And the album plays again. Forever. “The Dance of Eternity” — but slowed down to half-speed, and buried in the mix is Nicholas’s own heartbeat, recorded live in the operating room, 1999.
The needle lifts. Silence. He is back in the white room. The album cover in his hands now shows his own face — young, old, dead, alive. He turns it over. The tracklist has only one song: dream theater full album
He screams: “I just want to stop!”
His father appears. They fish on a still lake. His father says: “Son, you died in 1999. A car crash. This album is your coma. Dream Theater wrote it while you slept.” And the album plays again
The Count of Tuscany’s Endless Sleep