When I was a student in the early 90's, before falling asleep, I used to lie down in my bed with my finger on the TV on/off button and listen to MTV Headbangers' Ball. I was drowsy and almost ready to push the button when this tracked was aired. After a short while I was up and waiting for the track to end so that I could get the artist and song title on a piece paper. The next day I had the CD in my player....
How romantic.... Old days Story! I did almost the same. Nowdays, with the internet and the easy ways of taking information, It seems like everything has lost taste...
I think I still have the *cassette tape* of this album somewhere. I used to crank it all the time in my 1992 Corolla. This record literally changed my life forever.
Amen, to all of the comments! When they parted ways with Portnoy it really pegged the needle on the this-sucks-o-meter. Mike Mangini is a gentlemen’s gentleman, but he’s not Portnoy. Truly one of the most epic and unique ProgRock groups out there and perhaps will ever be...
This band had only one problem: John Petrucci and John Myung should have known that they needed to keep Kevin Moore. The three of them were unstoppable. They should have realized to keep him was worth more than anything else. Oh, well.
Lyrics Just let me catch my breath I've heard the promises I've seen the mistakes I've had my fair share of tough breaks I need a new voice, a new law, a new way Take the time, reevaluate It's time to pick up the pieces Go back to square one I think it's time for a change There is something that I feel To be something that is real I feel the heat within my mind And craft new changes with my eyes Giving freely wandering promises A place with decisions I'll fashion I won't waste another breath You can feel the waves coming on (It's time to take the time) Let them destroy you or carry you on (It's time to take the time) You're fighting the weight of the world But no one can save you this time Close your eyes You can find all you need in your mind The unbroken spirit obscured and disquiet Finds clearness this trial demands And at the end of this day sighs an anxious relief For the fortune lies still in his hands If there's a pensive fear, a wasted year A man must learn to cope If his obsession's real Suppression that he feels must turn to hope Life is no more assuring than love (It's time to take the time) There are no answers from voices above (It's time to take the time) You're fighting the weight of the world And no one can save you this time Close your eyes You can find all you need in your mind I close my eyes And feel the water rise around me Drown the beat of time Let my senses fall away I can see much clearer now I'm blind You can feel the waves coming on (It's time to take the time) Let them destroy you or carry you on (It's time to take the time) You're fighting the weight of the world But no one can save you this time Close your eyes You can find all you need in your mind Find all you need in your mind If you take the time Find all you need in your mind If you take the time
Its cheesy, yeah. But somehow I miss when prog metal could have major modes and good vibes. Word and Images and Vai's Sex and Religion will remain some of my favorite albums for life.
Why are people so confused about the prog sections being cut out? Its designed to be played on MTV as a hit single which would have helped the band commercially. Their audience isn't used to listening to progressive masterpieces which are double the length of a typical song.
55 years old and I remember a friend of mine turning me onto this album.. and still after 30+ years I still listen to this album.. pure masterpiece.. 100% underrated... IMO top 20 albums of all time
Images and Words, the entire album, is a masterpiece from so many aspects, it's still relevant and awesome to this day and probably for the next 50 or more years (providing the human race will still be here)
Oh god. Such a great time they used to have... And I really hope they will still have good time at their next album with the new drummer. MIKE!!! Thank you for your great gift of being such an amazing drummer in such an amazing band. We love you and we hope that you will keep up rocking at the rest of your way! GO PORTNOY!!!!
Wow! I have only started listening to Dream Theater for about 5 years or so. This old school song is awesome! Blew me away even still, with there cheesy 80's look.
Dream Theater, you’re the best of the best!! Magnificent song and masterfully performed by one of the best metal singers of all time: the great James LaBrie, . !! 🎼🎙✌️🤘DT 4EVER
Logan Hiatt He wasn’t the sound of dream theater though. He turned them into a classical and theatrical influence rather than a surreal jazz influence. Personally I think it was a step in the wrong direction
When I was at my best, I could play that guitar solo matching the keyboard. It was so hard and took a ton of perishable practice. I couldn’t keep it up long. Hardest song to learn
Tengo todos los discos pero en mi vida vi un videoclip suyo Es curioso,no soy un adulto que compro los discos en su epoca y nunca los encontro dr casualidad en la mtv y recienn descubro youtube ni nad apor el estilo,tengo 14 años,pero nunca vi un videoclip suyo
I had a little MP3 player as a kid with a bunch of metal songs my dad had hand picked all downloaded on it. This was one of them and one of the reasons I’m a metalhead today. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
This song is so incredibly good I'm glad I found it a few years ago I think this song is especially good for kids to hear in there early teenage years when there still a sponge for knowledge
As amazing as they are (and obviously I realise they are amazing no matter who fronts) but seriously my ex is Conservatorium grade and he still struggles to this day to find a vocalist who can cut it!
