You know, the if I have to pick the candidate for most memorable Images and Words song, the award would have to go to TTT.
Why you may ask?
"We decided to write a song about everything we'd been going through for the past three years - looking for a new singer, a new label & new management - just all the changes we made & all the frustrations we went through...but, have it coming from each of our four different perspectives. So, we broke it up, and said 'Okay, you take the 1st verse, you take the 2nd verse,' went away, wrote lyrics about our feelings about all the stuff we were going through, and then put it together. Then [we] wrote the chorus together. That was the 1st time we had ever done that, and it's the only song on the album where the lyrics were actually written by everybody."
-Mike Portnoy
The ONLY song to be written by all the band members and it is hella good. You have to love everything about the song. The introduction, the bass hook, the sampling, the solo's, the verse, and much more!
You can see the aggressiveness in the first verse, the mellowness of the bridge, the epic unison and instrumental section, and Kevin Moore's solo.
Dream Theater didn't give up and they prospered and they created a wonderful song. If I was forced to rank Take the Time, I'd put it at #1 with the rest of the songs.
If I wasn't cheating and had to brutally honest, this song would be my third favorite song. Though they are all perfect one way or another.