Repentance - Dream Theater

This song alone has held me together during recent times, without exaggeration.

I have been ignoring the truth for long enough, and I must confront my worries before they are truly too late. I am still only in the beginning stage of making an actual change in my lifestyle, but I will nonetheless continue to spend time, as minuscule as they may seem, into working things out.

I’m sure many would agree that truth, one of which are called class attendance and FUCKING ASSIGNMENTS, has many temptations on the way towards it. To some, the temptation is easy to dismiss but for someone like me who is used to a lifestyle of easy choices, the idea of procrastination or dismissal is dreadfully more appealing.

I hope by declaring this, I can at least be set free from my own lies.
I also hope that whoever reads this post take the time to read the following lyrics and may even benefit as I have from it.


Staring at the empty page before me
All the years of wreckage running through my head
Patterns of my life I thought adorned me
Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament

Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me
As the pen begins to trace my darkest past
Signs throughout my lifethat 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 than haven't
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And 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 about 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 unswept street
Could this be the beginning of the end?

I once thought it better to regret
Things that I have done than haven't
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And learn the hard way
Just when you're through hanging on
You're saved