Song of the Day: Concept Special!
I’m a sucker for concepts in music. I liked Linkin Park’s new album right away because it was a concept album. Other shining examples would be Pink Floyd’s epic classic, The Wall, Pink Floyd’s Animals album, The Who’s Tommy, The Chronicles of Isrefel’s Starborn Tome I album, and Queensrÿche’s Operation: Mindcrime albums.
For todays song of the day (which, admittedly, seems to happen intermittently as opposed to everyday), I’ve decided to post Dream Theater’s Twelve Step Suite.
The Twelve Step Suite is not on just one Dream Theater album, rather, the songs have each been spread out and featured in every album since Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. The Twelve Step Suite, written by Mike Portnoy, deals with his experience of alcoholism. Each song, as the name implies, represents a number of the twelve steps, which are the steps to recovery in organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous, and other like “12 Step Programs.”
I hope you all like long songs, because each of these is over 8 minutes long with the longest one at almost 14 minutes. Which is reasonable if you imagine that these are technically 12 songs.
Here is the track list (broken down):
- The Glass Prison - 13:53
- I. Reflection
- II. Restoration
- III. Revelation
- This Dying Soul - 11:28
- IV. Reflections of Reality (Revisited)
- V. Release
- The Root of All Evil - 8:26
- VI. Ready
- VII. Remove
- Repentance - 10:43
- VIII. Regret
- IX. Restitution
- The Shattered Fortress - 12:49
- X. Restraint
- XI. Receive
- XII. Responsible
Anyway, if you guys have an extra hour to spend and listen to this masterpiece, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.
If you’re in the Dashboard, you have to click this little square here to see the playlist (as if you didn’t know that.)
Of Hummingbirds
I hover like an underscore above the water
watching the vapor twist to my presence.
It reminds me how fragile the air is,
and how fortunate that is for me.
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Do you sometimes wish your wings could whisper?
Do I resist the urge to bury myself in your hair
because it smells like how flowers taste?
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Maybe.
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I can stay perched for only so long.
I know your heart beats slowly.
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Having the imagination you do,
you like the way the scattered clouds in the morning
sometimes look like crayon scribbles.
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I had never thought of it like that before.
You’re absolutely right.
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I could learn a thing or two from you about
producing such a beautiful aura,
and in return,
I could show you how to move in any direction,
even backwards,
without fear.
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Take notice the hum of my awkward.
It’s hard to keep a good composure
when my heart has beaten 1200 times in the last minute.
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Don’t worry.
I’m not afraid to sing for you.
~GunMetal
