I happened to listen to this song recently. In the end of the song there is an unspoken passage called ‘ The Twelve Promises” . The passage goes like this:
“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development
- We will be amazed before we are half way through
- We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness
- We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it
- We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace
- No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others
- That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear
- We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
- Self-seeking will slip away
- Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
- Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
- We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us
- We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves”
The song ends with the following lines:
“You’re only as sick as your secrets
But the truth will set you free
The truth is the truth
And all you can do is live with it’
I believe that Dream Theatre deserves an applause for this one.
Cheers!!
