"Silent Lucidity" is a single by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche from the 1990 album Empire. The song peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #1 on the Billboard Album Rock...

Hush now don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye

You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head

Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game
Of life

So here it is, another chance
Wide awake, you face the day
Your dream is over...

Or has it just begun?

There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night

Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize
And you were scared

It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind

Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you'll hear and see
This magic new dimension

I
Will be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I
Will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you

In silent lucidity...

Spoken:
Visualize your dream (Yes)
Record it in the present tense (Don't be scared)
Put it into a permanent form
If you persist in your efforts
You can achieve a dream control
(Control)
(How're you doing today?) (Better?)

Dream come true
Dream come true
Dream come true

Help me...

If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see

The walls you built within
Come tumbling down
And a new world will begin

Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly

A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize?
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but

I
Will be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I
Will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you...



Lyrics submitted by Boonechic_21, edited by XXX729


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    General Comment:There is no ONE specific meaning to this song. I have read quite a few posts to the meaning of this song, and many reflect that it's an emotional song/emotional lyrics. Well, that's what makes us humans wonderful...emotions are different from person to person, and one person's meaning won't be the same as the next.

    To me, basically, it's a song about a parent consoling a child who has awaken from a dream about loosing a parent. Most children don't fully understand death, so they don't understand the complexity of feelings when a loved one dies and they don't cry/mourn for the loss. The lyrics state that the the "mind TRICKED you to feel the pain..." As the child wakes more, they're presented with the thought that it must have been a dream...or was it?

    The door is symbolic in nature...a way to keep themselves separated from the world, and that they go through the door at night - thusly, dreaming. The parent then comforts the child by telling them that they were in that special place, the place where they can still see/talk to the other parent, but they didn't realize where they were and became scared.

    In this place, the "dreamer" will learn to face their fears, remember this from time past, and indulge in the minds fantasies, whatever they may be. While in this place, they will be in control of their fears/feelings, and that once they learn this control over their fears, they will see a new dimension (metaphor for "the solution to the problem"). This does give credence to Lucid Dreaming.

    The remaining parent continues to console the child by reassuring they will always look out for them, that they will always be there to help them, and that they will be there to protect them in the night - when they don't maintain the control.

    Visualize the dream - remember it once awake, and write it down not in the past or future tense, but right now. If the child persists in writing their dreams down, they will see the changes they affect in their dreams, and then be able to control the dream (metaphor for a problem/memory?).

    If the child keeps an open mind, they'll realize that they don't have to keep their eyes open to "see what needs to be done," that the answer will come to them ANY time. The "walls"/barriers to completing the task or solving the problem will be removed once they're able to close their eyes, while awake, see the answer and put it into motion and a new world presents it's self as the problem has been solved.

    Living twice at once...the life you have while in the normal world and the life you lead while in the dream world - will teach the child that nothing will harm them in their dream world because they have control in their dreams - that there is nothing they can't do.

    The dream has come full circle - from the beginning, to the formulation of a plan to remove the barriers/walls put up to keep the world out, to the execution of the plan and achieving dream control. The "Master of Illusion" is the dreamer - the dream is an illusion, and the dreamer is the master (dream control), and do they know that there is a greater power in life, other than themselves? If so, they realize that the dream (loss of a parent) is REAL (alive), and that they can be their own guide through their dream world (lucid dreaming).

    Ask me again in a couple hours and I'll probably have a different meaning...:S
    Flag Rainy3022on June 06, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:Back in my teens when this song was getting alot of airplay, I was given an interpretation from a friend about the lyrics of this song and he was probably the BIGGEST Queensryche die hard I've ever known. According to him, the singer (first person), is consoling a loved one (second person), and uses dream metaphors to describe the experience of mental illness for the one suffering. I think he actually narrowed it down to the experience of schizophrenia as the most concrete example, but I suppose any mental illness would be applicable. Thought this might be a more profound explanation. Not sure of its accuracy.
    Flag Lynnsteron February 09, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:Back in my teens when this song was getting alot of airplay, I was given an interpretation from a friend about the lyrics of this song and he was probably the BIGGEST Queensryche die hard I've ever known. According to him, the singer (first person), is consoling a loved one (second person), and uses dream metaphors to describe the experience of mental illness for the one suffering. I think he actually narrowed it down to the experience of schizophrenia as the most concrete example, but I suppose any mental illness would be applicable. Thought this might be a more profound explanation. Not sure of its accuracy.
    Flag Lynnsteron February 09, 2013   Link
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    Song Meaning:The official meaning of the song is about lucid dreaming. Chris Degarmo has said so. In the beginning it's someone consoling a person who had a nightmare, and then telling them that they can do amazing things in their dreams.

