Silent Lucidity by donnica59

donnica59 - Silent Lucidity

donnica59

Sep 29, 2026 01:15pm

<ol><li data-list="bullet">Written by Queensrÿche guitarist Chris DeGarmo (who left the band in 1998), this is a song that deals with a person having a lucid dream. </li><li data-list="bullet">A lucid dream happens when you are aware that you are dreaming, and can control parts of it. </li><li data-list="bullet"> </li><li data-list="bullet">DeGarmo got the idea from a book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345331443/songfacts02-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creative Dreaming</a>, which explains how to tap into your subconscious mind and make like Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception. </li><li data-list="bullet">DeGarmo told Metal Edge in 1990: "Dreams tend to recur. </li><li data-list="bullet">Very often you have the same images, and it's being used in therapy, to confront the image in your dream. </li><li data-list="bullet">In a lifetime the average person spends about 4 ½ years in a vivid hallucination of the subconscious. </li><li data-list="bullet">You're doing things like flying, walking through walls - it's so intense. </li><li data-list="bullet">People can experience incredible physical sensations during dreaming."</li><li data-list="bullet"> </li><li data-list="bullet">In our interview with Queensrÿche's lead singer Geoff Tate, he said: "I love that song. I think it's a beautiful, beautiful piece. </li><li data-list="bullet">And although I didn't write it, </li><li data-list="bullet">I had a lot to do with shaping the destiny of that track through my melodic contributions and the way I sang it, and also in the mixing of the song and that kind of thing.</li><li data-list="bullet"> </li><li data-list="bullet">It had a strange beginning. It started out as simply just acoustic guitar and voice. </li><li data-list="bullet">And it wasn't until we were almost finished with the record, just in the last week of working on the record, that we added all the other instrumentation to it.</li><li data-list="bullet"> </li><li data-list="bullet">In fact, our producer (Peter Collins) didn't really want to put it on the record because he didn't think it was that well-developed as an idea. </li><li data-list="bullet">He was actually putting his foot down at one point saying, "No, I think you should come up with another song. </li><li data-list="bullet">You only have so many songs for the record, I don't think you should put that on the record." </li><li data-list="bullet">I think it's a good idea that he said that because it inspired Chris DeGarmo and I to really buckle down and finish the song and actually make it into what it is."</li><li data-list="bullet"> </li><li data-list="bullet">A piece of classical music is incorporated into this song: Brahm's "Lullaby" can be heard starting at 5:26, played by a cello.</li><li data-list="bullet"> </li><li data-list="bullet">Queensrÿche has had a long and illustrious career, but this is their only song to crack the Hot 100 in America. </li><li data-list="bullet">They fared better on the UK charts, where they placed six songs in the Top-40.</li></ol>