Finally Free Lyrics

Lyric discussion by troy5117 

Cover art for Finally Free lyrics by Dream Theater

Some people have it, but I want to specify exactly what happened.

A man named Nicholas is visiting a hypnotherapist because he keeps having a recurring dream where he vividly enters another person's life, which is preventing him from living his own life.

He learns the other life is that of a girl named Victoria, and that Nicholas is the reincarnation of Victoria, which is why he's the one she's haunting. He also learns that she was murdered, and won't leave him alone until he finds out the truth of her murder.

Nicholas goes to a house and meets an old man who tells him what he knows of the murder, then tells him he'll find out the truth in time. So Nicholas finds a newspaper article that explains the current story of what happened.

He learns Victoria was seeing a man named Julian, who fell into a dark place after becoming addicted to alcohol and gambling, and breaks up with him. Then one night someone heard a struggle and ran over to find Julian laying over Victoria's body, and a note that's allegedly from Julian saying that he can't live without her. So it's assumed that Julian killed Victoria.

Nicholas then goes back into Victoria's memories again and finds out after breaking up with Julian, his brother Edward began to comfort her, and quickly fell in love with her. So behind his brothers back they began their secret affair.

Nicholas finally realizes this and the final memory is revealed to him. He learns Julian told Victoria he was working to get over his vices because he loved her too much and wanted to get back together. They agree to meet up, and since Victoria had always loved Julian she plans to break it off with his brother Edward. They thought the meeting was a secret, but Edward shows up. He's angry Victoria left him for Julian, and gets into a fight with Julian, then pulls out a gun and shoots him. Victoria starts to scream so he tells her "Open your eyes Victoria."

He then kills her and writes the suicide note they found on Julian then leaves. Now that Nicholas knows the truth he returns home. He starts relaxing and getting comfortable, saying how he learned so much and is happy to be living his own life again, when the Hypnotherapist comes in. The Hypnotherapist is Edward's reincarnation, and does murder Nicholas in order to continue the cycle.

I know it's lengthy, but that's the whole album summarized for you/

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