[98] 7. Symphony X - Through The Looking Glass

 [1998] 7. Symphony X - Through The Looking Glass 

Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus ('98, 4th)

1. Smoke and Mirrors [6:08]

2. Church of the Machine [8:58]

3. Sonata (Instrumental) [1:25]   

4. In the Dragon's Den [3:59]

5. Through the Looking Glass (Part I, II, III) [13:07]

6. The Relic [5:03]

7. Orion - The Hunter [6:57]

8. Lady of the Snow [7:08]

Russell Allen - Vocals, Lyrics (1, 2, 4, 6-8)

Michael Romeo - Guitars, Sitar, Mini-Harp, Vocals (backing), Songwriting, Lyrics (1, 2, 4, 5)

Michael Pinnella - Keyboards, Vocals (backing), Songwriting (2, 5, 6, 8)

Thomas Miller - Bass, Songwriting (1, 2, 4-7), Lyrics

Thomas Walling - Drums 

5. Through the Looking Glass (Part I, II, III)

Part I

Look to the other side, reach the undefined

Curious to what she doesn't know

Step through the empty air, reveal what wasn't there

A fantasy-her looking glass world

Is it as it seems? Or just a dream within a dream

(dream within, dream within a dream)

Like she's been here before, locked behind the door

Held within the grasp of mystic hands

Everything's so strange, the same but rearranged

Through a bird's eye view-Can it all be true?

The final answer she seeks, with the three to be crowned Queen

Essence of rule divides the land-YEAH!

Dark shape, above in the sky, captures her prismatic eye

Again she walks in wonder, With no, with no tearful good-byes

Part II

Alice...Alice...Run Alice...Run

And there she stood, in misery

Searching for the final ring within

A dream, (dream within a dream)

Dream within a dream 

"I'm not afraid..."

Part III

Scepter in hand-all the numbers so deceiving

The small dreaming child who wears the crown

Watches the pieces falling down

Like knights in the game-her next move is so unsure

'Waken the Queen of Nevermore

Hidden behind the royal doors

White on her right, Red on her left

Talking in riddles, on ears fallen deaf

"Stop with all the lies", all the questions so confusing

Answer the riddles they deny, losing hope, the child cries

Dream on...

Do you believe...all the things that you're seeing are true?

The start's where the end's leading you

Do you believe...all's as twisted as one would perceive?

Seek the answers...and soon you'll believe

The royal child, in a rage of desperate fury

Shattering all that lies before, screaming dolls fall to the floor

Now remove the masque, that's obscuring this dimension

Illusions so clear to me now, her invention is unwound

Escape the dream- like an unwritten book

There at my feet-lies the knight, the queen and the rook

Dream on...

Do you believe...all the things that you're seeing are true?

The start's where the end's leading you

Do you believe...all's as twisted as one would perceive?

Seek the answers...and soon you'll believe

Dream on...

Do you believe...all the things that you're seeing are true?

The start's where the end's leading you

Do you believe...all's as twisted as one would perceive?

Seek the answers...and soon you'll believe