You can make a fortune in lies. You can keep a giant alive. You can ride the red until everybody smiles.
-Dream Theater, A Fortune in Lies

I want to know you now. You know I’ve always believed in you.
-Dream Theater, Status Seeker

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.
-Dream Theater, Status Seeker

Graceless intrusion- are you sanctified in your judgment of me? All that I deserve is what you were unable to see.
-Dream Theater, Status Seeker

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?
-Dream Theater, Afterlife

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.
-Dream Theater, The Ones Who Help to Set The Sun

Even when plan fall to pieces, I can still find the courage with promise I’ve found in my faith.
-Dream Theater, Only A Matter Of Time

This world is spinning around me. This world is spinning without me. And every day sends future to past. Every breath leaves one less to my last.
-Dream Theater, Pull Me Under

Pull me under, pull me under, pull me under I’m not afraid. All that I feel is honor and spite. All I can do is set it right.
-Dream Theater, Pull Me Under

Live another day. Climb a little higher. Find another reason to stay.
-Dream Theater, Another Day

Hold it now, wait a minute. Come on, just let me catch my breath. I’ve heard the promises, I’ve seen the mistakes.
I’ve had my fair share of tough breaks.
-Dream Theater, Take The Time

I need a new voice, new law, new way. Take the time, reevaluate. It’s time to pick up the pieces, go back to square one. I think it’s time for a change.
-Dream Theater, Take The Time

You’re fighting the weight of the world. But no one can save you this time. Close your eyes. You can find all you need in your mind.
–Dream Theater, Take The Time

Life is no more assuring than love. There are no answers from voices above.
-Dream Theater, Take The Time

Find all you need in your mind if you take the time.
-Dream Theater, Take The Time

I was told there’s a miracle for each day that I try. I was told there’s a new love that’s born for each one that has died. I was told there’d be no one to call on when I feel alone and afraid. I was told if you dream of the next world, you’ll find yourself swimming in a lake of fire.
-Dream Theatre, Metropolis – Part I ‘the Miracle & The Sleeper’

As a child, I thought I could live without pain, without sorrow. But as a man I’ve found it’s all caught up with me. I’m asleep yet I’m so afraid.
-Dream Theater, Metropolis – Part I ‘the Miracle & The Sleeper’

Love is the dance of eternity.
-Dream Theater, Metropolis – Part I ‘the Miracle & The Sleeper’

Tell me, remind me, chase the water racing from the sky. Always beside me- taste the memories running from my eyes.
-Dream Theater, Under A Glass Moon

Outside the soundness of your mind bathing your soul in silver tears beneath the blackened summer sky, praying for time to disappear.
-Dream Theater, Under A Glass Moon

God, give me the power to take breath from a breeze and call life from a cold metal frame.
-Dream Theater, Wait For Sleep

I look at the world and see no understanding. I’m waiting to find some sense of strength. I’m begging you from the bottom of my heart to show me understanding.
-Dream Theater, Learning To Live

I need to live life like some people never will. So find me kindness, find me beauty, find me truth. When temptation brings me to my knees and I lay here drained of strength, show me kindness, show me beauty, show me truth.
-Dream Theater, Learning To Live

The way your heart beats makes all the difference in learning to live.
-Dream Theater, Learning To Live

Here before me is my soul. I’m learning to live. I won’t give up till I’ve no more to give. I don’t wanna give.
-Dream Theater, Learning To Live

Oh, spread before you is your soul. So forever hold the dreams within our hearts. Through nature’s inflexible grace, I’m learning to live.
-Dream Theater, Learning To Live