Dream Theater - Forsaken Video

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"Forsaken" Video Review

"Forsaken" is the second track of Dream Theater's album, Systematic Chaos.

Petrucci describes the story of the song as based on a short story by Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, originally entitled "Phantoms," in a futuristic setting.

He outlines the song as being about a man named Leo, jailed by an inhumane society, as seeing an apparition of a futuristic android, Alice, in the night.

Alice guides him on nightly journeys through the sky, and through time, as she harvests his blood to bring life to inanimate mannequins, who then reenact the darkest events in history (of the future).

This song explores the realm of progressive metal, changing textures and going between a haunting piano melody and a heavy guitar riff.

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