Repentance by Dream Theater

Staring at the empty page before me
All the years of wreckage running through my head
Patterns of my life I thought I don´t ...
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 and 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

• Corey Taylor - "Until that moment, I'd never felt like I'd failed at anything...And I felt like I failed her...And I failed myself, and I failed my children...It's still really hard to deal with."
• Steve Vai - "I want to thank you for helping me to see my own selfishness and to tell you how regretful I am it has hurt you."
• Chris Jericho - "I'm sorry I didn't visit you in the hospital, Grandpa when you were on your deathbed. I'm sorry I didn't come to your funeral...I don't know if I was selfish or just too scared to face it. It's one of the biggest regrets of my life."
• David Ellefson - "I'm here to confess with you that what I did, was wrong... And I'm asking for your forgiveness..."
• Steve Hogarth - "The only unforgivable thing hauls itself out of bed, looks over my shoulder at the bloody English weather..."
• Joe Satriani - "I really regret not being able to see my friend Andy..."
• Mikael Åkerfeldt - "One of my best friends who's the godfather of my daughter, he asked me to sing or play something at his wedding, and I turned it down because I was busy and too much of a chickenshit to do it...And I feel sorry for that, because it was a very very close friend of mine..."
• Steven Wilson - "So, I wanted to apologize to anyone that I've upset or offended.. by my words, it's just an opinion, but unfortunately, I tend to express it as a fact, and that's kind of arrogant. Isn't it?"
• Jon Anderson - "I think it's the betrayal...it still haunts me."
• Neal Morse - "I'm sorry for what I did back then... I was a different person. I really was and I'm so sorry. I wish it wouldn't have happened, but it did, and I'm sorry. Forgive me. I'm sorry..."
• Daniel Gildenlöw - "I guess I'm simply sorry for being me and not you. I so often wish you could be here with me to show me the way..."

• David Ellefson - "You're only as sick as your secrets, but the truth shall set you free..."
• Corey Taylor - "The truth is the truth, so all you can do is live with it."

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 begin of the end

I once thought it better to regret
Things that I have done and haven´t

Sometimes you´ve got to be wrong
Learn the hard way
Just when you´re through hanging on
You´re saved