Dream Theater - The Bigger Picture (Audio) 

DT fan for 22 years now. Good song. Top 5 or 6 mellower songs. But then its hard to say because so many of their songs are heavy for a while, then lighten up, and get heavy again. One of the things I love about them. They're not metal. They're not rock. They are..... Dream Theater.

03:26 pack your bags kids,we're going on a feels trip

4:19 haunting and beautiful bridge - extremely emotional moment of the song, and James really puts his heart into his vocals. This song creates tears - just so deep and reflective.

That vocal harmony on the very last word has to be one of the best harmonies I've ever heard. Gives me chills every time.

This entire album is a MASTERPIECE! "The Bigger Picture" is my favorite song. It calms me down when I'm feeling stressed or upset. Thank you DT!

This song is A M A Z I N G!!! Back to their roots....progressive, complex, emotional, powerful songs with REAL SINGING!!! ❤️ Beautiful.

I got to love this and Illumination Theory. Thanks Dream Theater!

My favorite song from this awesome new CD. "Better to try and fail then to try at all." I definitely know how that feels. Brilliant lyrics.

I feel like people are giving Dream Theater too much flak. They still manage to retain a unique sound and, most importantly, on other songs, Mangini has finally proven himself to be a fantastic new asset to the band. To anyone saying they have a commercialized sound: Illumination Theory. Honestly, Dream Theater have managed to retain their touch and after 28 years, they still manage to make top-quality music in all aspects. My hat's off to them.

without a doubt one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard in my life. this album from start to finish represents everything DT has always tried to give us

This song is a masterpiece. The vocals make my mouth water....so much beauty and raw emotion. I'm stunned.

this is the 1st dt song that i listen mainly to hear james singing. it is also one of my favorites on this album, so hats off to him. the final part is absolutely wonderful.

The part at 5:11 is seriously one of my all time favorite moments of any song ever written. That part pretty much sums up me reflecting upon my own life. Does anyone else feel this way?

I love how Dream Theater can just flip the switch from something dark and technical like The Enigma Machine to something SO GOD DAMN GORGEOUS like The Bigger Picture. How? How can any band be so talented? These guys are easily one of the most talented groups I have ever heard, and I am proud to be a fan!!

Long before the colors start to bleed I can see the painting come alive Clever like an angel in disguise Moving in and out of reach If the candle lights this crooked path Like a lighthouse peering through the haze I will find the river through the rain And I'll reach the water's edge Shed your light on me Be my eyes when I can't see Shed your light on me Be my guide so I can see The bigger picture Like a moth burned by the fire And driven to the flame (Prophecies' a blessing and a curse) I must bare this cross alone There's no one else to blame With each treasure found Another shipwreck's washed ashore I am carried by the current On a slow and steady course Shed your light on me Be my eyes when I can't see Shed your light on me Be my guide so I can see The bigger picture What If caught in a moment I get lost and can't find my way What if all along I was wrong In every turn, In every way Would you talk me off the ledge Or let me take the fall Better to try and fail Then to never try at all You look but cannot see Talk but never speak You live but cannot breathe See but don't believe Wounds that never heal A heart that cannot feel A dream that's all too real A stare as cold as steel I've listened to the stories of resentment and disdain I've looked into the empty eyes of anger, fear, and shame I've taken blood from every stone And traveled every road When I see the distant lights illuminate the night Then I will know I am home

Batman is looking at this and is like " man, I got some serious competition here"

I’ve listened to the stories of resentment and disdain I’ve looked into the empty eyes of anger, fear, and shame I’ve taken blood from every stone And traveled every road When I see the distant lights illuminate the night Then I will know I am home

JP is the god of music…why he makes ALWAYS AWESOME solos? no words also for labrie…he has a divine voice

this band always make me surprise with their song, listening their lyrics so ... peace ... its beautifull music

I actually love the drum sound. and yes I am a guitarist, so I have the bias of one, yet something about the drum sound feels... unique to me. Like it fits with the intense emotion of the song.

an extremely moving song, seriously an amazing piece of work. It's hard to describe what this song does, but all of you know exactly what i am talking about.

Beautiful album. Dream Theater never fails to impress!

Tasteful drumming by Mangini starting at 3:26. And people still say he doesn't have feel...

came back to say after listening like 10 times, Ive come to the beautiful revelation that this is the best song of the fucking year and the ending theme at 6:15 is fucking pure genius. The melody coupled with the crescendo and lyrics are perfect. How can people not revere this band as the greatest in the world, if not all time?

