| The Answer Lies Within | |
| Octavarium | |
| Length | 5:26 |
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| Release date | {{{Release}}} |
| Lyrics | John Petrucci |
| Music | Dream Theater |
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| Recorded | The Hit Factory |
| Other appearances | Score, Romavarium (fan CD) |
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| Next song | {{{Next song}}} |
With Octavarium, Dream Theater attempted to produce more concise, retrained, slightly commercial songs, as they felt it was something that they had yet to properly address as a band. The Answer Lies Within is one of those songs. John Petrucci has said in interviews that he wrote the song for his children.
Every track on Octavarium is written in a different key, to represent an entire octave. The Answer Lies Within is the song written in G.
Trivia
- Around the end of the second chorus, a brief melody of "Medicate" (the second movement of Octavarium) could be heard.