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PRAY lyrics (click to download)

Ohh Ohh Ohh .. and I pray
I just cant sleep tonight.
Knowing that things aint right.
Its in the papers, its on the tv, its everywhere that I go.
Children are crying.
Soldiers are dying
Some people don't have a home
But I know there's sunshine behind that rain
I know there's good times behind that pain, hey
Can you tell me how I can make a change
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray

I lose my appetite, knowing kids starve tonight.
And when I sit up, cause my dinner is still on my plate.
Ooo I got a vision, to make a difference.
And its starting today.

Cause I know there's sunshine behind that rain
I know there's good times behind that pain, hey

Haven`t tell me how I can make a change
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day

I close my eyes and pray
For the broken-hearted.
I pray for the life not started
I pray for all the ones not breathing.
I pray for all the souls in need.
I pray. Can you give em one today.
I just cant sleep tonight
Can someone tell how to make a change?

I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and I pray

I pray ...

I close my eyes and pray ...

 
My Worlds Acoustic
"Baby", the lead single from the second half of his debut album, which features Ludacris, was released in January 2010 and became his biggest hit thus far, charting at number five in the U.S. and reaching the top ten in seven other countries. Two digital singles, "Never Let You Go", and "U Smile" were top thirty hits on the U.S. Hot 100, and top twenty hits in Canada. According to review aggregator Metacritic, the album has received "generally favorable reviews". It debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, making Bieber the youngest solo male act to top the chart since Stevie Wonder in 1963. My World 2.0 also debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, Irish Albums Chart, and Australian Albums Chart, and the New Zealand Albums Chart and reached the top ten of fifteen other countries. To promote the album, Bieber appeared on several live programs including The View, the 2010 Kids Choice Awards, Nightline, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Dome and 106 and Park. On April 10, 2010, Bieber was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. On July 4, 2010, Bieber performed at the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular in New York City. The second single from My World 2.0, "Somebody to Love", was released in April 2010, and a remix was released featuring Bieber's mentor Usher. In June 2010, it reached 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bieber performing at the Conseco Fieldhouse, in August 2010
On June 23, 2010, Bieber went on his first official headlining tour, starting in Hartford, Connecticut, to promote My World and My World 2.0. In July 2010, it was reported that Bieber was the most searched for celebrity on the Internet. That same month his music video, "Baby", surpassed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" to become the most viewed YouTube video ever. In September 2010, it was reported that Bieber accounted for three percent of all traffic on Twitter, according to an employee of the social-networking site.
Bieber began recording his second album in July 2010 in New York City. At this point, because of puberty, his voice was deeper than it was when he recorded his first album. In April 2010, the singer discussing his vocals remarked, "It cracks. Like every teenage boy, I'm dealing with it and I have the best vocal coach in the world. [...] Some of the notes I hit on "Baby" I can't hit anymore. We have to lower the key when I sing live." British singer/songwriter Taio Cruz confirmed in July 2010 that he is writing songs for Bieber's next album. Hip hop producer Dr. Dre produced two songs with Bieber in July 2010 but it is unknown if they were made for the album, which is currently due for a 2011 release.
Bieber guest-starred in the season premiere of the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, aired on September 23, 2010. He played a "troubled teen who is faced with a difficult decision regarding his only brother." Bieber will continue to appear in later episodes of the season as his character's story progresses. Bieber will also star in a 3-D film about himself directed by Step Up 3D director Jon Chu and scheduled for a February 2011 release.
 Bieber performed a medley of "U Smile", "Baby," and "Somebody to Love" and briefly played the drums at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010.
Bieber announced in October 2010 that he would release an acoustic album, called My Worlds Acoustic. It will be released on Black Friday in the United States and featured acoustic versions of songs from his previous albums, as well as completely new song called "Pray".
On November 28, 2010 Bieber performed live on the X Factor, a musical talent show in London and received a rapturous standing ovation from the judges which comprised of Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole and the audience.

Download the songs below :
  1. One Time Acoustic
  2. Baby Acoustic
  3. One Less Lonely Girl Acoustic
  4. Down To Earth
  5. You Smile Acoustic
  6. Favorite Girl Acoustic
  7. That Should Be Me Acoustic
  8. Never Say Never Acoustic
  9. Pray
  10. Somebody to Love Ft. Usher 
  11. Never Say Never Ft. Jaden Smith


When Dream and Day Unite is the debut studio album by influential American progressive metal band Dream Theater. The album is composed mainly of material that originally surfaced during the band's early years as Majesty. It was recorded during the summer of 1988 at Victory Studios in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, and is the only Dream Theater album to feature Charlie Dominici on vocals, as James LaBrie replaced Dominici as the lead vocalist on subsequent albums. It is also one of only two Dream Theater albums not to display their iconic font on the cover along with their 1997 album Falling Into Infinity. It is the only Dream Theater album not to feature a track lasting longer than 10 minutes.
  • Charlie Dominici – vocals
  • Kevin Moore – keyboards
  • John Myung – bass
  • John Petrucci – guitars
  • Mike Portnoy – drums
Track Listing :
  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 Helps to Set The Sun
  8. Only a Matter of Time

WESTLIFE - When You're Looking Like That download



She's a 5 foot 10 in catsuit and bambi eyes
Everybody's who's staring wouldn't believe that this girl was mine
I should have know I was wrong
When I left her for a life in pity
But they say you never miss the water until it's gone

Guess I failed to love you
And you're taking it out tonight

[Chorus:]
How am I supposed to leave you now
When you're looking like that?
I can't believe what I just gave away
Now I can't take it back
I don't wanna get lost
I don't wanna live my life without you
How am I supposed to leave you now
When you're looking like that?