Vocals and guitar is phenomenon . Loved it

This album has been for some reason very underrated by the elite prog community (though I always value their opinion), but I think it's stunning, rock on DT \m/

3:26 free eargasm button

It's so weird. When I first got this album I was like..."eh, underwhelming". But then I went back 6 years later and I am totally in love with it. Dream Theater is the only band I know that can do this to me. This is probably the third time it's happened since I discovered them back in 2003.

I love that dream theater can write really positive and moving songs and still be a rock band. Most rock bands these days have a lot of sick and morbid lyrics, not dream theater for sure

There's nothing wrong with that snare drum. In fact , it sounds alot like the snare effects that Mike Portnoy with use in previous recordings with Dream Theater before he left. Mike Mangini had some pretty big shoes to fill when he replaced Mike Portnoy (one of the best drummers in the world). That being said I think Mike Mangini is doing a terrific job and has done what a lot of other drummers only dream of doing in keeping those crazy sick melodic ideas spilling out (which mangini did have alot of input on this new album) and that is picking up with Mike Portnoy left off and keeping Dream Theater's style and music alive. They couldn't have picked a better person to do so and from the looks of it , an overall great person. great job Mr. Mike Mangini. Very impressed.

'Surrender to Reason' and 'The Bigger Picture' are criminally underrated. Melodic, progressive, heavy- and no extended jamming or solo sections. They would have been loved if included on older albums.

The best song from this album!

Played live in Images and Words 25th Anniversary Tour! :D

The drum sounds are amazing!.

When that voice came in.. goosebumps.

jordans piano in the beginning warms my heart!!!

probably some of the deepest diving lyrics i've heard in a song, kind of depressing but still a great song.

from 3:26 part, makes me want to mourn and smile, so thanks John Petrucci

How could anyone be so dumb to dislike such a heavenly piece like this!?

I didn't get into DT until a 2 or 3 years ago but one thing I have found is that hasn't been one song by them I have not liked thanks for all the great music guys

So much love for this song. Maybe one of the best songs they've ever made

and i heard people saying "Dream theater is only technique without emotion and without feeling"... I think they didn't listen to dream theater

Stunning JP track

This album is so beautiful and it was more amazing to discover it during Dream Theater's concert in Paris (31/01/2014). To discribe how brilliant this band is : younger I hated metal, I thought it was just noises and one day my father bought Systematic Chao and it makes me love this kind of music. Guys you've change my life !

If Dream Theater knows how to do anything, it's polarize their fanbase. I guess it all depends on what album you became a fan with. I think it's stellar. Best album since Octavarium

This is honestly one of my all time favorite Dream Theater songs!

Petrucci really is a different beast. Altough i listen to more technical players, there ia something about his style that makes me love his playing.

"Better to try and fail than to never try at all"

I have really missed Dream Theater, This sounds like a return to form. Fingers crossed

When this song first came out, I really really hate the drum sound. It sounded too punchy and thick, i thought to myself. But then I saw many drummers played this song with a thinner sounding snare, and then the song sounded... wrong. Then i realized (two years after first listen) that amongst many things, Mangini's drums is the beauty of this song.

The epic intro works well with the Dream Signal in the sky.

Such a beautiful song

NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE, JUST PERFECT!!!!

my favorite song on the album

I think this is my fave song from the album! Great vocal melodies. especially the last couple of minutes.

big beautiful and the best track on the album...a tune to take you away from it all

Nice... From 0:37 to 1:40, on the keys, right before James start to sing every line, JR it's already touching the final melody... "See but don't believe..." That one...

It really brings me back to 2013 when i was a child goin back to my hometown and my father plays this in my car while my mother and my sister slept in the backseat and we enjoy this song in the night :)

Why does it only have 100k views? It's incredibly underrated!

Currently my favorite of the album, beautiful!!!

