- john petrucci
[studio demo, available on the cd single for the song "lie". ]
[additional verse on this version, starting at 03:37, is kevin ]

[moore's last lyrical contribution to dream theater. ]
[a live version is also available on the fan club christmas cd 1998.]


If i'd started from the top
And worked my way down
There'd be no reason

To live forever
To live forever


The starvation has turned
Me outside in
And the wind has blown

Me halfway across the world
Across the world


Why was i born
In an age of distrust
I'd offered some change

For a photograph

It will always stay the same [**a**]

You will always be the same

Until i saw the desire for revenge

My heart never once went astray
As long as i have to die in the attempt
Then there is no reason

To live forever

I found you where [03:37]

They left you there
A passing word that's gone forever


And searching my memory for answers
I saw the words of a letter you wrote
She said 'you don't have to live forever,

You don't want to live forever.'
And everything's changing now,
I don't want to live forever.


[alternate ending - (live in tokyo home video)]
[beginning at **a** above. ]

It will always stay the same
Always be the same


Until i saw the desire for revenge
My heart never once went astray
As long as i have to die in the attempt

Then there is no reason
To live forever


Until i saw the desire for revenge
As long as i have to die in the attempt
If i had to charge the attack

Let me
No reason
No reason

No reason
No reason
To live forever


[alternate ending - (studio acoustic version - "subconscious" cd)]
[recorded as james labrie's vocal audition in 1990. ]

[beginning at **a** above. ]
It will always stay the same
Always be the same


Until i show desire for revenge
My heart never once went astray

As long as i have to die in the attempt
Then there'd be no reason
To live forever


Until i show desire for revenge
As long as i have to die in the attempt
As long as i have to die in the attempt
Then there'd be no reason

No reason
No reason
To live forever
To live forever
'this just in from baghdad... seven patriot missiles

Have been spotted above cuba.'