    People are so unimaginative, thinking this to just be a love song.

    I've been interested in lucid dreaming too...and this is the lucid dreaming theme song!
    Flag spacedyeon August 06, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Could it be the angels in our dreams watching over us? I think it is.
    Flag agarcia510on July 29, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Mine is obviously wrong, but it's always been my personal interpretation: The speaker of the lyrics is singing the words of this song to comfort his partner because their baby died during pregnancy ("Help me").
    Flagged lyricalONEon June 23, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:My husband was killed August 24 2011. I rarely dream but when I did it was always the same dream, him dying basically the way he did. My husband always told me not to worry he was always careful. Careful had nothing to do with it...it was more of a wrong place wrong time. Since then I have had no more dreams I remember but hope that what I am doing is how he would like me to proceed in life. Today I went and signed for my house. As I was signing I was wondering if I was doing the right thing. As I started to drive away from the title company Silent Lucidity came on the radio. Whatever it may really mean, to me it meant that my husband is with me and watching over me and making sure I'm doing the right thing. Not that my crying is ever going to stop, but at least I found some comfort is knowing that he is still with me, keeping an eye on me.
    Flagged mrcollinswifeon April 23, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Watching the video....it's definitely about a child having a bad dream and a protecting parent telling them it's going to be okay as part of the song,..."your mind tricked you to feel the pain of someone close to you leaving the game of life". -cut to scene of kids tossing the baseball and it falls on ground- At a concert I went to a few years back, Geoff asked the crowd in San Diego..."how many of you have kids? out there?"...."well, this is a song about that". I think so many songs out there can fit into our lives regardless if that's the exact meaning or not. I think what we choose to interpret is alright too. I always refer to Creed's song "My Sacrafice" chorus "when you are with me, I'm free, I'm careless I believe...above all the others we'll fly, this brings tears to my eyes.." as how I feel when I'm spending time with my son. I have a photo of us riding in a sailplane high above the ground together when he was 5 years old that I see in my mind when I heard that chorus.
    Flag QuestForFireon April 19, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:My deceased twin brother wrote this for me. He loved it and he passed away and when I hear it I know he sent me this message. Cheers.
    Flag 996vtwinon January 22, 2012   Link
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    My Opinion:My reply to alanjason Dated back in august 2011. Whether or not the intent was about lucid dreaming (Which I have been Lucid Dreaming for more than a decade), there is much more inspiration (meaning to breathe in) to this song. For most of us that have commented on it, it has a higher meaning, a more spiritual meaning. Maybe he wrote it about Lucid Dreaming, but might it be possible that his words were actually inspired (breathed into him) by a higher power. As being both a published poet and well as an accomplished artist I know that I have often wrote and painted pieces that were truly inspired (by its truest meaning) The words of this song have touched and comforted so many, so why would you want to discredit their feelings. Have you lost your wonderment and innocence that you feel the need to tread on others and the emotions that this work of art evokes? As for it is in the tile, I don't see it! "Silent" to be quiet, still "Lucidity" state of clarity, sanity... “Lucid” does not mean control nor does “Silent” mean dreaming. The term "Lucid Dreaming" means a coherent dream, many people have learned to control the Lucid Dream, but ultimately Lucid Dreaming is knowing within your dream that you are dreaming, therefore "dream control" is not a synonym for Lucid Dreaming. But I do give you credit for hearing and relaying the interview and voicing your opinion and if that is all this song means to you will then enjoy the song just for what you feel about it. I though choose to let this masterpiece envelop me and wrap me in my emotions. I mean no offense in my reply to you.
    Flag Mopagaon December 08, 2011   Link

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