![Dream Theater - Wither [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-boKk8uhmcY/mqdefault.jpg)
Kind of ironic that they cut 3 minutes from a song called Take the Time
Beautiful
they lost me when they cut out the damn progressive robotic suite...
Sol FitzGerald TAKE the time in a new Millennium and space called heaven... and the earth said heaven.
But why tho:(
Pablo Donoso .’ Mom b ijjjm m I c
M n hig8ifuuput
That keyboard guy was why I loved this band.
Nitai Gauranga Kevin Moore
well, on the inside of the Awake album, they're all standing up and wearing all black and look pretty badass
Hello I'm from Indonesia I'm hearing this song in 2008 when my age still 5 until now my favorite band is dream theater
Everlasting masterpiece.
dude, Jorden Rudess wasn't even in Dream Theater at that time, that's Kevin Moore who now plays in some small confined German bar.
What heppened 3:19 ? The album version is just so much better
5:10
@Xanadu1115 LOL, cut DOWN to ~6 minutes.
... they cut out 3 minutes
they were the best parts
It's single version,so people will buy the album for full one
The best ones? Idk, seems like the three most disposble minutes to me
@@maxkolbl1527 The best bass part of the song was cut out. :(
Max Kölbl it might seem like that, but to me the song feels clipped and incomplete without them.
There are no "disposable minutes" in good music and this is great music, so there!
Damn edit. Stupid consumers and their low attention spans. They can watch a full-length movie, yet they can't listen to a good full eight-minute song.
Yeah, it's ridiculous how people can be turned off of a song purely based on the length.
Not just good it's a masterpiece
GET THIS MESSAGE TO MY DUDE, AND TELL HIM NOT ONLY DID HIS DAD ESCAPE, I CAUGHT UP WITH HIM IN TIME, VERIFIED WHO IT IS,AND THEN I LET HIM GO
I wasn't working at the time , so it didn't matter to me. And I'm certainly no Bounty Hunter!
I've got his #.
I'll bet you come get me now,won't ya?!!!
When I was a student in the early 90's, before falling asleep, I used to lie down in my bed with my finger on the TV on/off button and listen to MTV Headbangers' Ball. I was drowsy and almost ready to push the button when this tracked was aired. After a short while I was up and waiting for the track to end so that I could get the artist and song title on a piece paper. The next day I had the CD in my player....
Amazing story, I can imagine the satisfaction of getting the disc
How romantic.... Old days Story! I did almost the same. Nowdays, with the internet and the easy ways of taking information, It seems like everything has lost taste...
I think I still have the *cassette tape* of this album somewhere. I used to crank it all the time in my 1992 Corolla. This record literally changed my life forever.
Mika Riikonen dude that’s awesome. This was my first DT album.
🔥🔥🔥1993🔥🔥🔥
Probably the most talented musicians ever in one band!! Never get enough credit!!!
I've been saying this for years. The talent is beyond insanely good
I AGREE 100%.
RUSH, TOOL & DREAM THEATER ARE IN A LEAGUE ALL OF THEIR OWN!!! ROCK ON!!!💯
Amen, to all of the comments! When they parted ways with Portnoy it really pegged the needle on the this-sucks-o-meter. Mike Mangini is a gentlemen’s gentleman, but he’s not Portnoy. Truly one of the most epic and unique ProgRock groups out there and perhaps will ever be...
If they ever tour with Nightwish, the world would explode
@@wendyalexander6705 no question, the level of skill and songwriting these guys do is insane
Portnoy looks like Nick Menza from 1990 Rust in Peace era!
Yeah he does! 😂
Countdown era
Yeah absolutely
I was listening to this song during the '90s, I still listen to this song in 2023. Thank you Dream Theater you composed an everlasting song.
Still the greatest progressive metal song ever
Thats not metal and you know that
Cadaveric Spasm how is this not metal
@@hanzo2238 it's prog metal
@@tomimijatovic4655 prog rock, there is train of thought if you want a prog metal
Learning to live is amazing amazing as well
Remember when James looked like a romance novel fabioso?
Fabilo
This is Rudess's favourite kevin moore solo
@Zedrik Allen when you see Rudess having so much fun jamming on his keytar whenever they perform this song
That's some super awesome trivia dude thank you
@Zedrik Allen i dvd commentary of.. Chaos in motion, i think
Kevin should loan his Jd 800 for the sake of good tone.
That keyboard solo cut at 0:20 is sacrilegious! I’m outta here.
