Repentance Lyrics
okay, everyone says this song isn't up-to-par with DT... but what they are doing is just portraying the emotions and mood that come with the 8th and 9th steps.... by making it lighter and slower....i mean, who goes through regret angry or full of super-fast energy?
I love this song...so...yeah... i think someone already said pretty much the same thing... EDIT:YtseJam said it....heh
-Zane-
My least favorite song on Systematic Chaos, but it's still pretty good.
Guest vocalists go as follows:
* Corey Taylor
* Joe Satriani
* Steve Vai
* Steven Wilson
* Mikael Åkerfeldt
* Jon Anderson
* David Ellefson
* Daniel Gildenlöw
* Steve Hogarth
* Chris Jericho
* Neal Morse@Aniland I was 15 when I made that comment and now at 30 I like this song a lot more. Still can't get over what an all-star guest-list that is for the confessions portion.
@Aniland I was 15 when I made that comment and now at 30 I like this song a lot more. Still can't get over what an all-star guest-list that is for the confessions portion.
My second favourite song from the AA Saga.
Well, if you take steps 8 and 9 which this song is about really, then in that context the mood that the song sets is exactly what it should be even though we all would like something else. :)
Once the the album is released, either Aniland or myself will update the lyrics here with the quotes.
Not my personal favorite Dt song :[ almost a let down. i was expecting another masterpiece in the saga....a ten minute song....ahhh. But like Mike portnoy said in his mirror interview, you can't please everyone. but i do love the guitar riff in the middle
It's true. The lyrics are set with the theme of the stages. If you guys did you're research then you'd know that.
i havent heard it yet, but i would have liked them to keep the heavy pattern with the AA saga. maybe ill like it.
The voice-over at the end of "Repentance", presumably done by Portnoy himself, is the following text:
"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them."
Source- http://silkworth.net/ Scroll half-way down the page. It's that text, word-for-word.
Also, for "Repentance", I can clearly hear Neal Morse's voice, coming in at 6:52 saying "I'm sorry for what I did...". Can anyone else confirm that? The ending also has the following: "You're only as sick as your secrets, but the truth shall set you free." "The truth is the truth, it's all you can do is live with it."
-M.
Also:
"Patterns of my life I thought I don't ...?..."
Should be...
"Patterns of my life I thought adowned me"