Music Library - Dream Theater

Biography

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name "Majesty" by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band. Though a number of lineup changes followed, the three original members remain today along with James LaBrie and Jordan Rudess.

Dream Theater has become a successful progressive rock band, despite the drop in popularity of the genre since the mid-1970s. Although the band has had a few successful hits (notably "Pull Me Under" in the early 1990s, which received extensive MTV rotation), they have mostly stayed underground for their career, feeding off support from their fans.

Discography

• When Dream and Day Unite
• Images and Words
• Awake
• A Change Of Seasons
• Falling into Infinity
• Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
• Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
• Train of Thought
• Octavarium
• Systematic Chaos
• Live at Budokan
• Score (DVD)

As I Am

Don't
Tell me what's in
Tell me how to write
Don't tell me how to win
This fight

Isn't your life
It isn't your right
To take the only thing that's
Mine


Proven over time
It's over your head
Don't try to read between the
Lines

Are clearly defined
Never lose sight of
Something you believe in

Takin' in
the view from the outside
Feeling like the underdog
Watching through the window I'm on the
outside
Living like the underdog

I've been trying to justify you
In the end I
will just defy you

To those who understand, I extend my hand
To the doubtful I
demand, take me as I am
Not under your command, I know where I stand
I won't change to fit
your man, Take me as I am

As I am

Still
Running uphill
Swimming
against the current
I wish I weren't so
Fucked
Feels like I'm stuck
Lost in a
sea of mediocrity

''Slow down,
You're thinking too much
Where is your soul?''

You cannot touch
The way I
Play
Or tell me what to say
You're in the way

Of all that I believe in

Takin' in the view from the outside
Feeling like the
underdog
Watching through the window I'm on the outside
Living like the underdog
I've
been wasting my breath on you
Open minds will descend upon you

To those who
understand, I extend my hand
To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am
Not under your
command, I know where I stand
I won't change to fit your plan, take me as I am

Don't Tell Me: Não me diga

Isn't your life: Não é sua vida

It isn't your right: Não é seu direito

To those who understand: Para aqueles que entendem

I extend my hand: Eu estendo minha mão

To the doubtful: Para os duvidosos

Take me As I Am: Me aceite como eu sou

Underdog: Oprimido

Running: Correndo

Wish: Desejo

Against: Contra

Mediocrity: Mediocridade

We think this song talks about the rebellion of a boy tired of doing things the way of others.