The spirit carries on

El disco Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a memory tal vez sea el disco más significativo para mí por varios motivos: porque pertenece a Dream Theater la banda a la que más admiro, porque musicalmente es un disco intenso, porque es un disco conceptual con una historia desarrollada de principio a fin, porque tal vez sea el mejor disco que han hecho hasta la fecha y porque el 18 de Abril del año 2000 les vi en Madrid tocando este disco en su totalidad y del tirón y me quedé simplemente acojonao.

Resulta altamente recomendable escuchar el disco entero y meterse en la historia.

Como pequeña muestra aquí presento una de las canciones y que constituye un auténtico himno: The spirit carries on. La actuación corresponde a la celebración del 20 aniversario de la banda en el Radio City Music Hall de Nueva York el día 1 de abril del 2006 y está extraído del doble DVD Score. Aquí se puede apreciar todo el poderío de la banda a pesar de ser una canción lenta. En posteriores entregas iré mostrando otras vertientes más duras y virtuosas de ellos.

Hoy el planeta acústico se llena de espíritus que perduran al ritmo de suaves melodías.

The Spirit Carries On

Music by Dream Theater

Lyrics by John Petrucci

Nicholas:

Where did we come from?

Why are we here?

Where do we go when we die?

What lies beyond

And what lay before?

Is anything certain in life?

They say, "Life is too short,"

"The here and the now"

And "You're only given one shot"

But could there be more,

Have I lived before,

Or could this be all that we've got?

If I die tomorrow

I'd be allright

Because I believe

That after we're gone

The spirit carries on

I used to be frightened of dying

I used to think death was the end

But that was before

I'm not scared anymore

I know that my soul will transcend

I may never find all the answers

I may never understand why

I may never prove

What I know to be true

But I know that I still have to try

If I die tomorrow

I'd be allright

Because I believe

That after we're gone

The spirit carries on

Victoria:

"Move on, be brave

Don't weep at my grave

Because I am no longer here

But please never let

Your memory of me disappear"

Nicholas:

Safe in the light that surrounds me

Free of the fear and the pain

My questioning mind

Has helped me to find

The meaning in my life again

Victoria's real

I finally feel

At peace with the girl in my dreams

And now that I'm here

It's perfectly clear

I found out what all of this means

If I die tomorrow

I'd be allright

Because I believe

That after we're gone

The spirit carries on