| Dream Theater – Lines in the Sand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is quite personal to me, as I feel I've experienced a lot of it... First, a couple of the guys are from a Catholic background, so "you can hear the virgin weeping for the savior of your will" is a reference to the Virgin Mary, ever interceding to the Savior on the behalf of mankind. She weeps because the message Jesus taught has been so disregarded by so many of us. "Tragic reflex, shattered calm/ Static progress, senses gone/ Numb awareness, final psalm..." When one is deeply cut or struck, the unfortunate reflex is to recoil. When that blow comes from a member of the church, or the organization as a whole, one's whole sense of stability and peace is shattered. Any "progress" that had been made in one's life is suddenly revealed as nothing more than useless static, providing no power or substance. After the initial reaction, a numbness sets in, partly from shock and partly from pain. A "swan song" is sung, in which a victim declares he's never going back. This can be supported by the title, "Drawing Lines In the Sand." They're demarkations of decision, though they're not necessarily permanent or indelible. "Living becomes so much easier once we admit we're dying" stresses a moment in time in people's lives where they understand the need of practical living rather than idyllic existence, much of which can be quite illusionary. Just my take, however. I'd love to get inside the heads of DT, particularly John Petrucci, when he penned this. I know this (1997) was a very dark time in his life, as well as forMike Portnoy, who had recently lost his mother when "A Change of Seasons" was written. |
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