Repentance lyrics

Hello, mirror

So glad to see you my friend, it's been a while

Staring at the empty page before me

All the years of wreckage running through my head

Patterns of my life I thought had torn me

Revealing hurt for shame and deep lament

Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me

As the pen begins to trace my darkest past

Signs throughout my life that should have warned me

Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent

I once thought it better to regret

Things that I have done, then haven't

Sometimes you've got to be wrong

Learn the hard way

Sometimes you've got to be strong

When you think it's too late

Staring at the finished page before me

All the damage now so clear and evident

Thinking 'bout the dreaded task in store for me

A bitter fear at the thought of my amends

Hoping that the step will help restore me

To face my past and ask for forgiveness

Cleaning up my dirty side of this un-swept street

Could this be the begin of the end

I once thought it better to regret

Things that I have done, then haven't

Sometimes you've got to be wrong

Learn the hard way

Just when you're through hanging on

You're saved

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development

We will be amazed before we are half way through

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it

We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace

No matter how far down the scale we have gone

We will see how our experience can benefit others

That feeling of uselessness and self pity will disappear

We will lose interest in selfish things

And gain interest in our fellows

Self seeking will slip away

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change

Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us

We will intuitively know how to handle situations

Which used to baffle us, we will suddenly realize that

God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves

Misinterpreted promises, we think

Helping for any one's touch

For that to portray, I'm sure

You're only one

You're only as sick as your secrets

But the truth shall set you free

The truth is the truth

All you can do is live with it

• Artist:Dream Theater
• Album:Systematic Chaos