Dream Theater - The Shattered Fortress








Freedom - calls my name

Serenity – keeps me sane

Happiness – it dulls the pain

Honor - to save my fate

Hoping - to run away

Willingness - to understand

Justice - for you not to judge

Courtesy – for all to start

Kindness – it's not that hard

Self-restraint – the self impaired

Inventory – my daily bread

Analysis - and then you're gone



Look in the mirror

What do you see?

The Shattered Fortress

That once burned me



Faithful ascent

Through darkest fires

I've found the path

To take me higher



You're smart enough 

For me to trust

Go live your life now 

Just keep these steps

In your life

And you'll know how



If you’re not sure

Ask yourself

"Have I done to them

As I would have them

Do to me?"



Look in the mirror

What's that you see?

The Shattered Fortress 

Fly now, be free!



Faithful ascent

Through darkest fires

I've found the path

To take me higher



I once thought it better

To be right

But now I have finally seen the light

Sometimes you've got to be wrong

And learn from mistakes

I live with serenity now

Not self-righteous hate



(Help me be a channel of Thy peace

That were there is hatred, I may bring love

That were there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness

That were there is discord, I may bring harmony

That were there is error, I may bring truth

That were there is doubt, I may bring faith)



Now that you can see all you have done

(That were there is despair, I may bring hope

That were there is shadow, I may bring light)



It's time to take that step into the kingdom

(That were there is sadness, I may bring joy)



All your sins will help to make you strong

(That I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted

That I may seek to understand, rather than to be understood)



And help you break right through the prison wall

(That I may seek to love, rather than to be loved,

for it is by self-forgetting that one finds,

it is by forgiving that one is forgiven)



Keep all of me 

The desires that once burned me deep inside

Help me live today 

And help to give me grace 

To carry out your ways



I am ready, help me be all I can be

I am ready, help guide me and keep me straight



I am responsible when anyone, anywhere 

Reaches out for help, I want my hand to be there

I am responsible when anyone, anywhere 

Reaches out for help, I want my hand to be there