Or maybe like TOWHTSTS and A Nightmare to Remember...
Huh? I must've missed that one - did the band ever make any sort of connection to those 2 songs?
JP did.. I remember him saying it in an interview (and also in Lifting Shadows IIRC).. Both songs are about the car crash he and his family had when he was a kid..
Got a link to the interview or know where in LS he talks about that? Never knew that.
Sorry, but no I don't
.. The interview was from several years ago (couldn't worded it differently), and I don't have the book right now to look for that part (and if I had it that would still be very hard to find anyways)..
I thought it was common knowledge though (some in this forum -like in the appreciation thread about the song- have mentioned the similarities its lyrical content has with ANTR's).. Anyways, now that I searched on it, I think I might be not so spot on about it.. Found this comment in
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/85692/:
<<John Petrucci was interviewed about this song saying that it's about about a guy driving late at night who is starting to fall asleep behind the wheel. The character then slips into a dream that only lasts a moment, but in his dream he sees how his love ones would be affected by his death. By the end of the song he snaps back into consciousness and as JP puts it: "gets his shit together.">>So yeah, maybe it was just my interpretation of what JP said which lead me to think that the song was precisely about that car crash rather than he himself saying it was about it.. But let be honest, whether intencionally or not, or explicitly or not, I think is obvious he was at least inspired by the accident..