I had a thought yesterday that I figured I'd share with you guys. I figured that, by playing it in Tarrytown, Jordan and James have perfectly absolved DT of putting SDV into live rotation if they don't want to play it.
Well, not that they need an excuse if they don't want to play it, but it's just a perfect situation. Now the song has been performed live by members of Dream Theater, but not on a Dream Theater concert, which is perfect for the crowd who doesn't like the song, or for the crowd who thinks it's sacrilege to perform it without Kevin. On the other hand, the song is not "untouchable" anymore, and James' speech before the song confirmed that MP's opinion that KM and the song are totally overrated is not shared by all members of the band. So it's just a perfect situation for a song like that.
I think the reason why they still avoided it in the previous tour is that it would prove a bit of a problem to them to find a place for it in the set, because, let's face it, even us who adore the song think it has a big downer vibe. And the song kind of stands for itself - even though, by mood, it totally fits Awake, even placed in the end it sounds like an afterthought and not like a part of the flow. So. while a suitable place for it would definitely be in the end of a set, I don't know if DT would like to end a show on such a huge downer.
But I also have the perfect solution for that. If, by any chance, they would have this slower part of the set like the acoustic part in the Dramatic Tour, a part of it, or perhaps the whole two-song or three-song or however long the set could be dedicated to James and Jordan. Just the two of them on stage, like James and John last year. And then SDV could come in the end of that piano/vocal spotlight. Emotional and simple, a nice breather. And then a huge angry metal song could come afterwards, for venting and kicking our nerves into overdrive.