Scene Nine: Finally Free Lyrics
"You are once again surrounded by a brilliant white light. Allow the light to lead you away from your past and into this lifetime. As the light dissipates, you will slowly fade back into consciousness, remembering all you have learned. When I tell you to open your eyes, you will return to the present, feeling peaceful and refreshed. Open your eyes, Nicholas."
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 1: The Miracle]
Friday evening, the blood still on my hands
To think that she would leave me now
For that ungrateful man
Sole survivor, no witness to the crime
I must act fast to cover up
I think that there's still time
[Pre-Chorus: The Miracle]
He'd seem hopeless and lost with this note
They'll buy into the words that I wrote
[Chorus 1: The Miracle]
"This feeling inside me!
Finally found my love, I've finally broke free
No longer torn in two
I'd take my own life before losing you!"
[Verse 2: Victoria]
Feeling good this Friday afternoon
I ran into Julian, said we'd get together soon
He's always had my heart, he needs to know
I'll break free of the Miracle, it's time for him to go
This feeling inside me!
Finally found my love, I've finally broke free
No longer torn in two!
He'd kill his brother if he only knew
[Bridge: Narrator]
Their love renewed
They'd rendezvous in a pathway out of view
They thought no one knew
Then came a shot out of the night
[The Miracle (spoken)]
Open your eyes, Victoria!
[Chorus 3: The Sleeper]
One last time, we'll lay down today
One last time, until we fade away
One last time, we'll lay down today
One last time, we fade away
[Instrumental Break]
[Interlude: Narrator]
As their bodies lie still
And the ending draws near
Spirits rise through the air
All their fears disappear, it all becomes clear
An old soul exchanged for a new
Familiar voice comes shining through
[Pre-Chorus: Nicholas]
This feeling inside me!
Finally found my life, I'm finally free
No longer torn in two!
I learned about my life by living through you
[Chorus 4: Nicholas]
This feeling inside me!
Finally found my life, I'm finally free
No longer torn in two!
Living my own life by learning from you
[Vocal Outro: Nicholas]
We'll meet again, my friend!
Someday soon...
[Instrumental Drum Outro]
[CNN report:]
"News in London, France, Russia and Italy have deleted their lead story, all anticipating the outcome of the man considered to be a member of American nobility. And as you can imagine, as the skies have grown darker here over Washington, the mood has grown darker as well and people here are beginning to resign themselves to the possibility that they are witnessing yet another tragedy in a long string of misfortunes. Reaction from everywhere, from Washington and certainly from around the world has guess--"
[Hypnotherapist (spoken)]
"Open your eyes, Nicholas!"
About
In the ninth and final scene we learn more informations, of which however Nicholas remains in the dark, due to awake by hypnotherapist before he can visualize them.
The disk concludes with Nicholas who, unaware of these last particulars, returns to home thinking to be finally free by obsession which tormented him. Now he’s ready to continue his life, no longer shared with the Victoria’s one, aware that, before or latter, the two will be destined to meet.
At this point the piece is termined and the disk continues with ambient noises which describe Nicholas in the act of relaxing: at first he turns on the TV and then starts to listen a disk. In that moment the hypnotherapist’s voice is heard that says him: “Open your eyes, Nicholas!”. Nicholas emits a gemit of pain, while the turntable needle, bumped by Nicholas with a rash act, slides to the end of the disk and provocates a long swish with which the album concludes.
The hypnotherapist, the reincarnation of Edward (the Miracle), rushed Nicholas’s home and killed him before he could know, and so tell, the truth about the tragedy of Echo’s Hill.
As for the tone, “Finally Free” draws on melodic and progressive sounds.
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I remember I was playing the chorus chords for ‘Finally Free’ repeatedly upstairs in the studio and then when I walked downstairs, James had been listening and started to sing this nice melody… That was it! Perfect.
— Jordan Rudess (source)
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