She's all dressed up for glamour and rock and roll
Wanna squeeze her real tight get out of this place
If only I could take control

But she is out of my reach forever
And just a week ago she lied next to me
It's so ironic how I had to lose just
To see that I failed to love you
And you're taking it out tonight

[Chorus]

I don't wanna forget you
I don't even wanna try
How am I supposed to walk on by when you're looking like that?

[Chorus x3]

Written In The Stars download

Shane:
Stay with me
Don't fall asleep too soon
The angels can wait for a moment

Come real close
Forget the world outside
Tonight we're alone
It's finally you and I

It wasn't meant to feel like this
Not without you

All:
Cos when I look at my life
How the pieces fall into place
It just wouldn't rhyme without you
When I see how my path
Seem to end up before your face
The state of my heart
The place where we are
Was written in the stars

Bryan:
Don''t be afraid
I''ll be right by your side
Through the laughter and pain
Together we're bound to fly

I wasn't meant to love like this
Not without you

All:
Cos when I look at my life
How the pieces fall into place
It just wouldn't rhyme without you
When I see how my path
Seem to end up before your face
The state of my heart
The place where we are
Was written in the stars

Mark:
I made a few mistakes, yeah
Shane:
Like sometimes we do
Mark:
Been through lot of heartache
But I made it back to you

All:
Cos when I look at my life
How the pieces fall into place
It just wouldn't rhyme without you
And when I see how my path
Seem to end up before your face
The state of my heart
The place where we are
Was written in the stars

All:
When I look at my life
How the pieces fall into place
It just wouldn't rhyme without you
When I see how my path
Seem to end up before your face
The state of my heart
The place where we are
Was written in the stars

Shane:
The state of my heart
The place where we are
Was written in the stars

Where We Are 2009

Where We Are is the tenth album from Irish pop band Westlife. It was released on 27 November 2009 in Ireland and 30 November 2009 in the UK through Syco Music. The first and lone single from this album is "What About Now" and was released on 23 October 2009 as a digital download a day later as a CD single.


Where We Are

Stay where you are
Don’t let me go, don’t let me go
We made it this far
Oh baby stop, stop right there
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away
Into thin air
We survived a crash
Made it through the wreckage
Standing here at last
So perfectly written

Chorus:
Now where we are
Is where we’re suppose to be
Where we are
Keeps the breath in me
Where we’ve been
We’ve risen from the deep
Where we’re now no one can tear us apart
That’s where we are

Don’t, don’t turn around
We gotta let, we got to let
Go of the past now
Feel me by your side
We’re out of danger
No reason to hide
We survived the storm
Made it through the hurricane
Standing here at last
Dry despite the rain

Chorus
Now where we are
Is where we’re suppose to be
Where we are
Keeps the breath in me
Where we’ve been
We’ve risen from the deep
Where we’re now no one can tear us apart
That’s where we are

That’s where we are
Stay, stay where you are

Chorus
Now where we are
Is where we’re suppose to be
Where we are
Keeps the breath in me
Where we’ve been
We’ve risen from the deep
Where we’re now no one can tear us apart
That’s where we are

That’s where we are


The Songs are :
  1. What About Now
  2. How to Break Heart
  3. Leaving
  4. Shadows
  5. Talk Me Down
  6. Where We Are
  7. The Difference
  8. As Love is My Witness 
  9. Another World 
  10. No More Heroes 
  11. Sound of a Broken Heart 
  12. Reach Out 
  13. I'll See You Again 

Westlife

view them : 
  1. What Makes a Man
  2. We Are One
  3. Soledad
  4. Try Again
  5. When You Tell Me That You Love Me
  6. Fool Again
  7. My Love
  8. Angels Wings
  9. Puzzle of My Heart
  10. Seasons in The Sun
  11. If I Let You Go
  12. Swear it Again
  13. Pictures in My Head
  14. I Lay My Love on You
  15. I don't Wanna Fight

Westlife is an Irish pop group formed on 3 July 1998. The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Brian McFadden (departed from the band in 2004). The group is the only act in British or Irish history to have their first seven singles go straight to Number 1, and they have gone on to sell over 44 million records worldwide which includes their studio, single, video, and compilation albums. Despite the group's worldwide success, they've only had one U.S. hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts: "Swear It Again," which made it to #20 in 2000.

Westlife were originally signed by Simon Cowell and are currently managed by Louis Walsh. They garnered 14 number one singles in the United Kingdom, the third-highest in UK history, tying with Cliff Richard and trailing behind only Elvis Presley and The Beatles. The group has also broken a few top records, including "Music artist with most consecutive number 1's in the UK". It was officially announced by the Official Charts Company that they are the "2nd biggest selling artist" (trailing behind Robbie Williams) and "Biggest selling band of the decade" (beating Coldplay) in UK with 11 million album sales.

On 1 June 2008, Westlife marked their 10th anniversary with a concert in Croke Park, Dublin which saw more than 83,000 fans attending the special occasion. Music Week revealed on their website that Westlife is the official third top touring act within the years 2005–2008, while they were 7th top touring act of 2008. Also in 2008, they were declared as Ireland's ninth-richest celebrities under 30 years old and 13th in general with 36 million euros as a group. In 2009, they dropped as 16th richest Irish with estimated 8 million euros each.

Awake is the third studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on October 4, 1994 by East West Records. It was the last Dream Theater album to feature keyboardist Kevin Moore, who announced his decision to leave the band during the recording of the album.

Much of the material for Awake was written in writing sessions between February and April 1994. Dream Theater were under pressure from their record label to produce an album as successful as Images and Words with a single similar to "Pull Me Under". The label wanted the band to produce a more metal-influenced album, which they thought would be easier to market. John Purdell and Duane Baron produced, engineered and mixed the album. The album's cover, designed by the band, features numerous references to the album's lyrics.

