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Paralyzed
Distance Over Time
Length 4:17
Working title Song 2
Release date February 7, 2019
Lyrics John Petrucci
Music Petrucci, John Myung, Jordan Rudess, Mike Mangini
First live performance Balboa Theatre, San Diego, CA, USA, on Mar. 20, 2019
Total live plays 45
Recorded Yonderbarn
Other appearances Distant Memories
Previous song Untethered Angel
Next song Fall Into The Light

Paralyzed is the second track off of Dream Theater's fourteenth studio album, Distance Over Time. It was released as the third and final single off the album on February 7, 2019.

John Petrucci recorded this song using a 6-string baritone guitar tuned to B♭-E♭-A♭-D♭-F-B♭.

Lyrics[]

The anger
The pressure
You're choking down your words again
Feel the nerves set in

Unspoken 
Frustration
They see right through you, paper thin
Like the ghost within

A heart that feels no pain
Addicted to the game
Breaking beneath the strain
I am paralyzed

The stare of
A stranger
Is like a wound that bleeds again
Silent as the dead

The victim
The martyr
Like Daniel in the lion's den
Time and time again

A heart that feels no pain
Addicted to the game
Breaking beneath the strain
I am paralyzed

I am paralyzed

A heart that feels no pain
Addicted to the game
Relentless mental drain
What do you stand to gain

Viewing life through such a narrow, fractured lens
Will ensure you end up on the losing end
Breaking beneath the strain

I am paralyzed
I am paralyzed
I am paralyzed
I am paralyzed
I am paralyzed