You Not Me Lyrics
This is the first song that Dream Theater wrote with someone that is not in the band.
It was written by John Myung and Desmond Child(the "'80s rock hit-maker"). DT's producer at that time, Kevin Shirley listened to the song and felt it needed stronger more powerful chorus and that's how Desmod got invovled and this master piece is the outcome. :)
-- This is, of course, not the meaning of this great song, just some background...
Bad by Dream Theater standards, but excellent by any other
This song is a bit too "pop" like... of course, for a rock song. Dream Theater really should've kept this a b-side I think... they would have been much better off with something like Eve. It's kinda catchy though... but not for Dream Theater fans. Of course, they know this already :P
Funny enough, though, this was their hit song on MTV back in the days... :)
I think Cover My Eyes could have possibly been in place of this song or maybe Take Away My Pain or Just Let Me Breathe. Yeah. Cover My Eyes instead of Just Let Me Breathe. I'm so burning Falling Into Infinity like that. It's too bad I'll never get to see Dream Theater on MTV or anything, I think that'd be pretty cool, lol. Not that I'd actually see any music on MTV anyway =P
If you ever get a chance, pick up Dream Theater's "Trial of Singles". Its a collection of demos and rare songs...They have the original of this on there, and IMO, the original blows this out of the water. The chorus, the most "pop" part is very different, there's another keyboard section...much better overall.
This song is so bad lol
Dream Theater kick ass!
And, btw, Petrucci and Child wrote this, not Myung.
Like all other Dream Theater lyrics, these aren't much good, outside writer or not. There are much better ways of saying "I want to live my life, not yours."
"Like all other DT lyrics?"
Are are you that songs such as "A Change of Seasons", "In the Name of God", "Learning to Live" and plenty others have /bad/ lyrics?
I completely and utterly disagree.