Dream Theater auditioned for keyboardists to replace Moore for the upcoming world tour and eventually hired Derek Sherinian. He had just two weeks to learn two hours of complex music before the tour started. Sherinian initially took up the position on a trial basis and was asked to become a full member during the tour. After the first leg of the tour, vocalist James LaBrie suffered a violent case of food poisoning, severely damaging his vocal chords. His singing became unpredictable, leading LaBrie to become depressed for much of the tour. His voice only started recovering on the tour for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence in 2002. The band were touring in Japan when the Great Hanshin earthquake hit.

Released at the height of the popularity of grunge music, Awake received mixed reviews; more recent reviews regard the album as one of the band's finest. The album peaked at 32 on the US Billboard 200, the highest position a Dream Theater album would reach on that chart until 2007's Systematic Chaos. "Lie", "Caught in a Web" and "The Silent Man" were released as singles but failed to be as successful as "Pull Me Under" had been. The band's record label considered the album a commercial failure, which would lead to the band being pressured to write more radio-friendly songs on their next studio album, Falling into Infinity.

Songs

The album's opening track, "6:00", features lyrics written by Moore, hinting at the growing distance between him and the rest of the band. Petrucci wrote the lyrics of "Innocence Faded", inspired by his deteriorating friendship with Moore. "The way I wrote lyrics a lot of the time is that I'll take an initial spark of an idea... But then I'll kind of generalize and add in other situations," Petrucci said. "So I couldn't say it was solely about that, but it was definitely inspired by that. There was a feeling of it not being the same way it had been, and the realization that things were not always going to remain the same."
"Erotomania", "Voices" and "The Silent Man" form a three-part suite title "A Mind Beside Itself". Portnoy stated that the instrumental "Erotomania" was written "off the cuff" as "a bit of a joke and parody". Petrucci penned the lyrics to "Voices", dealing with the subject of mental illness. He researched schizophrenia and similar disorders and used religious terms "to make things more vivid". "When I was writing it, I saw these terms and medical things that were just brilliant," he said. "Like there was a guy who felt that his skin was inside out. I read that and was like 'Oh my God! That's unbelievable; I've got to write about that.'" Petrucci wrote the music and lyrics to the acoustic "The Silent Man". LaBrie described the lyrics as dealing with "communication breakdown, for instance between a father and a son. We feel that we have to play certain roles when around one of our parents, and we never really get to know the real person. I'm lucky that I behave with my own father like I would a friend. We can joke around and go for a beer."
Portnoy wrote the lyrics to "The Mirror", describing his battle with alcoholism. He would return to the subject on later Dream Theater albums with his Twelve-step Suite. "Lie" was originally part of "The Mirror", but LaBrie thought it was strong enough to be a song in itself. "I remember one of the first tapes [the band] sent me to start jamming with up in Canada was 'The Mirror'," LaBrie said. "We used to jam instrumentally to it on the last tour and then we built it into a song, with the lyrics and melodies but also within the song was 'Lie'. I heard this groove and I was going 'Oh my God, that's a song in itself!' So I called up the guys and said 'Man, I really feel strong about this song. Can't we take that groove and build a song?'"
"Lifting Shadows off a Dream" began as a poem and two chords brought to the band by Myung. "We worked on it, racked our brains, recorded the jam and by the end of the night we were like 'Ahh fuck it. This sucks,'" Petrucci recalled. "We came by the next day, listened to the recording and thought it could be really cool. All of a sudden it evolved into this song."
"Space-Dye Vest" was written by Moore, who brought the piece into the studio as a completed song. "Kevin Moore saw this photograph in a fashion magazine of a beautiful model wearing a space-dye vest and he fell in love with her," LaBrie said. "He carried that magazine around with him for ages, but he realized that the only way the innocence could be kept, so that he could retain that love for her, was if she stayed on the page. If he'd met her, all that would have been lost." Portnoy recalled that when the rest of the band first heard the song "we thought it was so very, very different we didn't think we even wanted to fuck with it." He said that if they had known Moore was going to leave the band, they would not have included it on the album. Portnoy considered "Space-Dye Vest" "totally 100% [Moore's] song", and for that reason the band would never play the song live without Moore.

taken from : wikipedia

Track Listing :
  1. 6:00
  2. Caught in a Web
  3. Innocence Faded
  4. A Mind Besides Itself 1 : Erotomania
  5. A Mind Besides Itself 2 : Voices
  6. A Mind Besides Itself 3 : The Silent Man
  7. The Mirror
  8. Lie
  9. Lifting Shadows Off a Dream
  10. Scarred 
  11. Space-Dye Vest





Dream Theater is one of the most prominent progressive metal group in the world today. Founded by Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and John Myung, they have released eight studio albums, four live recordings and one short album (EP). Their first album, When Dream And Day Unite recorded with Charlie Dominici on vocals and keyboards Kevin Moore as a player. Dominici was much older than the other members and wanted to play other music, so he was then out of the group. They then search for the ideal replacement for 2 years until finally met with James LaBrie, lead singer of Canada through the audition.
Together they recorded LaBrie Images And Words that catapulted their name into the international ranks with the hit "Pull Me Under" and "Another Day". Awake is their last album with Moore who was later replaced by Derek Sherinian for the album Falling Into Infinity. In the end Sherinian also replaced by Jordan Rudess and this formation still persist until the end of 2010. Because Mike Portny whose real name is Michael Stephen Portnoy has decided to exit from Dream Theater. They have launched a concept album Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory and a double album Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. In 2003 they decided to record a non-concept album Train Of Thought is very influenced by thrash metal groups like Metallica.
Their latest album titled Octavarium issued on June 7, 2005 and in addition is the eighth studio album also contains eight songs.
After the Dream Theater released their album Live in the 20th anniversary of Dream Theater was formed, entitled score recorded on April 1, 2006 at Radio City Music Hall, U.S.. They again preparing to launch their ninth album with new record label brought flag that is Roadrunner Records, they have completed the Systematic Chaos album that contains 8 songs and was launched on June 5, 2007 in the U.S.

