You know, this is the first ever Dream Theater song I've come close to crying. Granted, I never understood the meaning of the song before so when I first listened to it, it had me puzzled.
When I searched the history of this song and realized that it was to Petrucci's sick dad, it got me. Whenever I listen to epic Dream Theater parts: "I will liiiive oooon!", "So I'm moving on.....", among others, it gives me the shivers. Then I get ecstatic for some reason.
Easily one of the greatest vocal albums by James Labrie, though it is tied with Awake. Jay Beckenstein's sax gets me every time and still sends me the shivers. Love the piano playing on this one and overall, an extremely, extremely strong song given to us by Dream Theater.