Every Dream Theater album I know has a song that I underrate, and each one slowly finds its way to me. I think that this might be the case of Awake.
A person who causes more damage than goodness. Either Petrucci is telling us to forget about the person's flaws and live with them in harmony, or he's telling us to remove the person from our lives. Both polar opposites. Yet, there seems to be a hope within this song; he seems to be resigning to the fact that no human is perfect and that he can find comfort and trust in his creator. I find that to be a bit silly, but it's what he seems to be saying. The scarring may not have even been caused by the person, but rather it can be scars that he went through with this other person (a reference to thirty years of being "in this together" signifies a spouse). Of course, this could just skip the middle-man of a person and have it be directly about God.
Every Dream Theater album I know has a song that I underrate, and each one slowly finds its way to me. I think that this might be the case of Awake.
A person who causes more damage than goodness. Either Petrucci is telling us to forget about the person's flaws and live with them in harmony, or he's telling us to remove the person from our lives. Both polar opposites. Yet, there seems to be a hope within this song; he seems to be resigning to the fact that no human is perfect and that he can find comfort and trust in his creator. I find that to be a bit silly, but it's what he seems to be saying. The scarring may not have even been caused by the person, but rather it can be scars that he went through with this other person (a reference to thirty years of being "in this together" signifies a spouse). Of course, this could just skip the middle-man of a person and have it be directly about God.