A Mind Beside Itself Lyrics - Dream Theater

[Erotomania] 

(instrumental) 

[Voices] 

"Love, just don't stare" 

He used to say to me every Sunday morning 

The spider in the window' 

The angel in the pool 

The old man takes the poison 

Now the widow makes the rules 

"So speak, I'm right here" 

She used to say to me 

not a word not a word 

Judas on the ceiling, the Devil in my bed 

I guess Easter's never coming 

So I'll just wait inside my head 

Like a scream but sort of silent 

Living off my nightmares 

Voices repeating me "Feeling threatened? 

We reflect your hopes and fears." 

Voices discussing me "Others steal your thoughts 

they're not confined within your mind." 

Thought disorder Dream control 

Now they read my mind on the radio 

But where was the garden of Eden? 

I feel elated' I feel depressed 

Sex is death, Death is sex 

Says it right here on my Crucifix 

Like a scream but sort of silence 

Living off my nightmares 

Voices protecting me 

"Good behavior brings the Savior to his knees." 

Voices rejecting me 

"Others steal your thoughts they're not confined to your mind." 

I'm kneeling on the floor staring at the wall 

like the spider in the window 

I wish that I could speak 

Is there fantasy in refuge? 

God in politicians? 

Should I turn on my religion? 

These demon in my head tell me to 

I'm lying here in bed 

Swear my skin is inside out 

Just another Sunday morning 

Seen my diary on the newsstand 

Seems we've lost the truth to quicksand 

It's a shame no one is praying 

"Cause these voices in my head 

keep saying:"Love just don't stare." 

Reveal the World when you're 

Withdrawn and introverted infectiously perverted 

"Being laughed at and confused 

keeps us pleasantly amused enough to stay." 

Maybe I'm just Cassandra fleeting 

Twentieth century Icon bleeding 

Willing to risk Salvation to escape from isolation 

I'm whitness to redemption 

heard to speak but never listened 

Can you rid of my secrets? 

Deliver us from Darkness? 

Voice repeating me, "feeling threatened? 

we reflect your hopes and fears." 

Voices discussing me 

Don't expect your own Messiah 

This neverworld which you desire in only in your mind. 

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[The Silent Man] 

A question well served, 

'Is silence like a fever?' 

'A voice never heard?' 

'Or a message with no receiver?' 

Pray they won't ask 

Behind the stained glass 

There's always one more mask 

Has man been a victim 

of his woman, of his father? 

if he elects not to bother, 

will he suffocate their faith? 

Desperate to fall 

Behind the Great Wall 

That separates us all 

Photos 

When there is reason 

Tonight I'm Awake 

when there's no answer 

Arrive the Silent Man 

If there is balance 

tonight He's Awake 

If they have to suffer 

There lies the Silent Man 

Sin without deceivers 

A God with no believers 

I could sail by 

on the Winds of Silence 

And maybe they won't notice 

But this time I think 

It'd be better if I swim 

When there is reason 

Tonight I'm Awake 

When there's no answer 

Arrive the Silent Man 

If there is balance 

Tonight he's Awake 

But if they have to suffer 

There lies the Silent Man.