There is not a better intro than in this song! it's amazing! out of this world

Excellent song from their latest studio album. One of the best songs on the CD. So what if this song sounds a bit commercial. Take for example the FALLING INTO INFINITY album. You have TAKE AWAY MY PAIN on the same CD as BURNING MY SOUL. Also on that same CD is ANNA LEE right after JUST LET ME BREATHE. DT has many different extremely talented sides. Another exmaple is SIX DEGREES OF INNER TURBLENCE. You have WAR INSIDE MY HEAD on the same CD as SOLITARY SHELL. Any DT fan who has all of their CD's knows they have an aggressive heavy side and a lighter melodic side. Even Led Zeppelin had that.

i just realized barstool warrior solo sounds so similar to this one.. wtf! haha

DT are better from album to album. Like wine - the older the better.

Seriously!!! This is GENIOUS!!!!

The best song from the new DT album

That melody, and that ending, we just love you John.... You *LOOK* but *CAN* *NOT* *SEE* ... You *LIVE* but *CAN'T* *BREATHE* ... *SEE* but *DON'T* *BEliEVE* ... *WOUNDS* that *NEVER* *HEAL* ... *A* *HEART* that *CAN* *NOT* *FEEL* ... *A* *DREAM* that's s *ALL* *TOO* *REAL* .... *A* *STARE* *AS* *COLD* *AS* *STEEL* .... I've *listened* to the *stories* of *RESENTMENT* and *DISDAIN* ... I've looking to the *EMPTY* *EYES* *OF* *ANGER* , *FEAR* , *AND* *SHAME*

That break at 5:11 ...

This album gets a 10/10 from me. The production of this album is fantastic. I dont understand the gripe about the snare drum sound. If you listen to old dream theater albums, a lot of times the snare almost sounded like a bongo. The songwriting on this album easily surpasses ADTOE, BCSL and SC. Illumination Theory is perfection. They actually used themselves as influences in this album. They looked back to when they first started as a group and kind of got back to that sound. GREAT ALBUM!

Love this song.

the best song on the DT album!!

This entire album will go down as one of their BEST albums!!!! FANTASTIC!

salute for Dream Theater, John Petrucci, John Myung, Jordan Rudess, James Labrie, and Mike Mangini (Mike Portnoy, Derek Sherinian , kevin moore, Charlie Dominici, and chris collins) you all my influences in music since childhood my father always play the songs Dream Theater, I remember dream theater song that was first entered into my ear that song called "home", and I started looking about Dream Theater, to this day I still enjoy a great melody touch in Dream Theater

i have this on vinyl and the crackle and pop of the record player makes it sound awesome

What a beautiful song! Just shows that Dream Theater is one of the best progressive rock bands in the game.

Masterpiece

instant classic!

Favourite track on the new album, by far!!

this song is basically a musical theme or motif on the Astonishing, strange but true

Just a awesome song, profound lyrics !

At 5:32, one of the most beautiful parts of the album begins.

Nothing like some DT to pull you out of depression

Good track. Kinda reminds me of "Surrounded".

amazing vocal line from james and beautiful song!

Fuck about the snare drum sounds... do you think you all understand what DT is playing better than JP...? Mangini is the drummer now. MP left the band. Move on people...!!!

Very beatiful song

Ahhh, fuck all the haters, this Album kicks ass and this is my #1 from this album.

I love the song... but that FUCKING SNARE DRUM j d8n289nd2n d32!!!!

This album is awesome from beginning to end. It ranks 3rd behind Scenes From A Memory and Awake in my view.

I'm still a fan. Just another step in their career. Very few albums I've listened to that I LOVE right away, always takes time to grow on you, to figure out the nuances of any song.

I love this song :D

When I first heard this album, I expected more of the same from ADTOE, more showing off technical chops with no regards for atmosphere, mood, or context, no letting a song just sit for a while in silence. And when I finished listening to this song, I cried from happiness. This is one of my favourite songs.

THE BEST ... !!!!!

Masterpiece 👍

to me this is their best album since metropolis pt2. it was about damn time they started sounding like a fucking prog metal band again. im so glad they actually let mangini do his magic and that they let labrie actually sing and use his voice to the full potential of the songs. on several of the previous albums labrie could have done better if petrucci and portnoy had let him. and its evident on labries work on mullmuzzer and his solo albums.

I just love the section at 2:48

From the first time I heard this, something about the ending of this song reminded me of the ending from Strange Deja Vu. That somewhat reminiscent ending combined with the freshness of the rest of the song makes for another great ballad from Dream Theater!

*Teary eyes* Damn it Petrucci, just... Damn it.

Listening in 2018 and it’s still a killer tune

I love this music, one of my favorite of Dream Theater