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To Live Forever

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To Live Forever
Lie (album)
Length 4:56
Working title To Live Forever
Release date 1994
Lyrics John Petrucci
Music Dream Theater
First live performance Sundance, Bay Shore, NY, USA on November 25 1988
Total live plays 113
Recorded One On One Studios and Devonshire Studios, 1994
Other appearances Cleaning Out the Closet, Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)
Previous song Space-Dye Vest
Next song Another Day (Live)

To Live Forever is a non-album song by Dream Theater, first recorded during the When Dream and Day Unite sessions. The song has been recorded several times and released on multiple Fan Club CD's and Official Bootlegs including When Dream and Day Reunite where Charlie Dominici appears as a guest singer. The song was initially recorded in E standard with a 6-string guitar, but on the 1994 version, John Petrucci used a 7-string guitar.

There are several known versions of this song :

Lyrics[]

If I'd started from the top
And worked my way down
There'd be no reason
To live forever
To live forever

The starvation has turned
Me outside in
And the wind has blown me
Halfway across the world
Across the world

Why was I born
In an age of distrust
I'd offered some change
For a photograph
It will always stay the same
You will always be the same
Until I saw the desire for revenge
My hunger will waste me to sleep
As long as I have to die in the attempt
Then there is no reason
To live forever

I found you where
They left you there
A passing word that's gone forever
And searching my memory for answers
I saw the words of a letter you wrote
She said "you don't want to live forever,
you don't want to live forever"
And everything's changing now,
I don't want to live forever

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