Disturbed/Tear Jerker

""It's the closing of the curtain
 * "Overburdened". When the string harmonies sound off in that song, the tears are prone to flow. The song itself is about a dead soldier who followed all his orders lamenting that he's going to hell, thus making his life and decisions up to that point completely worthless.

in the play that was my life

Countless chapters left unopened

Tragedies inside...

"I was fighting for a reason

Holy, blessed homicide

Seems I have committed treason

All I've sacrificed...""

""When you came to life, I was terrified
 * "Darkness"
 * "My Child" on further levels than the band has ever ventured. It's about Draiman learning that he'd gotten a girl pregnant and his resolve to become a father.

I knew that nothing else would ever feel the same

Doubt came over me; what kind of father would I be?

I knew the time had come to stand up and be a man.""

""The world around me died
 * All destroyed when she had a miscarriage:

When I saw that heartbeat""

"Why was it only in death were you redeemed, my child?
 * The song starts with the sound of a baby crying, then ends with the drone of a Flatline.

I pray you were redeemed, my child."


 * "The Infection" is about drowning in depression, your sanity whittled away by the loneliness as your home becomes a prison. In the end you realize that in order to survive these demons, you have to destroy yourself a bit and move on bleeding. This is without a doubt the most vulnerable song Draiman has ever written.
 * "Never Again" for one of the most intense performances of Draiman's career. You can feel the impassioned fury and rage in his every note. Imagining the kinds of bleakness he must have gurgled up to write something like this, it almost becomes a tearjerker.