Full Album: Dream Theater

He screams: “I just want to stop!”

Nicholas puts on headphones. whispers: “Close your eyes and begin to relax.” He sees a past life: Victoria, 1928, a murder. He is her lover, Julian. But the hypnotist’s voice cracks: “You are not Julian. You are not Nicholas.”

He puts the record on again. But this time, before the music starts, he hears a whisper in the groove:

And a voice — James LaBrie’s — sings softly from the speaker: “Open your eyes, Nicholas…” dream theater full album

But the photo is dated tomorrow.

plays. He is suddenly in a therapist’s office. The therapist has no face. She says: “You created this album to punish yourself. You are not a man. You are a melody stuck in a broken player.” Part Three: The Root of All Evil (Train of Thought / Octavarium)

The needle lifts. Silence. He is back in the white room. The album cover in his hands now shows his own face — young, old, dead, alive. He turns it over. The tracklist has only one song: He screams: “I just want to stop

Then — silence. A single, low organ note.

He does.

The song segues into He sees his brother (who died in a car crash he caused). The brother plays piano in a burning church. Nicholas reaches for him. The keys turn to ash. But the hypnotist’s voice cracks: “You are not Julian

The Count of Tuscany’s Endless Sleep

He swallows it. Instead of death, he hears — his own fans screaming for encores. He is the prisoner of their applause. He must perform his own execution forever. Part Four: The Shattered Fortress (Systematic Chaos / Black Clouds & Silver Linings)