Can everyone stop bashing any suggestion that a song is related to Portnoy? Or being short with anyone who dares to voice the possibility? Please? It's getting really old. Let's try and have a mature discussion about it, please.
JP has explicitly stated that neither the album's title nor the song lyrics are directly about Mike. That does NOT mean that it still could not have played a role in the shaping of the song...clearly the event was huge in the lives of every band member, and they all have it on their minds. It is possible that it could have triggered some sort of emotional reaction or memory in JP, leading him to write the lyrics based off another subject. It does not mean that the event did not influence him, however.
Some of the lyrics seem like they could apply very well and very beautifully to the situation. Others do not. Again, it could have partly inspired some of the lyrics, perhaps even unintentionally or subconsciously. So everyone, please stop bashing anyone who suggests an association...thank you.
Seriously, this. I love how everyone says "JP said it wasn't about MP" in some interview,
yeah he did, but do you think he would really just come out and say it was?
I think there are lines in this album that are DIRECTLY related to MP. the fact that I can read
the lyrics of TITL and BTS and draw direct comparisons, they OBVIOUSLY would have though about this while writing. BTS, someone closing off a relationship and not saying anything before it
falls apart, TITL saying the grass isn't always greener... ( FFH, seems like JLB's Never Enough to portnoy.
"HAve you ever wished that you were someone else (a nu-metal drummer)
Traded places in your mind, it's only a waste of your time"
"Some choose to live gracefully
some get caught in the maze and lose their way home
this is the life we belong to (DT?)
our gift divine (being talented musicians?)"
How could JP write that and NOT think that we would all draw a possible comparison to MP?