Dream Theater history

Dream Theater was formed in September 1985, when guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung decided to form a band to fill their spare time while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston. They then found a drummer, Mike Portnoy, in one of the rehearsal rooms at Berklee, and after two days of negotiations, they managed to invite Mike Portnoy to join. After that, they all want to fill the two vacant places in the band, and Petrucci asked his friend the band, Kevin Moore, to be a keyboard player. He agreed, and when Chris Collins were invited to be a vocalist, the band was complete.
With five members, they decided to name the band by the name Majesty. According to the documentation DVD Score, five of them were lined up tickets for the Rush concert at the Berklee Performance Center while listening to Rush with a boom box. Portnoy and said that the ending of the song (Bastille Day) sounded very "Majestic". That's when they decided Majesty is a good name for a band, and remained good until now.
At the time - time, Portnoy, Petrucci and Myung is still struggling with their studies, also by working part time and teaching. Their schedules become tight tips so they must decide between pursuing a career in music or terminate the band Majesty. But eventually Majesty win and the three of them came out of Berklee to concentrate on her musical career. Petrucci comment about this in the documentation DVD Score, said that while it is very difficult to ask their parents to go to music school. And more difficult to convince her parents that she should drop out of school.
Moore is finally out of school, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate with the band.

Songwriting Technique
Several unique songwriting techniques have been performed by Dream Theater, which mostly occurred in the period - the present, when they can experiment with their own record label.
Starting with the Train of Thought, Dream Theater have started inserting elements - small and hidden elements in their music, and includes these elements to the more fanatical enthusiasts. Characteristics of the most famous (the so-called "nugget") hidden in the "In The Name of God", which is a morse code of "eat my ass and balls" (eat my ass and my cock), which is the word - the famous words of Mike Portnoy . Since then, many enthusiasts - enthusiasts Dream Theater began trying to find things - little things that usually do not appeal to ordinary enthusiasts.
Some of them are well-known techniques include:

    
* Voice of the phonograph in the suffix of "Finally Free" on the album Scenes from a Memory is the same sound in the prefix of "The Glass Prison" on the next album, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. And the final key suffix in "As I Am" same key used on the next album, Train of Thought. Also, the piano being played in the suffix "In the Name of God" in the 'Train of Thought is not the same with the opening of "The Root of All Evil" on the next album, Octavarium.

    
* The three parts of "The Glass Prison" on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, two parts of "This Dying Soul" at the Train of Thought and the two parts of "The Root of All Evil" on Octavarium show's first seven points of the twelve points - points in the program Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill Wilson, whose program was followed by Mike Portnoy. He also said that he would make a song - another song which includes five other programs, which will be directed to Wilson

    
* Dream Theater song writing sometimes uses techniques in which part - part of a song is developed each time they played. For example, the song "6:00" from Awake. After leading a song, they almost play the chorus, but to repeat the song from the prefix again (at minute 1:33). And when the chorus was supposed to be played at the next moment, they repeat again from the prefix, at minute 2:11. This technique can also be found in "Peruvian Skies", "Blind Faith" and "Endless Sacrifice"

    
* The use of repeated notations - also re-used, which are well known from the songs - songs of Charles Ives, for example:
          
o The theme song "Wait for Sleep" appears in "Learning to Live" (minute 8:11) and also appeared twice on "Just Let Me Breath" (minute 3:39 and 5:21)
          
o The theme song "Learning to Live" appeared in "Another Day" (2:53 minutes)
          
o The theme song "Space-Dye Vest" is used several times in the album Awake.
          
o The theme of the opening of "erotomania" used in "Voices" in Awake (4:51 minutes).
          
o One of melody - a melody in "Metropolis Pt 1 (The Miracle and the Sleeper)" is repeated in the second chorus in "Home" from Metropolis Pt 2 (Scenes From A Memory), by just changing one word. Some lyrics from "Metropolis Pt 1" just used in the "Home". Basically, the whole album "Scenes From A Memory" is full of musical / lyrical / conceptual variations of elements - musical elements of "Metropolis Pt 1" and "The Dance of Eternity" is actually constructed from variations - variations in the elements of music in songs - songs in album.
          
o Section - baguan of each song on the album "Octavarium" has been used in the fifth section of the same titled song, "Octavarium".

    
* Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, their sixth studio album, contains six songs and have character - character number six in the title - the title song. Train of Thought, their seventh studio album, contains seven songs. Octavarium, their eighth studio album includes eight songs and the album title is taken from the word octo, which is a Latin word that means eight, meaning that one octave of the musical term, which is the distance from one note to another note are eight notes in scales diatonik . More titles of this CD is 24 minutes, a multiple of 8. The front page of the album also contains the character - a character associated with 5 and 8. For example, a set of boxes - white boxes and boxes - black boxes, have the meanings an octave of the piano.

    
* The song "Octavarium" used to want to end with an echoing flute similar to the prefix of the song. But the piano is replaced with the same prefix from the album Octavarium. Mike Portnoy has said that the series prefix - suffix album will stop here, because the upcoming ninth album will be preceded by the suffix "Octavarium"

    
* Detailed analysis of the "nuggets" in "Octavarium" (called by Mike Portnoy as "a giant nugget") has been published in an independent site.


source: http://jieksrock.blogspot.com/2009_02_22_archive.html

History

 Inspired by the audience response to Dream Theater's heavier songs while on tour, Train of Thought is widely considered their heaviest album to date. The album was written in three weeks. It was engineered by Doug Oberkircher and mixed by Kevin Shirley. The album has seven songs, while its predecessor (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence) has six and its successor (Octavarium) has eight. The song pattern then reverses for the next two albums; Systematic Chaos has seven songs (counting both parts of "In the Presence of Enemies" as one) , and Black Clouds & Silver Linings has six. This carries out the theme of Octavarium, which states that everything ends where it began.

