Dream Theater

She can't stop pacing
She never felt so alive
Her thoughts are racing
Set on overdriveIt takes a village
  This she knows is true
  They're expecting her
  And she's got work to doHe helplessly stands by
  It's meaningless to try
  As he rubs his red-rimmed eyes
  He says I've never seen her get this badEven though she seems so high
  He knows that she can't fly
  And when she falls out of the sky
  He'll be standing byShe was raised in a small midwestern town
  By a charming and eccentric loving father
  She was praised as the perfect teenage girl
  And everyone thought highly of herAnd she tried everyday
  With endless drive
  To make the grade
  Then one day
  She woke up to find
  The perfect girl
  Had lost her mindOnce barely taking a break
  Now she sleeps the days away
  She helplessly stands by
  It's meaningless to try
  All she wants to do is cry
  No one ever knew she was so sadCause even though she gets so high
  And thinks that she can fly
  She will fall out of the sky
  But in the face of misery
  She found hopefulness
  Feeling better
  She had weathered
  This depressionMuch to her advantage
  She resumed her frantic pace
  Boundless power
  Midnight hour
  She enjoyed the race

Lost in the sky
Clouds roll by and I roll with them
Arrows fly
Seas increase and then fall again
This world is spinning around me
This world is spinning without me
Every day sends future to past
Every breath leaves one less to my last
Watch the sparrow falling
Gives new meaning to it all
If not today nor yet tomorrow then some other day
I'll take seven lives for one
And then my only father's son
As sure as I ever did love him
I am not afraid
This world is spinning around me
The whole world keeps spinning around me
All life is future to past
Every breath leaves me one less to my last
Pull me under Pull me under
Pull me under I'm not afraid
All that I feel is honor and spite
All I can do is to set it right
Dust fills my eyes
Clouds roll by and I roll with them
Centuries cry
Orders fly and I fall again
This world is spinning inside me
The whole world is spinning inside of me
Every day sends future to past
Every step brings me closer to my last
Pull me under Pull me under
Pull me under I'm not afraid
Living my life too much in the sun
Only until your will is done
Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt

Don't
Tell me what's in
Tell me how to write, donÂ’t tell me how to win
This fight
IsnÂ’t your life
It isnÂ’t your right to take the only thing thatÂ’s
Mine
Proven over time
ItÂ’s over your head
DonÂ’t try to read between the
Lines
Are clearly defined
Never lose sight of something you believe in
TakinÂ’  in the view from the outside
Feeling like the underdog
Watching through the window IÂ’m on the outside
Living like the underdog
IÂ’ve been trying to justify you
In the end I will just defy you
To those who understand
I extend my hand
To the doubtful I demand
Take me as I am
Not under your command
I know where I stand
I wonÂ’t change to fit your plan
Take me as I am
As I am
Still
Running uphill
Swimming against the current I wish I werenÂ’t so
Fucked
Feels like IÂ’m stuck
Lost in a sea of mediocrity
Slow down, 
YouÂ’re thinking too much
Where is your soul? you cannot touch the way I
Play
Or tell me what to say
YouÂ’re in the way of all that I believe in
TakinÂ’  in the view from the outside
Feeling like the underdog
Watching through the window IÂ’m on the outside
Living like the underdog
IÂ’ve been wasting my breath on you 
Open minds will descend upon you
To those who understand
I extend my hand
To the doubtful I demand
Take me as I am
Not under your command
I know where I stand
I wonÂ’t change to fit your plan
Take me as I am
To those who understand
I extend my hand
To the doubtful I demand
Take me as I am
Not under your command
I know where I stand
I wonÂ’t change to fit your plan
Take me as I am
As I am, yeah
As I am