The Root of All Evil

the root of all evil dream theater octavarium music: dream theater lyrics: mike portnoy proud enough for you to call me arrogant greedy enough to be labeled a thief angry enough for me to go and hurt a man cruel enough for me to feel no grief never c

Fly with me on a starlit sky I'll set you free- Yes, it can be A dream unchased is a life at waste Never let them conquer your pride Our love is warm here Like the image of a distant sun This star will always shine And never, ever fade away Fly on-Si

From the heavens I can see the world Hardly moving What could make it turn? Maybe life itself Or could it be love Or God with a gentle shove? I fear what I know, not what I wonder All the weight of the world on my back finally kills me But I know tha

Beware the beast of man For he's the devils pawn Alone among god's primates He kills for sport, lust or greed The sacred scrolls... The truth unfolds... Shun him - the beast of man Let him not breed in great numbers For he will make a dessert of his

Spiritual Isolation - The ultimate frustration Scratch the surface, tuurn another page The ugly truth or another pretty lie You deceived me, I believed you Why did everything go... So wrong... For so long... So the truth comes out at last I'm dead in

This liquid vision of euphoria Living a life on borrowed time Paying the price of immortality Desperately avoiding our fate Lead me through the halls of tortured souls Alone, forlorn... human dignity dethroned Forevermore - A life never ending Time s

Weak and sick I crawl In the dust of past mistakes Leaving for the darkness Of tears and cold heartaches Suffer in this grief Of forever burning hate The ashes of my life By the torment you create (Chorus:) On my knees... remembering The wasted years

Standing at the bridge of destiny So long since I tasted fear Lurking in the darkest holes Awaiting my minds weakest moment Old words from an old world Against the laws of nature They say the truth is overrated Wall of anger corrupts my thought Stand