Absolutely. I think it's easily their best "epic", and a perfect album closer. While a song has never made me cry, the last section of IT is the closest I've ever gotten. Plus there's the easter egg (I still wish this got played live somehow).
I've been close to tears from it as well. It's like my emotions are amplified and can't fit inside me anymore so they want to leak out my eyes. LOL
What a damn good song.
It seems the last section of IT really gets a lot of listeners I guess because it is something a lot of people can related too!!
It is because everyhuman being has faced strugles,pain and the fear of death, so the Melody and the lyrics of that final part really hits home.
And it really fits as the Finale of the Song!! so it brings some sort of closure!!
I think the message is never give up no matter how difficult your situation no matter how hopeless once.
Never give up because you will never know!!!!
Just like Eren Busbu he is just a college guy in Turkey who loves Prog Metal and Dream Theater he just pursued his career in Music and made that school project a symphony Cover of Six degrees of Inner turbulence and Ovtavarium.
Then one day Jordan Rudess saw the Video in Youtube,
Then years later he conducts the Orchestra at Beyond the fourth wall, that Orchestral Middle section is like a tribute to him!!
Just look at it this way he just started as fan of DT, how many times that has happened that a big fan of a band then gets hired to arrange and conduct the orchestra for the band he always loved!!
It is just awesome.