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The song segues into He sees his brother (who died in a car crash he caused). The brother plays piano in a burning church. Nicholas reaches for him. The keys turn to ash.

plays. He is suddenly in a therapist’s office. The therapist has no face. She says: “You created this album to punish yourself. You are not a man. You are a melody stuck in a broken player.” Part Three: The Root of All Evil (Train of Thought / Octavarium)

His father points to the moon. It has a clock face. plays softly. The moon ticks to 9:00 PM again. The second hand switches to forward. Epilogue: Finally Free? dream theater full album

His father appears. They fish on a still lake. His father says: “Son, you died in 1999. A car crash. This album is your coma. Dream Theater wrote it while you slept.”

Nicholas awakens in a white room. He has no memory of how he got there. A clock reads 9:00 PM — but the second hand ticks backward. On a dusty record player sits a single album: Scenes From a Memory . When he plays it, he remembers. But the album won’t stop. It bleeds into every other Dream Theater album, and each song reveals another layer of his looping nightmare. Part One: The Hypnotist’s Needle (Scenes From a Memory) The song segues into He sees his brother

And the album plays again. Forever. “The Dance of Eternity” — but slowed down to half-speed, and buried in the mix is Nicholas’s own heartbeat, recorded live in the operating room, 1999.

He swallows it. Instead of death, he hears — his own fans screaming for encores. He is the prisoner of their applause. He must perform his own execution forever. Part Four: The Shattered Fortress (Systematic Chaos / Black Clouds & Silver Linings) The keys turn to ash

The scene cuts to a funeral. His own. thrashes. He watches his body lowered into earth. But the coffin is a piano. His fingers are tied to the strings. Each dirt clod is a drum hit (Portnoy’s fill, endless).

“You are the dream. The theater is your skull. And we never left the first note of ‘Metropolis.’”

plays. He fights shadow versions of the band — John Petrucci wields a guitar-neck sword, Jordan Rudess throws arpeggios like shuriken. He defeats them. Then “The Best of Times” starts.

Nicholas puts on headphones. whispers: “Close your eyes and begin to relax.” He sees a past life: Victoria, 1928, a murder. He is her lover, Julian. But the hypnotist’s voice cracks: “You are not Julian. You are not Nicholas.”