Reception

The album has been generally well-received by critics and fans. The album retains a perfect 5-star rating from fans on iTunes.

Songs

  • The first song "As I Am" starts with the ending synth/orchestral chord of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.
  • Some lyrics of As I Am were inspired by Dream Theater's 2003 summer tour with Queensryche, described by Mike Portnoy as an "irksome series of shows." According to Portnoy, Queensryche guitarist Mike Stone tried giving John Petrucci tips on playing guitar, leading Petrucci to write the lyrics: "Don't tell me what's in, tell me how to write".
  • "This Dying Soul" continues Mike Portnoy's Twelve-step Suite, started with "The Glass Prison" on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and later continued with "The Root of All Evil" on Octavarium, "Repentance" on Systematic Chaos, ending with " The Shattered Fortress" on "Black Clouds & Silver Linings". These songs share some of the lyrics and melodies.
  • "Honor Thy Father" was written about Mike Portnoy's stepfather. When asked about what inspired him to write that song, he stated in an IRC chat: "I'm not very good at writing love songs, so I decided to write a HATE song!!!"
  • Some of the mumbles during "Honor Thy Father" are taken from Paul Thomas Anderson's film Magnolia, in the scene when Jason Robards' character is talking to Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, explaining him about his regrets in life. There are also parts taken from the movie At Close Range in which a scene of Sean Penn and Christopher Walken's characters can be heard arguing.
  • The lyrics to Vacant were inspired by James LaBrie's daughter, who fell into a short coma after suffering a sudden, unexplained seizure three days before her seventh birthday.
  • Stream of Consciousness is the longest Dream Theater instrumental to date (not counting live mash-ups such as Instrumedley and "When The Water Breaks" from Liquid Tension Experiment II).
  • In the Train of Thought Instrumental Bootleg release you can hear at the end of Stream of Consciousness that there is a baseball match on the TV in the background behind Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci delibrating whether that take was better than the previous one.
  • Between 5:51 and 6:07 of the song "In the Name of God", there was a hidden composition buried beneath the far louder sounds of the song itself which lay undiscovered for over a year and a half. The band did not tell anyone that a hidden "nugget" (as it became known amongst Dream Theater fans) was present in the song, and only when Mike Portnoy mentioned it in his Mike Portnoy: Live at Budokan Drum-Cam DVD over a year later did someone find it. The Mike Portnoy message board was rife with fans scouring the song looking for what it might be, until a fan going by the pseudonymous name "DarrylRevok" mentioned that from 05:51 to 06:07 there appeared to be morse code audible, which Nick Bogovich (user handle "Bogie") isolated and discovered that when translated to English, the phrase "eat my ass and balls" (a Mike Portnoy catchphrase) was the result.
  • From 12:56 onwards of "In the Name of God", the American civil war hymn "Battle Hymn of the Republic" can be heard in the right channel.
  • "In The Name of God" has 14 letters in its title and is 14:14 in length. 14 is also double the number of the album as well as the number of songs. In addition, "Train of Thought" is 14 letters long.
  • Jordan Rudess played the final note in the album (heard at 14:08 of "In the Name of God") with his nose as shown in "Making The Train of Thought" documentary. Mike Portnoy approved the take while he was filming. This is also the first note of Octavarium's first song, "The Root of All Evil" and the last note of the last song, "Octavarium" (heard at 23:29).
  • As I Am and Honor Thy Father are the only Dream Theater songs recorded to use the word "fuck".
taken from : wikipedia

Track Listing
  1. As I Am
  2. This Dying Soul
  3. Endless Sacrifice
  4. Honor Thy Father
  5. Vacant
  6. Stream Of Consciousness
  7. In The Name Of God 



















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Kiss And Tell Lyrics


Yeah
J-J-J JB
Yeah, whoa,
No, noo,

Now I can see it girl,
You ain't gotta say nothing
Your lips are callin me,
Like they wanna do something,

I feel the chemistry,
With everything we make,
A little kiss is a definite possibility,
Seen you a couple times,
Had a couple conversations,
Since you’ve been on my mind,
Made a couple observations,

Like you’re a fly chick,
You could be my chick,
Play by the rules and
You could get what I get,

Just keep it quiet,
Keep it on the hush
(Yeah, yeah)
And what we do keep it just between us,
(Yeah, yeah)

I don't want to see tweet about JB,
Cause the only people that you know,
Is you and me so,

Baby, I know that you’re cool
With rockin with me,
But I can't have you tellin everybody
You got me all twisted with your lips
Like this,

So tell me, tell me,
Are you gonna kiss, kiss and tell,
Tell me are you gonna kiss, kiss and tell
Tell me are you gonna kiss me
Then tell everybody,
That you got me twisted
With your lips girl,
Are you gonna kiss and tell,

Its called a date short,
No one has to do with it,
Just you and me girl,
Tell em' we’re doin it,

Don't need that TMZ,
All in our privacy,
Use em' lips for kissin girl,
If you wanna ride with me,

And if you wanna tell somebody,
Then we can call the whole thing off,
(No Problem)

You can go your way,
And I'll go mine,
But I rather spend a little time with you,
Yeah,

Just keep it quiet,
(Yeah, yeah)

Keep it on the hush,
And what we do,
Keep it just between us,
(Yeah, yeah)

