Dream Theater - Repentance (Album Version)

SYSTEMATIC CHAOS -Released-June 4, 2007 -Recorded-September 2006 -- February 2007 -Avatar Studios in New York City -Genre-Progressive metal -Label-Roadrunner Records * James LaBrie -- lead vocals * John Myung -- bass * John Petrucci -- guitars and backing vocals * Mike Portnoy -- drums, percussion and backing vocals (co. lead vocals on "Constant Motion") * Jordan Rudess -- keyboards and continuum LYRICS: Hello Mirror, so glad to see you my friend it's been a while... Staring at the empty page before me All the years of wreckage running through my head Patterns of my life I thought adorned me Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me As the pen begins to trace my darkest past Signs throughout my life that should have warned me Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent I once thought it better to regret Things that I have done than haven't Sometimes you've got to be wrong And learn the hard way Sometimes you've got to be strong When you think it's too late Staring at the finished page before me All the damage now so clear and evident Thinking about the dreaded task in store for me A bitter fear at the thought of my amends Hoping that the step will help restore me To face my past and ask for forgiveness Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street Could this be the beginning of the end? I once thought it better to regret Things that I have done than haven't Sometimes you've got to be wrong And learn the hard way Just when you're <b>...</b>
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