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When Dream and Day Unite

Dream Theater

℗ 1989 MCA Records 42259

Dream Theater • 1989 • When Dream and Day Unite

When Dream and Day Unite is the debut studio album by influential American progressive metal band Dream Theater. When Dream and Day Unite is composed mainly of material that originally surfaced during the band's early years as Majesty. The album was recorded during the summer of 1988 at Victory Studios in Gladwyne, Pennslyvania, and also is the only Dream Theater album to feature Charlie Dominici on vocals, as James LaBrie replaced Dominici as the lead vocalist on subsequent albums. Incidently When Dream and Day Unite and Falling into Infinity are the only Dream Theater albums not to contain their iconic font.

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A Fortune in Lies

(Petrucci — Myung — Moore — Portnoy — Dominici)

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

"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

Status Seeker

(Petrucci — Myung — Moore — Portnoy — Dominici)

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

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...

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

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?

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.

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.

Light Fuse and Get Away

(Petrucci — Myung — Moore — Portnoy — Dominici)

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

Afterlife

(Petrucci — Myung — Moore — Portnoy — Dominici)

I touched with one who made me run away from my own soul...
In this world with its many illusions
We are moving like mice through a maze
And now I find what's left behind has served to make me whole full of doubt, deception, and delusion seeking purpose to all earthly days

I search within beneath a skin that bears both pleasure and pain
In a world full of constant confusion
I will not be a par to the craze

In the Afterlife will dark be bright? will cold be warm? will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife? will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife.

Behind closed eyes some comfort lies
In knowing the truth never spoken
Through this world with its hidden conclusion we'll keep moving like mice through a maze

In the Afterlife will dark be bright? will cold be warm? will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife? will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife.

In the Afterlife will dark be bright? will cold be warm? will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife? will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife.

The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun

(Petrucci — Myung — Moore — Portnoy — Dominici)

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

Only a Matter of Time

(Petrucci — Myung — Moore — Portnoy — Dominici)

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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