I don't wanna see tweet about JB,
Cause the only people that you know,
Is you and me so,

Baby, I know that you’re cool
With rockin with me,
But I can't have you tellin everybody
You got me all twisted with your lips like this,

So tell me, tell me,
Are you gonna kiss, kiss and tell,
Tell me are you gonna kiss, kiss and tell
Tell me are you gonna kiss me
Then tell everybody,
That you got me twisted with your lips,
Girl are you gonna kiss and tell,

Tell, said are you gonna kiss and tell,
Tell, said are you gonna kiss and tell,
Tell, said are you gonna kiss and tell,

Oh,
Don't tell your homies,
Don't tell you mama,
Don't tell your girlfriend,
That’ll start some drama,

Stay off that facebook,
I'll treat you real good,
You keep this private,
And you can get what I get,
(Ohh)

Baby, I know that you’re cool
With rockin with me,
But I can't have you tellin everybody,
You got me all twisted with your lips like this,

So tell me, tell me,
Are you gonna kiss, kiss and tell,
Tell me are you gonna kiss, kiss and tell
Tell me are you gonna kiss me,
Then tell everybody,
That you got me twisted
With your lips girl,
Are you gonna kiss and tell,

Whoa,
Kiss and tell,
Whoa, whoa

I’m not about that,
If you’re gonna kiss and tell
Noo, no, no
If you’re gonna kiss and tell,
If you’re gonna kiss and tell,
That’s not me


DREAM THEATER

Dream Theater adalah salah satu grup progressive metal paling terkemuka di dunia saat ini. Didirikan oleh Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci dan John Myung, mereka telah merilis delapan album studio, empat rekaman live dan satu album pendek (EP). Album pertama mereka, When Dream And Day Unite direkam dengan Charlie Dominici sebagai vokalis dan Kevin Moore sebagai pemain keyboards. Dominici berusia jauh lebih tua daripada anggota lainnya dan ingin memainkan musik yang lain, sehingga ia kemudian keluar dari grup. Mereka kemudian mencari pengganti yang ideal selama 2 tahun sampai akhirnya bertemu dengan James LaBrie, vokalis dari Kanada melalui audisi.

Bersama LaBrie mereka merekam Images And Words yang melambungkan nama mereka ke jajaran internasional dengan hit "Pull Me Under" dan "Another Day". Awake adalah album terakhir mereka dengan Moore yang kemudian digantikan oleh Derek Sherinian untuk album Falling Into Infinity. Pada akhirnya Sherinian juga digantikan oleh Jordan Rudess dan formasi ini masih bertahan sampai akhir tahun 2010. Karena Mike Portny yang bernama asli Michael Stephen Portnoy telah memutuskan untuk keluar dari Dream Theater. Mereka telah meluncurkan album konsep Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory dan album ganda Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. Pada tahun 2003 mereka memutuskan untuk merekam album non-konsep Train Of Thought yang sangat dipengaruhi oleh grup thrash metal seperti Metallica.

Album terbaru mereka yang berjudul Octavarium dikeluarkan pada tanggal 7 Juni 2005 dan selain merupakan album studio kedelapan juga mengandung delapan lagu.

Setelah Dream Theater meluncurkan album Live mereka dalam memperingati 20 tahun Dream Theater terbentuk yang berjudul Score yang direkam pada tanggal 1 April 2006 di Radio City Music Hall,US. Mereka kembali bersiap meluncurkan album ke sembilan mereka dengan membawa bendera label record baru yaitu RoadRunner Records, mereka telah merampungkan album Systematic Chaos yang berisi 8 lagu dan telah diluncurkan pada tanggal 5 Juni 2007 di US.


Sejarahnya Dream Theater


Dream Theater dibentuk pada bulan September 1985, ketika gitaris John Petrucci dan bassis John Myung memutuskan untuk membentuk sebuah band untuk mengisi waktu luang mereka ketika bersekolah di Berklee College of Music di Boston. Mereka lalu bertemu seorang pemain drum, Mike Portnoy, di salah satu ruang latihan di Berklee, dan setelah dua hari negosiasi, mereka berhasil mengajak Mike Portnoy untuk bergabung. Setelah itu, mereka bertiga ingin mengisi dua tempat kosong di band tersebut, dan Petrucci bertanya kepada teman band, Kevin Moore, untuk menjadi pemain keyboard. Dia setuju, dan ketika Chris Collins diajak untuk menjadi vokalis, band tersebut sudah komplit.

Dengan lima anggota, mereka memutuskan untuk menamai band tersebut dengan nama Majesty. Menurut dokumentasi DVD Score, mereka berlima sedang mengantri tiket untuk konser Rush di Berklee Performance Center ketika mendengarkan Rush dengan boom box. Portnoy lalu berkata bahwa akhiran dari lagu tersebut (Bastille Day) terdengar sangat "majestic". Pada saat itulah mereka memutuskan Majesty adalah nama yang bagus untuk sebuah band, dan tetap bagus sampai sekarang.

Pada saat - saat tersebut, Portnoy, Petrucci dan Myung masih berkutat dengan kuliah mereka, juga dengan kerja paruh waktu dan mengajar. Jadwal mereka menjadi kiat ketat sehingga mereka harus memutuskan antara mengejar karir di bidang musik atau mengakhiri band Majesty. Namun akhirnya Majesty menang dan mereka bertiga keluar dari Berklee untuk berkonsentrasi di karir musik. Petrucci mengomentari tentang hal ini di dokumentasi DVD Score, berkata bahwa saat tersebut sangat susah untuk meminta kepada orang tuanya untuk pergi ke sekolah musik. Dan lebih susah lagi untuk menyakinkan orang tuanya agar ia boleh keluar dari sekolah.

