can make a fortune in lies
    You can keep a giant alive
    You can ride the red
    Until everybody smiles

 A trifling euphoria
 was such an untimely religion
 maybe your life can explain
 the reason for my indecision
 Here is a poor man
 the heart of this monster creation
 He said we both will be heroes
 and I was led into temptation

    You can make a fortune in lies
    You can keep a giant alive
    You can ride the red
    Until everybody smiles

 Can you show me your gold
 and your silver?
 A hero in frozen water

(↓)Sample:
From a television prison documentary.
 "For the first time in a long time...
  everything was right in my world...
  and then I woke up..."

    Now you've made a fortune in lies
    and you kept a giant alive
    You rode the red
    You rode the red


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 Status Seeker (04:15)
    - Charlie Dominici and John Petrucci

 Heart sick at the sight of the
 Status Seeker
 In a sense I'm not beyond reproach
 the aspiration to drop a name
 When any rose might smell the same
 Maybe you'll figure it out someday
 'I want to know you now...
 You know I've always believed in you.'

 Nothing is sacred...
    You draw the bottom line
    with a dollar sign
 Change of opinion...
    At the drop of a dime
 Graceless intrusion...
    Are you sanctified in your judgment of me?
    All that I deserve is what you were unable to see

 In a garden where the seeds were spilled
 I favored the few that stood strong in the sun
 As I reached for the profit of my prize
 I found I had trampled the forgotten ones.

 Nothing is sacred...
    You draw the bottom line
    with a dollar sign
 Change of opinion...
    At the drop of a dime
 Graceless intrusion...
    Are you sanctified in your judgment of me?
    All that I deserve is what you were unable to see

 You're running in circles
 And I'm turning away
 You refused to believe
 Now I'm turning away

 Nothing is sacred...
    You draw the bottom line
    with a dollar sign
 Change of opinion...
    At the drop of a dime
 Graceless intrusion...
    Are you sanctified in your judgment of me?
    All that I deserve is what you were unable to see

 You're running in circles
 And I'm turning away
 You refused to believe
 Now I'm turning away


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The Ytse Jam (05:49)

   (instrumental)


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 The Killing Hand (08:43)
    - John Petrucci

 I.  The Observance
 An Angel's kiss now fallen
 Descending scarlet cuts the sky
 Faded names left on the wall
 Honor the fighting leave life to die
 Remembered is the sacrifice but
 No praisal of blood still flowing
 Who were the leaders?
 what controlled the Killing Hand
 that caused this mourning?
        Crossing over...

 II.  Ancient Renewal
 Lowered deep into the sea
 Being awaits to cleanse his soul
 senses weakening time is still
 Motionless by stiffening cold

 The wheels race back and
 Scorch his mind
 Traveling all to find the land
 Revelation warms a touch
 And now, he will begin to
 Understand

 III.  The Stray Seed
 Extended a view to yesterday
 Manifestation for none the same
 Walking amidst a frightening still
 No sound, no smoke, no scorching
 Flames
        He is risen...

 Sipping his poison the raven sings
 Yet another to add more bodies fallen
 King from below
 this one controls
 the Killing Hand that caused this mourning.
        Is it all over?
        Is it all over?

 IV.  Thorns
 Evil genius this secret plan
 Mercy dealt with the losing hand
 Will he ever fall?
 Can he end it all?
 Our savior must make his stand.

 Only a Prophet of years to come
 Wanting mortality I'm all alone
 He heard my voice
 It was my choice
 I've stopped the Killing Hand.

 V.  Exodus
 When I go back again
 Will it be the same?
 I've stopped the cries
 But now they know my name

 The sea is calling me
 my spirit must return
 As I get closer,
 was it really worth
 what I have learned?

 I'm in the valley
 And the saddened chimes I hear
 Race toward the wall to find
 one more name appears.

 No one is left now
 my one and only land
 I laugh at what I've done
 I am the Killing Hand.


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 Light Fuse and Get Away (07:23)
    - Kevin Moore

    Would you like to sit and talk to me
 about the way things change so
    suddenly
 when your senses come and the feeling goes?
    can you remember feeling much too close?

    Stop your hands from shaking
       Look at me
    Are your senses racing endlessly
       tracing
 past impressions?  So were mine
 Have you ever been used
 or will this be the first time?

