Good Dream Theater lyrics?

[wolfandwolfandwolf]

I think Everything on Awake except of Mirror/Lie are the best lyrically.

[54_diplomats]

^ The Mirror is pretty good lyrically imo.

[?]

Make him listen to some Kevin Moore lyrics like 6:00 and Space-Dye Vest, he could like them.

[BlobVanDam]

Just tell your friend to listen to music properly.

[jcmistat]

Just tell your friend to listen to music properly.

[Ruba]

Wait for Sleep? 

In with the ashes
Or up with the smoke from the fire
With wings up in heaven
Or here, lying in bed
Palm of her hand to my head
Now and forever curled
In my and the of the world

And yes, Awake is a lyrical masterpiece. The Mirror    .

[Sycsa]

Just tell your friend to listen to music properly.

This. On a side note, why do you even care what other people listen to?

[phantom]

These are a few good examples (IMO):

Lines in the Sand
Take the Time
ACOS --> OBVIOUSLY(!)

That's for a start...

[Tomislav95]

The Count of Tuscany

[Lucidity]

Just tell your friend to listen to music properly.

This. On a side note, why do you even care what other people listen to?

Because I feel like he has the potential to love DT, and I want to guide him there.

[senecadawg2]

If he needs really good lyrics for him to enjoy it, then chances are he won't ever enjoy a lot of DT. I think I can speak for many people in saying that the lyrics really aren't the biggest draw in DT music. Some songs have great lyrics (Myung's, Voices, Disappear, ACOS, and a couple others), but the majority really aren't very special.

[userx]

I have a feeling that your friend had decided beforehand that he doesn't like DT lyrics because he doesn't like DT for whatever reason. I just went to check some radiohead lyrics and that gave me that idea because I found them to be inferior to some of DT's lyrics, moreover, I found them amateurish and not musical at all
secondly, it also seems to me that he is looking for lyrics with a socio-political message = "meaning". that's rubbish to me and pretentious because who can have such a high opinion of themselves to instruct the world of how things should be. Lyrics should be beutiful because the purpose of art is to be beautiful and not to be a soc-pol manifesto with questionable plausibility and credibility

[MoraWintersoul]

secondly, it also seems to me that he is looking for lyrics with a socio-political message = "meaning". that's rubbish to me and pretentious because who can have such a high opinion of themselves to instruct the world of how things should be.

Probably John Petrucci and James LaBrie, since they both wrote those

[hefdaddy42]

Just tell your friend to listen to music properly.

This. On a side note, why do you even care what other people listen to?

Because I feel like he has the potential to love DT, and I want to guide him there.

But lyrics have never, EVER been DT's strong point.  It's been the musicianship.  If he prefers lyrics over musicianship, he doesn't have the potential to love DT.

[MoraWintersoul]

Anyway (sorry for the double post, but I felt like this needs to stand apart from what I just wrote), to all the people that ask Lucidity why does he care or tell him to tell his friend to listen to music properly - I don't know, those are all valid points but as long as he asked for help, let's help the dude out

I rarely try to "convert" my friends anymore, but if there's something that I know they'd really really like, I always try to do that, because good people shouldn't miss out on good things. Furthermore, he's 14, and his friend is probably around the same age - is there anyone here who didn't have at least some bad listening habits back then? In DT's catalog there's bound to be something he likes, whether metal or prog, so it can send him off on a wonderful musical journey, and he'll also learn to look beyond just lyrics sometimes. So that's one musical prejudice stamped out. And if he dislikes everything, he'll come out of it as a more patient listener, which is a wonderful trait to have.

Still, if your friend hates DT, don't sweat it, it's no big deal, it doesn't matter. Only a couple of people close to me actually like Dream Theater, and they've only started liking it recently; as for my obsession with not-really-mainstream-prog, I've got no one in "real life" who can accompany me on that journey. But it doesn't matter. They still love me, even if they think my taste in music is weird as fuck

[Cedar redaC]

*really long but profound post*

[Tomislav95]

I've got three friends that like DT. Two of them listen to it sometimes and one would name DT as one of favorite bands.