Repentance Lyrics - Systematic Chaos - Dream Theater

Hello, mirror 

So glad to see you my friend, it's been a while 

Staring at the empty page before me 

All the years of wreckage running through my head 

Patterns of my life I thought had torn me 

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, then 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 

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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 

Hoping that the step will help restore me 

To face my past and ask for forgiveness 

Cleaning up my dirty side of this un-swept street 

Could this be the begin of the end 

I once thought it better to regret 

Things that I have done, then haven't 

Sometimes you've got to be wrong 

Learn the hard way 

Just when you're through hanging on 

You're saved 

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development 

We will be amazed before we are half way through 

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness 

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it 

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We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace 

No matter how far down the scale we have gone 

We will see how our experience can benefit others 

That feeling of uselessness and self pity will disappear 

We will lose interest in selfish things 

And gain interest in our fellows 

Self seeking will slip away 

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change 

Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us 

We will intuitively know how to handle situations 

Which used to baffle us, we will suddenly realize that 

God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves 

Misinterpreted promises, we think 

Helping for any one's touch 

For that to portray, I'm sure 

You're only one 

You're only as sick as your secrets 

But the truth shall set you free 

The truth is the truth 

All you can do is live with it