- john petrucci

[studio demo, available on the cd single for the song "lie". ]

[additional verse on this version, starting at 03:37, is kevin ]

[moore's last lyrical contribution to dream theater. ]

[a live version is also available on the fan club christmas cd 1998.]



If i'd started from the top

And worked my way down

There'd be no reason

To live forever

To live forever



The starvation has turned

Me outside in

And the wind has blown

Me halfway across the world

Across the world



Why was i born

In an age of distrust

I'd offered some change

For a photograph



It will always stay the same [**a**]

You will always be the same



Until i saw the desire for revenge

My heart never once went astray

As long as i have to die in the attempt

Then there is no reason

To live forever



I found you where [03:37]

They left you there

A passing word that's gone forever



And searching my memory for answers

I saw the words of a letter you wrote

She said 'you don't have to live forever,

You don't want to live forever.'

And everything's changing now,

I don't want to live forever.



[alternate ending - (live in tokyo home video)]

[beginning at **a** above. ]

It will always stay the same

Always be the same



Until i saw the desire for revenge

My heart never once went astray

As long as i have to die in the attempt

Then there is no reason

To live forever



Until i saw the desire for revenge

As long as i have to die in the attempt

If i had to charge the attack

Let me

No reason

No reason

No reason

No reason

To live forever



[alternate ending - (studio acoustic version - "subconscious" cd)]

[recorded as james labrie's vocal audition in 1990. ]

[beginning at **a** above. ]

It will always stay the same

Always be the same



Until i show desire for revenge

My heart never once went astray

As long as i have to die in the attempt

Then there'd be no reason

To live forever



Until i show desire for revenge

As long as i have to die in the attempt

As long as i have to die in the attempt

Then there'd be no reason

No reason

No reason

To live forever

To live forever

'this just in from baghdad... seven patriot missiles

Have been spotted above cuba.'