Lyrics:

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence



1st Degree - The Glass Prison [13:52]

music by Myung, Petrucci, Portnoy, Rudess

lyrics by Mike Portnoy



I. REFLECTION



Cunning, Baffling, Powerful

Been beaten to a pulp

Vigorous, Irresistable

Sick and tired and laid low

Dominating, Invincible

Black-out, loss of control

Overwhelming, Unquenchable

I'm powerless, have to let go



I can't escape it

It leaves me frail and worn

Can no longer take it

Senses tattered and torn



Hopeless surrender

Obsession's got me beat

Losing the will to live

Admitting complete defeat



Fatal Descent

Spinning around

I've gone too far

To turn back round



Desperate attempt

Stop the progression

At any length

Lift this obsession



Crawling to my glass prison

A place where no one knows

My secret lonely world begins



So much safer here

A place where I can go

To forget about my daily sins



Life here in my glass prison

A place I once called home

Fall in nocturnal bliss again



Chasing a long lost friend

I no longer can control

Just waiting for this hopelessness to end





II. RESTORATION



Run - fast from the wreckage of the past

A shattered glass prison wall behind me

Fight - past walking through the ashes

A distant oasis before me



Cry - desperate crawling on my knees

Begging God to please stop the insanity

Help me - I'm trying to believe

Stop wallowing in my own self pity



'We've been waiting for you my friend

The writing's been on the wall

All it takes is a little faith

You know you're the same as us all'



Help me - I can't break out this prison all alone

Save me - I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own

Heal me - I can't restore my sanity alone



Enter the door

Desperate

Fighting no more

Help me restore

To my sanity

At this temple of hope



I need to learn

Teach me how

Sorrow to burn

Help me return

To humanity

I'll be fearless and thorough

To enter this temple of hope



Believe

Transcend the pain

Living the life

Humility

Opened my eyes

This new odyssey

Of rigorous honesty



Serenity

I never knew

Soundness of mind

Helped me to find

Courage to change

All the things that I can



'We'll help you perform this miracle

But you must set your past free

You dug the hole, but you can't bury your sole

Open your mind and you'll see'



Help me - I can't break out this prison all alone

Save me - I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own

Heal me - I can't restore my sanity alone





III. REVELATION



Way off in the distance I saw a door

I tried to open

I tried forcing with all of my will and still [NOTE: the 'and' is

actually ]

The door wouldn't open [replaced with 'but' in this

line]



Unable to trust in my faith

I turned and walked away

I looked around, felt a chill in the air

Took my will and turned it over



The glass prison which once held me is now gone ['now' is not heard in this

line ]

A long lost fortress

Armed only with liberty

And the key of my willingness



Fell down on my knees and prayed

'Thy will be done'

I turned around, saw a light shining through

The door was wide open