The whole video is sacrilegious. In terms of cutting out parts
Sono Italiano e quando ho sentito la frase pensavo ci fosse un ladro in casa😂
2:56 to 3:21 is a masterpiece of vocal and musicianship.
This song is therapeutic
Everything else, too. 🤘🎹
Labrie's voice suits this song so well , or does this song suits his voice so well ?
both
Director: Now jump forward pull your shirt apart and lick the lens
James: No.
He does during the lengthy instrumental section but it was all cut out.
I THINK IT'S TIME FOR A CHAAEEEAAAAAAANGE!
Man got the voice tho~
The best Kevin moore keyboards 90'
Eh, new guy's not so bad...
I agree!
@@christopherwheeler9948 dude I don't know about you
But I didn't see him write smth bad about Rudess
As a Queen fan, I must say this stuff is just brilliant.
I don't think dream theater without James Labrie his voice like an angel
Fax. just like Megadeth without Dave Mustaine.
@@duncan3998 or Metallica without James.
@delinquent-bikergangmangafan drowning stool had one hit, that band shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as dream theater or metallica lol
Images and Dreams my favorite Dream Threater album ever!!! a Masterpiece!!!
The title of this album is "Images and Words"
This band had only one problem: John Petrucci and John Myung should have known that they needed to keep Kevin Moore. The three of them were unstoppable. They should have realized to keep him was worth more than anything else. Oh, well.
Lyrics
Just let me catch my breath
I've heard the promises
I've seen the mistakes
I've had my fair share of tough breaks
I need a new voice, a new law, a new way
Take the time, reevaluate
It's time to pick up the pieces
Go back to square one
I think it's time for a change
There is something that I feel
To be something that is real
I feel the heat within my mind
And craft new changes with my eyes
Giving freely wandering promises
A place with decisions I'll fashion
I won't waste another breath
You can feel the waves coming on
(It's time to take the time)
Let them destroy you or carry you on
(It's time to take the time)
You're fighting the weight of the world
But no one can save you this time
Close your eyes
You can find all you need in your mind
The unbroken spirit obscured and disquiet
Finds clearness this trial demands
And at the end of this day sighs an anxious relief
For the fortune lies still in his hands
If there's a pensive fear, a wasted year
A man must learn to cope
If his obsession's real
Suppression that he feels must turn to hope
Life is no more assuring than love
(It's time to take the time)
There are no answers from voices above
(It's time to take the time)
You're fighting the weight of the world
And no one can save you this time
Close your eyes
You can find all you need in your mind
I close my eyes
And feel the water rise around me
Drown the beat of time
Let my senses fall away
I can see much clearer now I'm blind
You can feel the waves coming on
(It's time to take the time)
Let them destroy you or carry you on
(It's time to take the time)
You're fighting the weight of the world
But no one can save you this time
Close your eyes
You can find all you need in your mind
Find all you need in your mind
If you take the time
Find all you need in your mind
If you take the time
what the fuck?
they cut like the half song.
Dream Theater and Opeth never fail to amaze me
Its cheesy, yeah. But somehow I miss when prog metal could have major modes and good vibes. Word and Images and Vai's Sex and Religion will remain some of my favorite albums for life.
Listen to Caligula's Horse then
The transition at 3:49 actually works pretty good
Except it cuts out such a great part of the song
@@jaspergillgannon4991 yeah, except the song doesn't lose energy then
This song has been ruined by the edit
Thankfully, we're still allowed to listen to the original. Ain't that something?!
What edit???
@@duncan3998 2 and a half minutes of the song has been edited out for this music video version
@@dodgrblu Is it because of the irony of the title ''Take the time''? cuz not sure if thats the case or not.
@@duncan3998 it's not, it's just the usual case of shortening a song for a radio/video edit
Why are people so confused about the prog sections being cut out? Its designed to be played on MTV as a hit single which would have helped the band commercially. Their audience isn't used to listening to progressive masterpieces which are double the length of a typical song.
And even with that the song is still 6 minutes long haha, when the average commercial song is 3-4 min long
noooo! they cut out the grooviest section in DT history!
Even if they had to edit the solo, they could have done it better.
55 years old and I remember a friend of mine turning me onto this album.. and still after 30+ years I still listen to this album.. pure masterpiece.. 100% underrated... IMO top 20 albums of all time
Even in 1992 Kevin Moore defined cool. Love this song.
1993*
@@duncan3998 images and words was released in 92
Images and Words, the entire album, is a masterpiece from so many aspects, it's still relevant and awesome to this day and probably for the next 50 or more years (providing the human race will still be here)
🤘
James Labrie is the only person they could have discovered to fill the role of Dream Theater lead singer. Same with Mike Mangini on drums.
