A Broken Man

Album: Parasomnia (2025)
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  • Feel the heat intensify
    Steel piercing the skin
    Sky on fire, electrified
    War inside begins
    Wrought with guilt, abandoning
    Comrades lying still
    Soulless eyes stare back at me
    Broken, sick I feel

    What of the dreams?
    A haunting curse
    Toxic and bleak, I'm getting worse
    Dead inside
    Though I've tried, I know I am
    A broken man

    Suffering, suffering inside and shaking
    I'm sweating at night
    Just trying to find an answer
    To feel comfortable with, what um
    Like what did I witness?

    Swaying, praying
    Trying to escape
    Laughing, crying
    More than one can take
    Haunting, taunting
    Will not let me be
    Hypnotizing
    And not letting go of me

    Stranglehold, dreams unfold
    Helpless, can't break free
    Memories, blood red sky
    Rain down on me
    Battle cry, war inside
    Senseless tragedy
    Shock and awe, numb and raw
    Suffocating me

    (Nightmare) will this never end?
    (Flashback) I'm unravelling
    Misery can't break free
    Wasted lives cast aside

    What of the dreams?
    A haunting curse
    Toxic and bleak, I'm getting worse
    Dead inside
    Though I've tried, I know I am
    A broken man

    What of the dreams?
    What can I learn? (What can I learn?)
    Nor can erase, forever burn (forever burn)
    What of the dreams?
    Inflamed and torn (inflamed and torn)
    And now I wish I had never been born (never been born)
    All is lost, I've done all I can, I swear
    This cross is mine to bare

    Broken man, only one remedy
    He waits patiently
    Peaceful and free for eternity Writer/s: James Labrie, John Myung, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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