    It's come so clear to me
    Light fuse and get away
       No gain, no pain
    It's a fatal game
    and the true lose everything

    I can see
    what trust and loyalty have done for me
    falling miles from the mark
    with a thirst for revenge
    and a dangerous heart

    I've tried to wash from memory
 feelings of betrayal and the incidents
 that plague me since I lost my sense
 of innocence

    A history of changes now I'm loving
 now I'm losing keeps me constantly
 in fear of hearing "I can't see where
 this is going"

    You lie alone with the memory
 feeling the ceiling and walls closing
    in on
       Your Conscience -- my ally
       the guilt -- your affliction
 from preying on praise as you fed
 an attention addiction

    Someone told me
 Light fuse and get away
    No gain, no pain
 and when it's lust to dust you can
 crawl from the wreckage

 I can see
 what trust and loyalty have done for me
 lying bleeding in the dark
 with a thirst for revenge
 and a dangerous heart

 It's come so clear to me
 Light fuse and get away
    No gain, no pain
 It's a fatal game
 and the true lose everything
 I can see
 what trust and loyalty have done for me
 falling miles from the mark
 with a thirst for revenge
 and a dangerous heart


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 The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun (08:04)
    - John Petrucci

 Watching my window I was led like a child
 As the roadway lamplights
 misguided my mind through the night
 a shadow of limits
 We were racing the rain
 my hands held the wheel
 My eyes tried to hold their place

    there must have been a time
    when I thought that you were watching
    It had to be when my senses lost control
    I thought I'd slipped away
    I thought I could still feel us moving
    It must have been a cloud
    no bigger than a man's hand

 Every reason I risk my life
 To come back to you
 Is locked behind your door
 You're my immunity
 Outside I watched you burn
 Heavy hearts were bleeding
 A cry for help, a familiar voice
 My melting hands streaked the glass

    As I walked away
    I wondered what had really happened
    had I run out of time
    did I push myself too far
    As my last step fell
    I felt my hands upon the wheel
    had I come back to life
    or did I ever leave at all
    In higher lives
    We seem to be
    always a moment too late
    We're past the time
    when we looked on
    Now we're
    THE ONES WHO HELP TO SET THE SUN
    this time for real
    I locked the door behind me
    My mind was still a wreck
    from what I saw
    For when my hands are still
    I'll recognize the message
    never again will my senses lose control
    In higher lives
    We seem to be
    Always a moment too late
    We're past the time
    when we looked on
    Now we're
    THE ONES WHO HELP TO SET THE SUN


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 Only A Matter Of Time (06:39)
    - Kevin Moore

 A suited man smiled said:
 'It's just a matter of time
 You can have the world at your feet by tomorrow
 just sign on this line.'
 Hold tight... limelight!
 Approaching the paramount
 with the sun in our eyes
 fearing family ties, legalies, compromise

 In a dimly lit room with a stool as his stage
 a dream-stricken prince of a pauper's descent
 haunts the eavesdropping silence
 that presses his window
 as he sweats a performance
 to an audience that ticks on the walls

 To the practical observer
 It's just a matter of time
    'You can deviate from the commonplace
    only to fall back in line.'
 I understand mine's a risky plan
 and your system can't miss
 But is security after all a cause
 or symptom of happiness?

 Brave, yet afraid, his eyes on horizon
 in a steady-set gaze
 a mariner soon from an open cocoon
 takes a moment to summon his courage
 to stifle his grave apprehension and
 trembling, approaches the surf
 A father's benediction as his hopeful son departs
 to brave the sea of rage and conquer at all costs

 lingers in his memory
 and visions still surviving in a logic-proof shell
 that should have been held sacred, safe and hidden well
 are compromised in usury
 with every rising sun that yields no sight of land
 the hesitation cultivates within the tired man
 and rumors spread of mutiny
 and though the time will come when dream and day unite
 tonight the only consolation causing him to fight
 is fearless faith in destiny

 Even when plan fall to pieces
 I can still find the courage
 with promise I've found in my faith

 Likely or not, it's a dream that we keep
 and at odds with our senses we'll climb
 But if faith is the answer, we've already reached it
 And if spirit's a sign
   then it's only a matter of time
   only a matter of time




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