To Live Forever Lyrics by Dream Theater

To Live Forever

- john petrucci
[studio demo, available on the cd single for the song "lie". ]
[additional verse on this version, starting at 03:37, is kevin ]
[moores last lyrical contribution to dream theater.]
[a live version is also available on the fan club christmas cd 1998.]

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[**a**]
You will always be the same

Until I saw the desire for revenge
My heart never once went astray
As long as I have to die in the attempt
Then there is no reason
To live forever

I found you where [03:37]
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 have to live forever,
You dont want to live forever.
And everythings changing now,
I dont want to live forever.

[alternate ending - [live in tokyo home video]]
[beginning at **a** above. ]
It will always stay the same
Always be the same

Until I saw the desire for revenge
My heart never once went astray
As long as I have to die in the attempt
Then there is no reason
To live forever

Until I saw the desire for revenge
As long as I have to die in the attempt
If I had to charge the attack
Let me
No reason
No reason
No reason
No reason
To live forever

[alternate ending - [studio acoustic version - "subconscious" cd]]
[recorded as james labries vocal audition in 1990. ]
[beginning at **a** above. ]
It will always stay the same
Always be the same

Until I show desire for revenge
My heart never once went astray
As long as I have to die in the attempt
Then thered be no reason
To live forever

Until I show desire for revenge
As long as I have to die in the attempt
As long as I have to die in the attempt
Then thered be no reason
No reason
No reason
To live forever
To live forever
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