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Anna Lee
One Last Time
Blind Faith
Disappear
Vacant
Sacrificed Sons
Medicate (Octavarium)
Prophets of War
Far From Heaven
The Way It Used To Be
Speak To Me

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Same poll as the JMX one, but for the other occasional DT lyricist.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2014, 02:40:10 PM »
"Disappear", from my fave DT album, and one of my favorite tracks of theirs of all time. JLB's delivery and lyrics are astounding, and it gets me teary-eyed all the time.

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2014, 02:51:57 PM »
Gotta be Blind Faith.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2014, 02:53:36 PM »
BF easily.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2014, 02:58:17 PM »
Also, the poll is missing "Speak To Me" (which is highly underrated) and "The Way It Used To Be".

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2014, 03:01:29 PM »
The Way it Used to Be, Speak to Me?

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2014, 03:11:48 PM »
Blind Faith by a huge margin.

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2014, 03:18:07 PM »
I went with Vacant. It may have the least amount of words, but he says so much in that song with so little. It's my favorite track on TOT and his lyrics and singing are the sole reason for that. Much like Mike with ACoS, James took a very personal and horrible moment from his life and turned it into an amazing song.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2014, 03:43:09 PM »
"Disappear", from my fave DT album, and one of my favorite tracks of theirs of all time. JLB's delivery and lyrics are astounding, and it gets me teary-eyed all the time.

It's incredible. One of Dream Theater's greatest moments. Way undervalued in their catalog. Would love to see them bring this out on the next tour a la Space Dye Vest.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2014, 03:58:20 PM »
I voted for Disappear, but really, I think that The Way It Used To Be and Speak To Me should be on the list as well. And even Caught in a Web for being a partial JLB lyric. Especially if we cound BAI as a partial JM lyric.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2014, 04:52:28 PM »
Disappear.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2014, 04:52:51 PM »
I hope labrie contributes at least 1 song (of reasonable length) on the next album. In the last 7 years, his lyrical contribution has been one 3.5 min song...

Anyway, Sacrificed Sons for me. Great, dark concept, seems really underrated to me

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2014, 07:24:10 PM »
I hope labrie contributes at least 1 song (of reasonable length) on the next album. In the last 7 years, his lyrical contribution has been one 3.5 min song...

That's just mainly due to his solo work taking priority in the lyric department.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2014, 07:29:18 PM »
Blind Faith has the best JLB written lyrics in my opinion.


But the ones that have the most emotional impact in me are in Vacant.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2014, 07:55:35 PM »
I hope labrie contributes at least 1 song (of reasonable length) on the next album. In the last 7 years, his lyrical contribution has been one 3.5 min song...

Anyway, Sacrificed Sons for me. Great, dark concept, seems really underrated to me

Holy crap. I can't believe it's been 7 years since Systematic Chaos... That's depressing.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2014, 08:00:34 PM »
Tough call for me between Blind Faith, Disappear and Vacant.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2014, 10:10:38 PM »
Caught in a Web?

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2014, 12:23:14 AM »
Disappear
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2014, 02:23:12 AM »
I voted for Disappear, but really, I think that The Way It Used To Be and Speak To Me should be on the list as well. And even Caught in a Web for being a partial JLB lyric. Especially if we cound BAI as a partial JM lyric.

Agreed.  Also, based on the thread title shouldn't his solo stuff be listed as well.  I mean, they are JLB lyrics.

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2014, 02:28:13 AM »
This is the DT section, so it makes sense to stick to just DT, as that's what we can assume everyone will know. :tup
It's bad enough we're starting to include Majesty stuff, it's just wasting poll space. :lol
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2014, 02:53:31 AM »
Disappear, beautiful lyrics to the saddest song I've ever heard.

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2014, 04:20:49 AM »
I voted for Disappear, but really, I think that The Way It Used To Be and Speak To Me should be on the list as well. And even Caught in a Web for being a partial JLB lyric. Especially if we cound BAI as a partial JM lyric.

Agreed.  Also, based on the thread title shouldn't his solo stuff be listed as well.  I mean, they are JLB lyrics.

No.  Did anyone actually expect his solo songs to be listed here?
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #24 on: November 19, 2014, 04:36:57 AM »
"Disappear" lyrics are awesome, of course. :hefdaddy

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« Reply #25 on: November 19, 2014, 04:51:15 AM »
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #26 on: November 19, 2014, 06:47:23 AM »
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #27 on: November 19, 2014, 07:10:03 AM »
No.  Did anyone actually expect his solo songs to be listed here?

I'm pretty pedantic, but even I understood that "Favorite JLB Lyric" in this case referred specifically to "in Dream Theater". But that does still include The Way It Used To Be and Speak To Me, so those should be in the poll.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #28 on: November 19, 2014, 07:17:48 AM »
Blind Faith all the way, its one of my favorite DT tunes and the lyrics are great.  Vacant and Disappear are both great as well though.

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #29 on: November 19, 2014, 08:43:37 AM »
Probably Disappear. It's not the best track on the list, but it has the best lyrics. Very touching, especially by the end.

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #30 on: November 19, 2014, 04:40:09 PM »
No.  Did anyone actually expect his solo songs to be listed here?

I'm pretty pedantic, but even I understood that "Favorite JLB Lyric" in this case referred specifically to "in Dream Theater". But that does still include The Way It Used To Be and Speak To Me, so those should be in the poll.

Agree with all of this.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #31 on: November 19, 2014, 05:19:58 PM »
I'm gonna have to be that guy that says Prophets of War. It needs some love. Think what you will of the song but, but the lyrics are spot on. I don't think anyone had a problem with the content so much as the presentation of the song but I could be wrong.

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #32 on: November 19, 2014, 06:45:34 PM »
I really love the song Anna Lee.  When I got into Dream Theater around the year 2000, I had trouble getting into a lot of the music due to its complexity.  I always loved simple heavy metal. 

The softer songs on FII really helped bridge the gap between the heavy riffs I loved and the long technical tangents.  When I started to examine the songs more I found out that Anna Lee was about child prostitution and I had just seen a gut wrenching documentary about an undercover investigation/rescue mission from Cambodia (I think).  It actually gave me nightmares (and I dont really have a lot of nightmares if i see something disturbing). 

The lyrics, "She keeps holding on, holding on to you" remind me of when they finally rescued this child and she was hysterically crying, wanting to go back to the strangers that abused her as she held on to the person rescuing her because she didn't know any different. 

Powerful stuff. 


But anyway, I chose Blind Faith because that song kicks more ass than any other Dream Theater song  :lol

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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #33 on: November 19, 2014, 10:05:14 PM »
Anna Lee is very underrated. It wasn't until I did it at Karaoke that I realized not only how beautiful the song is, but just how much fun it is to sing.
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Re: Favorite James LaBrie Lyrics
« Reply #34 on: November 19, 2014, 10:14:03 PM »
I'm just being pedantic, but if we are truly looking at the value of the lyric, shouldn't it be regardless of who performed the music?   If I were an author I would feel slighted if half of my creative body of work were dismissed because it was released via a different band, publisher or other means.  Are his solo lyrics no less valid or valuable as a form of written expression than those he wrote for DT? 

But yeah, I get it.  This is a DT forum, and you folks just want to focus on the DT related things you know about.

I'm looking at it from an artists perspective and pointing out that this poll is an incomplete evaluation of JLB's creative output.  But you already know that.  Same could be said for the KM poll (for those of you who appreciate his Chroma Key and other lyrics). 

I guess I'm just a formalist and like to broaden the paradigm wherever possible.  Even with informal polls.