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Points: 416 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:53
Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Disagree!

Portnoy and Petrucci write great, deep and intelligent lyrics... Not as awesome as some other bands do, but still not terribly embarrassing. 2 bad LaBrie doesn't contribute much.... I really liked the lyrics for Sacrificed Sons...

What songs do you mean in particular, Lamb?

A Change of Seasons has good lyrics, in my opinion, the rest are just terrible. Train of Thought - Everything is bad, Octavarium - Almost everything is bad, Awake - Some nice parts but still mostly bad, Falling into infinity - everything is bad, Images - some slightly OK parts, but alot of crap.... it goes on and on for me. I just really don't pay much attention to lyrics ussualy but their lyrics is so annoying, it just caught my attention. Makes me regret I ever read the booklet :\
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Points: 3830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:47
Dream Theater actually write fairly good lyrics.  Better than 99% of power metal, and probably mid-range as far as neo-prog goes.

However, almost any band under the sun has embarrassing lyrics next to, say, Fish-era Marillion.

John Myung wrote a -great- song about HIV...  here's a bit from Learning To Live:

Once again we dance in the
crowd
At times a step away
From a common fear that's all
spread out
It won't listen to what you say
Once you're touched you stand
alone
To face the bitter fight
Once I reached for love
And now I reach for life
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Points: 533 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:45

I Dont really like them that much anymore but when i did me and my friend always thought that the music was great but james labrie destroyed some of the sound and made fun of him we considered shooting him at the show but we thought that would be a little violent (jk)

I think they are to A.O.R influenced
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Points: 15 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:38

That is basically the reason I don't like them. Too cheesy
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:36

Originally posted by Moatilliatta Moatilliatta wrote:

Meh, some of them are poor, but some of them are really good. I really don't feel like digging up some examples right now.

I'm of the same opinion
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Points: 4928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:34

Disagree!

Portnoy and Petrucci write great, deep and intelligent lyrics... Not as awesome as some other bands do, but still not terribly embarrassing. 2 bad LaBrie doesn't contribute much.... I really liked the lyrics for Sacrificed Sons...

What songs do you mean in particular, Lamb?
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Points: 3083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:32
Meh, some of them are poor, but some of them are really good. I really don't feel like digging up some examples right now.
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Points: 416 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:25

I think so. As much as I love this band, their lyrics is just sad. Often poorly written and ussualy carry themes you would expect a 13 year-old that thinks he knows things about the world to write about, not mature people.

Do you agree or disagree? If you disagree give us an example of some good lyrics! If you agree give us an example of embaressing lyrics

 



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