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1* "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.
2-->"It's the closing of the curtain\
3in the play that was my life\
4Countless chapters left unopened\
5Tragedies inside...\
6"I was fighting for a reason\
7Holy, blessed homicide\
8Seems I have committed treason\
9All I've sacrificed..."
10* "Darkness"
11-->"Don't turn away\
12I pray you've heard\
13The words I've spoken\
14Dare to believe\
15For one last time\
16And then I'll let the
17
18-->Darkness cover me\
19Deny everything\
20Slowly walk away\
21To breathe again\
22On my own
23** Oh yeah, [[SarcasmMode it gets better]]. The song isn't just a sad, depressive ballad. Dave dedicated this song to his grandfather with whom he was estranged with. It was not until his grandfather fell ill that he wished to see his grandson. But by the time word got to Draiman, who was on Ozzfest, his grandfather had mere hours to live.
24* The video for "Inside the Fire", when it's not Nightmare Fuel. The BigNo and the look on David's face as he mourns his girlfriend are heartwrenching.
25* "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.
26-->"When you came to life, I was terrified\
27I knew that nothing else would ever feel the same\
28Doubt came over me; what kind of father would I be?\
29I knew the time had come to stand up and be a man."
30** All destroyed when she had a miscarriage:
31--->"The world around me died\
32When I saw that heartbeat"
33** The song starts with the sound of a baby crying, then ends with the drone of a {{flatline}}.
34--->Why was it only in death were you redeemed, my child?\
35I pray you were redeemed, my child.
36** At about two and a half minutes into the song, Draiman cries out, ''"My child!"'' , and you can hear the pain and grief in his voice very clearly.
37* "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.
38* "[[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust 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.
39* At first glance, "Decadance" doesn't sound like a tearjerker. But when you actually look at the lyrics (especially the chorus), you see a different side to the song.
40--> Then you slowly recall all your mind\
41Why, your soul's gone cold, and all hope has run dry\
42Dead inside\
43Never enough to forget that you're one of the lonely\
44Slowly recall all your mind
45* "Save Our Last Goodbye" is supposedly about one of Draiman's friends with pancreatic cancer who died just after surgery. The opening bars include a voicemail from said friend where he is hoping for good news, before the song starts in earnest. By the third chorus, it really sounds like David is barely holding it together.
46--> Save our last goodbye,\
47Embedded in my mind\
48Your face will never leave me;\
49Save our last goodbye,\
50It's killing me that I\
51Won't get to hear your laughter anymore.
52** The song ends with a voicemail stating that the friend's phone number is no longer in service, symbolizing him no longer being around.
53* The lyrics to Tyrant are incredible potent to any child that's ever had to grow up with a deadbeat father, or any mother that's ever had to struggle to hold the family together.
54* Disturbed's cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4 The Sound of Silence]] takes a depressing, solemn guitar song and turns it into an uber-depressing, yet beautiful, piano and orchestra song.
55* "Already Gone" ends Evolution on an extremely melancholic note. The album already had a few depressing songs, but when you hear the music along with David's voice it just becomes completely heartbreaking.
56-->Pain\
57Left me numb\
58Far too many times\
59To celebrate this death\
60I never will forget\
61And we spoke\
62Oh so many times\
63The words we never said\
64Are the ones I most regret
65* "Torn".
66-->Knew there was a price to pay, didn't think it would thrill you\
67To witness the fallen one shattered and ashamed\
68No I'm not the only one yearning to fulfill you\
69Unwilling to risk it all\
70Still uncertain\
71Now I am torn, thought it was over this time\
72And we know there's still a fire inside\
73And we know, and we know\
74We're gonna let it burn\
75Let it burn\
76Till the image fades away

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