beyond this life

• fatal tragedy nin sonunda müziğin bitip, "hypnotherapist" in: "now it is time to see how you died. remember that death is not the end but only a transition." demesinden sonra hayvan gibi başlaması şarkıdan alınan tadı kat kat arttırmış... tam bir gaz parçası...
• atonal bir bolum iceren %100 deneysel parca.
• kendileri tarafından live at budokan albümlerinde kısmen coverlanan ve şarkının süresinin 19:37'ye uzadığı, parça.
• 9.05-9.25 saniyeleri arasında inanılmaz derecede frank zappa'nın tarzını andıran dream thater şarkısı.
• dream theater'ın scene four şeklinde taglediği güzide şarkının sözleri şöyledir:
  
  [headline:] "murder, young girl killed
  desperate shooting at echoe`s hill
  dreadful ending, killer died
  evidently suicide"
  
  a witness heard a horrifying sound
  he ran to find a woman dead and
  lying on the ground
  
  standing by her was a man
  nervous, shaking, gun in hand
  witness says he tried to help
  but he`d turned the weapon on himself
  
  his body fell across that poor young girl
  after shouting out in vain
  the witness ran to call for assistance
  a sad close to a broken love affair
  
  our deeds have traveled far
  what we have been is what we are
  
  she wanted love forever
  but he had another plan
  he fell into an evil way
  she had to let him down
  she said "i can`t love a wayward man"
  
  she may have found a reason to forgive
  if he had only tried to change
  was their fatal meeting prearranged?
  
  had a violent struggle taken place?
  there was every sign that lead there
  witness found a switchblade on the ground
  was the victim unaware?
  they continued to investigate
  they found a note in the killer`s pocket
  it could have been a suicide letter
  maybe he had lost her love
  
  i feel there`s only one thing left to do
  i'd sooner take my life away than live with losing you
  
  our deeds have traveled far
  what we have been is what we are
  
  all that we learn this time
  (what we have been is what we are)
  is carried beyond this life
• kanımca, scenes from a memory albümündeki tek sert parçadır ve en güzel parçalardan da biridir. james labrie'nin vokali iyi hoştur, petrucci ise her zamanki gibi yardırmıştır.
• mükemmel ötesi gaz parça. 4 mevsim misali tek şarkıda her duyguyu yasatır insana..
• live at budokanversiyonu bence 2000lerin basindan beri dream theaterin yaptigi en orijinal, ilginc muzik.
• allahsız bir dream theater parçası.