My abridged version is probably the longest of them all, I just cut some things here and there and removed the songs I liked least:
01 - Descent of the NOMACS (1:10)
02 - Dystopian Overture (4:33)
03 - The Gift of Music (4:00)
04 - The Answer (1:52)
05 - A Better Life (4:39)
06 - Lord Nafaryus (3:28)
07 - A Savior in the Square (4:13)
08 - When Your Time Has Come (4:19)
09 - Act of Faythe (3:54)
10 - Three Days (3:44)
11 - Brother, Can You Hear Me? (5:11)
12 - A Life Left Behind (4:00)
13 - Ravenskill (6:01)
14 - Chosen (4:32)
15 - A Tempting Offer (4:19)
16 - A New Beginning (4:58)
17 - The Road to Revolution (3:35)
18 - Moment of Betrayal (5:48)
19 - The Path that Divides (4:46)
20 - The Walking Shadow (1:58)
21 - My Last Farewell (3:44)
22 - Losing Faythe (3:54)
23 - Hymn of a Thousand Voices (3:38)
24 - Our New World (4:12)
25 - Astonishing (5:51)
1h42'19''.
I've left the song lengths to show the cuts here and there I did, basically they are:
- Dystopian Overture: cut the little noodling back and forth between the single instruments in the middle of the song, I felt it was the only self-indulgent part of the overture
- Act of Faythe: removed the entire intro, it starts right with the piano
- A Life Left Behind: cut almost entirely the intro (yeah, I know, blasphemy) and the choruses in the middle, to get faster to the "I'll plan to return well disguised" section
- A New Beginning: this will probably get me banned
, but I cut a lot of the outro solo, I've done a long fade out before the final Petrucci solo kicks in
- Moments of Betrayal: cut the whole coming-from-Entr'acte intro, it starts right when the instruments come in
- The Walking Shadow: cut a bit of the section that leads to the final part, when you hear the steps of Faythe
- Losing Faythe: removed all the cheesy crying at the beginning, to start right when James sings