Moore juga akhirnya keluar dari sekolahnya, SUNY Fredonia, untuk berkonsentrasi dengan band tersebut.



Teknik Penulisan Lagu

Beberapa teknik penulisan lagu yang unik telah dilakukan oleh Dream Theater, yang kebanyakan terjadi di masa - masa sekarang, ketika mereka bisa bereksperimen dengan label rekaman mereka sendiri.

Dimulai dengan Train of Thought, Dream Theater sudah memulai memasukkan elemen - elemen kecil dan tersembunyi di musik mereka, dan memuat elemen tersebut kepada peminat yang lebih fanatik. Karakteristik yang paling terkenal (yang biasa disebut "nugget") tersembunyi di "In the Name of God", yang merupakan sandi morse dari "eat my ass and balls" (makan pantatku dan penisku), yang merupakan kata - kata terkenal dari Mike Portnoy. Sejak saat itu, banyak peminat - peminat Dream Theater mulai berusaha menemukan hal - hal kecil yang biasanya tidak menarik bagi peminat biasa.

Beberapa dari teknik mereka yang terkenal termasuk:

    * Suara dari fonograf di akhiran dari "Finally Free" di album Scenes from a Memory adalah suara yang sama di awalan "The Glass Prison" di album berikutnya, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Dan akhiran kunci terakhir di "As I Am" sama dengan kunci yang digunakan di album selanjutnya, Train of Thought. Juga, not piano yang dimainkan di akhiran "In the Name of God" di 'Train of Thought adalah not yang sama dengan pembukaan "The Root of All Evil" di album berikutnya, Octavarium.

    * Tiga bagian dari "The Glass Prison" di Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, dua bagian dari "This Dying Soul" di Train of Thought dan dua bagian dari "The Root of All Evil" di Octavarium menunjukkan tujuh poin pertama dari dua belas poin - poin di program Alcoholics Anonymous oleh Bill Wilson, yang mana program itu diikuti oleh Mike Portnoy. Ia juga berkata bahwa ia akan membuat lagu - lagu lain yang memuat lima program lainnya, yang akan ditujukan untuk Wilson

    * Dream Theater kadang menggunakan teknik penulisan lagu dimana bagian - bagian dari sebuah lagu dikembangkan tiap kali mereka dimainkan. Contohnya, lagu "6:00" dari Awake. Setelah awalan lagu, mereka hampir memainkan chorus, tapi mengulang lagu tersebut dari awalan lagi (di menit 1:33). Dan ketika chorus sudah seharusnya dimainkan pada saat berikutnya, mereka mengulang lagi dari awalan, di menit 2:11. Teknik ini bisa juga ditemukan di "Peruvian Skies", "Blind Faith" dan "Endless Sacrifice"

    * Penggunaan notasi yang berulang - ulang juga digunakan, yang sudah dikenal dari lagu - lagu Charles Ives, contohnya:
          o Tema lagu "Wait for Sleep" muncul di "Learning to Live" (menit 8:11) dan juga muncul dua kali di "Just Let Me Breath" (menit 3:39 dan 5:21)
          o Tema lagu "Learning to Live" muncul di "Another Day" (menit 2:53)
          o Tema lagu "Space-Dye Vest" digunakan beberapa kali di album Awake.
          o Tema pembukaan dari "Erotomania" digunakan di "Voices" di Awake (menit 4:51).
          o Satu dari melodi - melodi di "Metropolis Pt 1 (The Miracle and the Sleeper)" diulang di chorus kedua di "Home" dari Metropolis Pt 2 (Scenes From A Memory), dengan cuma pengubahan satu kata. Beberapa lirik dari "Metropolis Pt 1" just digunakan di "Home". Pada dasarnya, keseluruhan album "Scenes From A Memory" penuh dengan musikal/lirikal/konseptual variasi dari elemen - elemen musikal dari "Metropolis Pt 1" dan "The Dance of Eternity" sebenarnya dibangun dari variasi - variasi elemen musik di lagu - lagu dalam album tersebut.
          o Bagian - baguan dari tiap lagu di album "Octavarium" telah digunakan di bagian kelima dari lagu berjudul sama, "Octavarium".

    * Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, studio album ke enam mereka, memuat enam lagu dan mempunyai karakter - karakter angka enam di judul - judul lagunya. Train of Thought, studio album ke tujuh mereka, memuat tujuh lagu. Octavarium, studio album ke delapan mereka memuat delapan lagu dan judul albumnya diambil dari kata octo, yang merupakan kata Latin yang berarti delapan, berarti satu oktaf dari istilah musik, yang mana merupakan jarak dari satu not ke not lain adalah delapan not di tangga nada diatonik. Judul lagi dari CD ini adalah 24 menit, kelipatan dari 8. Halaman depan albumnya juga memuat karakter - karakter yang berhubungan dengan 5 dan 8. Contohnya, satu set dari kotak - kotak putih dan kotak - kotak hitam, mempunyai arti satu oktaf dari piano.

