SONGS OF DREAM THEATER

DREAM THEATER

Formasi:

James La Brie - Lead vocals, percussion (bergabung sejak 1991.

John Myung - Bass guitar, chapman stick (bergabung sejak 1985)

John Petrucci - Guitars, backing vocals (bergabung sejak 1985)

Mike Portnoy - Drums, percussion, backing vocals (bergabung sejak 1985)

Jordan Rudess - Keyboards, Continuum, Lap steel guitar (bergabung sejak 1999)


Dream Theater merupakan band metal progressif asal New York, Amerika Serikat yang dibentuk pada September 1985 oleh John Myung, John Petrucci dan Mike Portnoy, dengan nama Majesty. Kelak nama Majesty mereka rubah karena mendapat tuntutan secara hukum dari sebuah band asal Las Vegas bernama sama. Akhirnya atas usulan ayah Mike Portnoy, mereka menggunakan nama baru, Dream Theater, yang sejatinya adalah nama sebuah bioskop di Monterey, California.

Saat membentuk Majesty, ketiganya masih menjadi mahasiswa di Berklee College of Music. Namun karena lebih berat dalam kegiatan bermusik, akhirnya ketiganya Drop Out, dan fokus 100% dalam band. Sampai saat ini setelah 22 tahun berkarier, Myung, Petrucci, dan Portnoy, masih tetap dalam formasi Dream Theater, yang kini ditambah James La Brie dan Jordan Rudess. Namun sebelum kedatangan La Brie dan Rudess, formasi band ini secara bergantian sempat beranggotakan Chris Collins (lead vocal), Kevin Moore (Keyboard), Charlie Dominici dan Derek Sherinian.

Kemahiran para awak band in sebagai instrumentalis sudah sangat terkenal, sehingga mereka sering terlibat dalam proyek musik musisi terkenal lainnya. Beberapa penghargaan pun sempat dianugerahkan pada mereka, terutama bagi Jordan Rudess, John Petrucci dan Mike Portnoy.

Kontrak pertama mereka berlangsung 23 Juni tahun 1988 dengan Mechanic Records untuk meluncurkan debut album. Saat itu formasi mereka terdiri dari John Myung, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Charlie Dominici, dan Kevin Moore. Dalam album fenomenal mereka, Images and Words, Kevin James La Brie sudah masuk dalam formasi, yang direkrut sebagai vokalis pada Januari 1991, setelah ia meninggalkan band Glam metal Winter Rose di Canada. Setelah masuk Dream Theater, ia melepaskan nama depannya, Kevin, untuk menghindari kerancuan dengan nama Kevin Moore (keyboardist). Secara lengkap inilah 10 album yang telah mereka luncurkan: WHEN DREAM AND DAY UNITE (1989), IMAGES AND WORDS (1992), AWAKE (1994), FALLING INTO INFINITY (1997), METROPOLIS part 2:SCENES FROM A MEMORY (1999), SIX DEGREES OF INNER TURBULENCE (2002), TRAIN OF THOUGHT (2003), OCTAVARIUM (2005), SYSTEMATIC CHAOS (2007), BLACK CLOUDS an SILVER LININGS (2009). Selain itu mereka juga menerbitkan beberapa album live, yakni: Live at The Marquee, Once in A LIVETime, Live Scenes from New York, Live at Budokan, Score, dan Chaos and Motion 2007-2008. Album Images and Words yang memuat hits Pull Me Under dan Another Day, merupakan album yang berhasil mencapai penjualan tertinggi.

Another Day

Live another day, Climb a little higher
Find another reason to stay
Ashes in your hands, Mercy in your eyes
If you're searching for a silent sky...

You won't find it here, Look another way
You won't find it here, So die another day
The coldness of this words
The message in his silence,"Face the candle to the wind...
"This distance in my voice
Isn't leaving you a choice
So if you're looking for a time to run away...
You won't find it here, Look another way
You won't find it here So try another day
They took pictures of our dreams

Ran to hide behind the stairs
And said maybe when it's right for you, they'll fall
But if they don't come down
Resist the need to pull them in
And throw them away, Better to save the mystery
Than surrender to the secret

You won't find it here, Look another way
You won't find it hereSo try another day
(Written by Petrucci, taken from album Images and Words 1992)

PULL ME UNDER

Lost in the sky, Clouds roll by and I roll with them

Arrows fly, Seas increase and then fall again

This world is spinning around me, This world is spinning without me

Every day sends future to past

Every breath leaves one less to my last

Watch the sparrow falling, Gives new meaning to it all

If not today nor yet tomorrow then some other day

I'll take seven lives for one, And then my only father's son

As sure as I ever did love him I am not afraid

This world is spinning around me The whole world keeps spinning around me

All life is future to past

Every breath leaves me one less to my last

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 to set it right Dust fills my eyes

Clouds roll by and I roll with them

Centuries cry, Orders fly and I fall again

This world is spinning inside me The whole world is spinning inside of me

Every day sends future to past Every step brings me closer to my last

Pull me under Pull me under Pull me under I'm not afraid

Living my life too much in the sun

Only until your will is done

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 to set it right

Pull me under Pull me under Pull me under I'm not afraid

Living my life too much in the sun, Only until your will is done

'Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt.'

(Written by Kevin Moore, taken from album Images and Words 1992)

CAUGHT IN A WEB

Silence disguised I watch you

Show me the hurt that haunts you would you despise the thrill

If all you hide were mine?I can't hold on any longer

These feelings keep growing stronger

Echoes that deafen the mind will bury my voice in their wake

Caught in a Web, Removed from the world

Hanging on by a thread, Spinning the lies devised in my head

I've seen the path the one you take shows the truth for you to make

This turn of phrase we might not see is the thirst of desiref ound so easily

Try to push me 'round the world some more

And make me live in fear I bare all that I am made of now

Attractive I don't care'Cause even when I danced with life no one was there to share

Does this voice the wounds of your soul?Does this voice the wounds of your soul?

Caught in a Web Removed from the world

Hanging on by a thread, Spinning the lies devised in my head

Tried to live the life you live and saw

It doesn't work for meI bare all that I ammade of now

Attractive, I can't be Inside the Dance of Life is one

I'll never hold to me, You can't heal the wounds of my soul.

You can't heal the wounds of my soul.

Caught in a Web, Removed from the world

Hanging on by a thread, Spinning the lies devised in my head

Caught in a Web, Refused by the world

Hanging on by a thread Spinning a cage

Denied and misread

(taken from album AWAKE,written by James La Brie and John Petrucci)

Take The Time

Just let me catch my breath...
I've heard the promises, I've seen the mistakes
I've had my fair share of toughbreaks
I need a new voice, a new law,a 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
There is something that I feel
To be something that is real
I feel the heat within my mind, And craft new changes withmy eyes

Giving freely wandering promises
A place with decisions I'llfashion, I won't waste another breath
You can feel the waves coming on(It's time to take the time)
Let them destroy you or carry you on(It's time to 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
The unbroken spirit, Obscured and disquiet
Finds clearness this trial demands
And at the end of this day sighs an anxious relief
For the fortune lies still in his hands
If there's pensive fear, a wasted year
A man must learn to cope, If his obsession's real,
Suppression that he feels must turn to hope
Life is no more assuring than love(It's time to take the time)
There are no answers from voices above(It's time to take the time)
You're fighting the weight of the world
And no one can save you this time
Close your eyes, You can find all you need in your mind
I close my eyes, And feel the water rise aroundme
Drown the bead of time
Let my senses fall away I can see much clearer now,
I'm blind Find all you need in your mind
If you take the time