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By he’s weeping. A choir sings of peace. Then the needle skips. The song loops. He can’t die. The record won’t end. Part Two: The Glass Prison (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence)

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.”

Then the clock strikes 9:01. The second hand stops. dream theater full album

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.”

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? By he’s weeping

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.

begins. The 24-minute epic. He stands on a cliff overlooking a city that spells “DREAM THEATER” in burning lights. A man in a jester suit (the “Medicate” therapist) hands him a pill. “This will end the album.” The song loops

A Dream Theater fan in 2026 puts on a vintage vinyl. Inside the sleeve, instead of a lyric book, there is a polaroid of a man in a white room, smiling, with the words written in marker: “I finally got out. — Nicholas”