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Innocence Faded Lyrics

Animation
breathes a cloudless mind
Fascination
leaves the doubting blind
Until the circle breaks and wisdom lies ahead
the faithful live Awake
the rest remain misled

Some will transcend spinning years
One as if time disappears

Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you

Callow and vain
fixed like a fossil, shrouding pain
Passionless stage
Distant like brothers
Wearing apathetic displays
Sharing flesh like envy in cages
Condescending
Not intending to end

Some will transcend spinning years
One as if time disappears

Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you

Beginnings get complicated
the farther we progress
Opinions are calculated
Immune to openness

Beyond the circle's edge
We're driven by her blessings
Forever hesitating
Caught beneath the wheel

Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Cynically jaded
The child will crawl to find you.
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Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

I love the last line of this song. Using "the child" to represent the pure innocence we're all born with is genius. Then, when we sin, the child of innocence begins crawling through to find our true goodness.

As a side note it may be interesting to keep in mind that a child crawling would never be able to catch up with a grown person. This may be a metaphor that once you've lost your innocence, it's gone forever.

\m/ DREAM THEATER \m/

Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

I'm pretty sure this about Kevin Moore becoming more distant and separate from the group.

Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

Growing up. Loss of innocence and the feeling that the world is becoming all too real for the first time. Being annoyed with the occurrences in life that all adolescents go through when they begin losing their innocence. There really seems to be a straight and direct connection between title and meaning in this one, as the entire song references heavily to the process of growing up and slowly entering adulthood. Considering that Kevin Moore wrote this, he could have also been writing metaphorically about how his connection with the rest of Dream Theater was fading.

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"Considering that Kevin Moore wrote this"... except, IIRC, John Petrucci wrote this song.

-Marc.

Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

Great upbeat song off the Awake album. Really shows their Rush influences.

Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

Can't wait to hear the "Score"-version.

Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

Oh dude it's just amazingly good in Score! :D Petrucci's added atmospheric-solo section is great!

Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

LaBrie the man is finally back. I've missed him.

Cover art for Innocence Faded lyrics by Dream Theater

My favorite Dream Theater song. Love the guitar intro. Very Melodic. Awake is definatly my favorite album.

 
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