I disagree, lots of people can play portnoy's parts, they can be learned, the singer however is a different story i agree with you there
Mangini sucks
Sorry love Portney
gotta love that classic 90's look
Oh god. Such a great time they used to have... And I really hope they will still have good time at their next album with the new drummer.
MIKE!!! Thank you for your great gift of being such an amazing drummer in such an amazing band. We love you and we hope that you will keep up rocking at the rest of your way! GO PORTNOY!!!!
Wow this is an old ass comment
@@josed.vargas3961So old that Portnoy even rejoined the band lol
Wow! I have only started listening to Dream Theater for about 5 years or so. This old school song is awesome! Blew me away even still, with there cheesy 80's look.
Dream Theater, you’re the best of the best!! Magnificent song and masterfully performed by one of the best metal singers of all time: the great James LaBrie, . !! 🎼🎙✌️🤘DT 4EVER
Kevin Moore the best keyboard player in the history...
no
LUXO2 Jordon is 3 times better the Kevin
Logan Hiatt He wasn’t the sound of dream theater though. He turned them into a classical and theatrical influence rather than a surreal jazz influence. Personally I think it was a step in the wrong direction
Agree with you totally
Jordan rudass is only speed but kevin moore has more than speed
Ora che ho perso la vista ci vedo di più
❤️
This one lacks too much from the song. Go to the album version to listen to a perfect song.
Best formation ever...
4:32
seems like James Labrie and John Petrucci are very em exited... xD
Dream Theater FUCKING RULES!!!
The amount of time they cut from this video is absurd lol
2020 and still a blast
🔥🔥🔥1993🔥🔥🔥
Max Portnoy drums and Warren DeMartini on guitar, ladies and gentlemen!
Look at JM all these years he is a badass kungfu ninja legend lol
Kevin moore is a simple man. But playing very wonderfull
When I was at my best, I could play that guitar solo matching the keyboard. It was so hard and took a ton of perishable practice. I couldn’t keep it up long. Hardest song to learn
my most favorite song of all time
One of mine too
HAHAA what now people from 2050???? you guys dont have great musicians like these :)))))
Tengo todos los discos pero en mi vida vi un videoclip suyo
Es curioso,no soy un adulto que compro los discos en su epoca y nunca los encontro dr casualidad en la mtv y recienn descubro youtube ni nad apor el estilo,tengo 14 años,pero nunca vi un videoclip suyo
What an album...can't get enough!
PLEAS dont cut songs like this! Its no DT
I had a little MP3 player as a kid with a bunch of metal songs my dad had hand picked all downloaded on it. This was one of them and one of the reasons I’m a metalhead today. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
This version sounds rushed af
I miss Kevin Moore's keyboard work. Shame he left.
It hurts my soul to hear this song mangled like this.
my favorite song :-D
probably one of my favourite songs off of this album. shame this edit sucks so bad, it’s a damn good song that’s really improved by its length.
all the progresive of this song has been cut
:(
This song is so incredibly good I'm glad I found it a few years ago I think this song is especially good for kids to hear in there early teenage years when there still a sponge for knowledge
No song go as hard as this one
I prefer this song live. It's even longer than the song on the album. John Petrucci's guitar solo at the end is just as long as this music video!
James sounded so much better then.
Underrated song
Imagine listening to this for the first time after all you've ever know was hair metal
kings of progressive metal they are legend!!!
Awesome band !
2022 🙌
I wonder where did they get that italian frase.
Man that's a lot of chest hair in that vid. The good old days. Images & Words forever.
bruh
esta rola es maravillosa, y el álbum images and word es lo máximo. Saludos desde México!!!
Kevin moore is a best keyboard player ever...
As amazing as they are (and obviously I realise they are amazing no matter who fronts) but seriously my ex is Conservatorium grade and he still struggles to this day to find a vocalist who can cut it!
John Myung used to headbang!? WTF
Damn they edited a lot. Oh well still sounds good.
Masterpiece
Agreed
@nicholasalsup this is prog metal/rock if you want \METAL/ go listen to necrophagist or something...
My best no1 rock song
ci sono più idee in questa canzone che in 10 dischi prog metal di routine.
this is my favorite song :)
You can't mess with perfection.
caramba!!! que saudade de ouvir isto!!:D
I saw this tour back when it was new, and this video edited out the skills of the bass! This band is better than this video!
🔥🔥🔥1993🔥🔥🔥
kevin moore looks so cool
Still one of the best songs in known universe!
And you're right.. The intro is just.. .... AMAZING.. dunno why.. but well.. the thing is we have it on record lol!
The good old days of the 90s when MTV used to showcase badass music
i have seen this video for first time.
1992