    * Lagu "Octavarium" dulunya ingin diakhiri dengan seruling yang bergema serupa dengan awalan lagu tersebut. Namun diganti dengan not piano yang sama dari awalan album Octavarium. Mike Portnoy telah mengatakan bahwa seri awalan - akhiran album akan berhenti disini, karena album ke sembilan mendatang tidak akan diawali dengan akhiran "Octavarium"

    * Analisis detil tentang "nugget" di "Octavarium" (disebut oleh Mike Portnoy sebagai "sebuah nugget raksasa") telah dipublikasikan di sebuah situs independen.


sumber : http://jieksrock.blogspot.com/2009_02_22_archive.html




Mungkin inilah kabar yang paling mengejutkan menjelang akhir tahun. Kalangan pecinta progressive sangat dihebohkan dengan keputusan sepihak Mike Portnoy yang memilih mundur sebagai drummer DREAM THEATER. Band yang telah dibangun dan membesarkan namanya dalam 25 tahun terakhir.
“Sebelumnya aku tidak pernah membayangkan ini akan terjadi. tapi setelah 25 tahun akhirnya keputusan besar telah aku buat dengan keluar dari DREAM THEATER. Band yang sangat aku cintai, yang sudah aku bentuk seperempat abad.
“Mungkin banyak orang akan shock dengan berita ini, tapi tolong mengerti tentang keputusan penting yang sudah aku buat. Ini memang keputusan sulit tapi jujur pergolakan ini sudah ada sejak tahun lalu…..
“Setelah setahun terakhir lebih intens bermain di beberapa band seperti HAIL!, TRANSATLANTIC dan juga AVENGED SEVENFOLD, jujur aku lebih merasakan kesenangan dengan mereka dan kedekatan dibanding dengan situasi sekarang di DREAM THEATER.
“Tapi tolong jangan salah paham kalau menilai aku membenci DREAM THEATER. Aku punya cerita panjang dengan band itu dan aku mencintai DREAM THEATER bakan nama itu juga datang dari pemberian ayahku. Tapi aku pikir aku butuh suasana baru setidaknya untuk saat sekarang.
“Ada perasaan lain yang juga aku rasakan kalau DREAM THEATER seperti ingin membuat skema mengeluarkan aku dari band dan keputusan aku juga untuk menyelematkan hubungan personal dengan personil lain untuk membuat DREAM THEATER tetap penuh inspirasi.
“Aku minta maaf untuk semua fans berat DREAM THEATER tapi tolong mengerti tentang situasi sekarang. Saat ini aku hanya ingin istirahat dari band tersebut dan bukan berarti keluar sepenuhnya,” kata Mike Portnoy seperti yang dilansir dari catatan resminya yang temuat di facebook.
DREAM THEATER adalah panutan utama di scene progressive metal dunia. Terbentuk di tahun 1986 band ini jarang berganti personil dan keluarnya Mike Portnoy menjadi orang ketiga personil asli yang hengkang dimana sebelumnya ada vokalis Charles Dominici dan keyboardist Kevin Moore. Praktis tinggal John Myung dan John Petrucci yang menjadi personil asli band ini.
Sejak terbentuk di tahun 1986, Mike Portnoy bersama DREAM THEATER setidaknya telah merilis sepuluh album penuh termasuk debut “When Dream and Day Unite” di tahun 1989 dan “Black Cloud and Silver Linnings” di tahun 2009.
Mike Portnoy atau yang bernama asli Michael Stephen Portnoy ini pernah meraih beberapa penghargaan utama sebagai drummer terbaik menurut beberapa versi termasuk 23 kali menjadi juara versi Majalah Modern Drummer. Dan pria yang memiliki darah keturunan Yahudi ini lahir 20 April 1967

sumber : http://berontakzine.com/news/2010/09/09/mike-portnoy-keluar-dari-dream-theater/


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     Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)* is a compilation album by progressive metal band Dream Theater released by Rhino Records on April 1, 2008. The title alludes to their only Top-10 radio hit, "Pull Me Under." It features three songs from their breakthrough album Images and Words remixed by Kevin Shirley: "Pull Me Under," "Take the Time," and "Another Day." It also features the song "To Live Forever," an Awake-era re-recording of the song from the Images and Words sessions (featured as a B-side of the "Lie" single), which was previously unreleased on a full length album. Several single edits of popular Dream Theater songs are also featured on this compilation.

     The songs have been divided in two discs: the first one, dubbed "The Dark Side," features heavy, metal-influenced songs, while the second one, entitled "The Light Side," spotlights the band's melodic side. The set spans the years from 1991 to 2005, therefore it doesn't include any songs from Dream Theater's debut album, When Dream and Day Unite, their A Change of Seasons EP (although it was released in 1995), their 2007 release Systematic Chaos, or their 2009 release, Black Clouds and Silver Linings.

     Drummer Mike Portnoy explains in the album's booklet that the selection of songs were carefully made in order to appease both the newcomer and the already existing fan by offering up different versions of songs on other albums to "make the newcomer want to buy the albums from whence they came" and to "give different versions of songs already on other albums" to the current fan. He also suggests that a third disc should've been included called "The Epic Side" showcasing their progressive side.


source : wiki

download all these songs,
 Disc One (The Dark Side) : 
  1. Pull Me Under
  2. Take The Time
  3. Lie
  4. Peruvian Skies
  5. Home
  6. Misunderstood
  7. The Test That Stumped Them All
  8. As I Am
  9. Endless Sacrifice
  10. The Root of All Evil
  11. Sacrificed Sons

Disc Two (The Light Side) :
  1. Another Day
  2. To Live Forever
  3. Lifting Shadows Of a Dreams
  4. The Silent Man
  5. Hollow Years
  6. Through Her Eyes
  7. The Spirit Carries On
  8. Solitary Shell
  9. I Walk Beside You
  10. The Answer Lies Within
  11. Disappear


Personnel

  • James LaBrie – vocals
  • John Petrucci – guitar, backing vocals
  • John Myung – bass
  • Mike Portnoy – drums, backing vocals
  • Jordan Rudess – keyboard (tracks 5–11 on disc one and tracks 6–11 on disc two)
  • Kevin Moore – keyboard (tracks 1–3 on disc one and tracks 1-4 on disc two)
  • Derek Sherinian – keyboard, backing vocals on "Peruvian Skies" and "Hollow Years"
  • Jay Beckenstein – saxophone on "Another Day" and "Through Her Eyes"
  • Theresa Thomason – additional vocals on "Through Her Eyes" and "The Spirit Carries On"


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