Dream Theater - The Glass Prison (SUBTÍTULOS ESPAÑOL)

Primera canción del disco Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence de la banda de Metal Progresivo Dream Theater, subtitulada al español (La Prisión De Cristal). Composición por John Petrucci, John Myung, Jordan Rudess y Mike Portnoy, letra escrita por Mike Portnoy.

Es también la primera parte de Twelve-Step Suite (Suite de los Doce Pasos), una canción dividida en cinco partes, todas en distintos álbumes. Twelve-Step Suite trata sobre los 12 pasos de recuperación del programa de doce pasos de Alcohólicos Anónimos, proceso que vivió el baterista Mike Portnoy debido a su adicción al alcohol.

Cubre los pasos 1,2 y 3 de Twelve-Step Suite:

-I. REFLECTION
-II. RESTORATION
-III. REVELATION

Es una de las canciones más pesadas de la banda en su historia, teniendo una fuerte influencia del Groove Metal, específicamente de la banda Pantera. Es el comienzo del viaje por el programa de recuperación de Alcohólicos Anónimos de doce pasos.


Letra en inglés:


I. REFLECTION

Cunning, baffling, powerful.
Been beaten to a pulp.
Vigorous, irresistible.
Sick and tired and laid low.
Dominating, invincible.
Black-out, loss of control.
Overwhelming, unquenchable.
I'm powerless, have to let go.

I can't escape it,
it leaves me frail and worn.
Can no longer take it,
senses tattered and torn.

Hopeless surrender,
obsession's got me beat.
Losing the will to live,
admitting complete defeat.

Fatal descent
spinning around.
I've gone too far
to turn back round.

Desperate attempt,
stop the progression
at any length,
lift this obsession.

Crawling to my glass prison,
a place where no one knows
my secret lonely world begins.

So much safer here,
a place where I can go
to forget about my daily sins.

Life here in my glass prison,
a place I once called home,
fall in nocturnal bliss again.

Chasing a long lost friend
I no longer can control.
Just waiting for this hopelessness to end.


II. RESTORATION

Run
fast from the wreckage of the past,
a shattered glass prison wall behind me.

Fight
past, walking through the ashes,
a distant oasis before me.

Cry
desperate, crawling on my knees,
begging God to please stop the insanity.

Help me,
I'm trying to believe,
stop wallowing in my self pity.

"We've been waiting for you my friend,
the writing's been on the wall.
All it takes is a little faith,
you know you're the same as us all".

Help me,
I can't break out this prison all alone.
Save me,
I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own.
Heal me,
I can't restore my sanity alone.

Enter the door,
desperate,
fighting no more.
Help me restore,
to my sanity,
at this temple of hope.

I need to learn,
teach me how,
sorrow to burn.
Help me return
to humanity.
I'll be fearless and thorough
to enter this temple of hope.

Believe,
transcend the pain.
Living the life.
Humility
opened my eyes.
This new odyssey
of rigorous honesty.

Serenity
that I never knew.
Soundness of mind
helped me to find
courage to change
all the things that I can.

"We'll help you perform this miracle,
but you must set your past free.
You dug the hole, but you can't bury your soul,
open your mind and you'll see".

Help me,
I can't break out this prison all alone.
Save me,
I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own.
Heal me,
I can't restore my sanity alone.

III. REVELATION

Way off in the distance I saw a door
I tried to open.
I tried forcing with all of my will but still
the door wouldn't open .

Unable to trust in my faith,
I turned and walked away.
I looked around, felt a chill in the air,
took my will and turned it over.

The glass prison which once held me is gone ,
a long lost fortress.
Armed only with liberty
and the key of my willingness.

Fell down on my knees and prayed,
"Thy will be done".
I turned around, saw a light shining through,
the door was wide open.


Dedicated to Bill W. and all of his friends.
Dedicada a Bill W. y a todos sus amigos.