7)  The Way It Used To Be (07:45) - (DTIFC 99 CD)

    Original source:
    The Way It Used To Be (07:48)
    [Studio demo from 1997, recorded during the making of the album ]
    [Falling Into Infinity. Available on the CD single for the song ]
    ["Hollow Years".                                                ]
      - James LaBrie
      
    Feelin' sick once again
    I'd give anything
    To be back home
    Safe and warm inside
    
    I can't stand the crowds
    Or the smell that surrounds me
    The cloth and key 
    Still preach chastity
    
    Take me back so I can see
    The way it used to be
    
    I lay down and enter a dream
    Unlike anywhere I've been
    All is silent and sweet
    
    Then I'm falling down to the ground
    And I'm lost from what I've found
    Can't stand the sounds no more
    
    Take me back so I can see
    The way it used to be
    The way it used to be
    
    Move me from the water
    Too cold to swim
    (Bring me to the land)
    Move me from the water
    That I see within
    (Bring me to the land)
    
    Radio waves 
    Splash through my head
    To a rhythm that I crave
    Radio waves 
    Relive the moment  
    Seems like yesterday
    
    Take me back to Twelve Mile Bay
    Where I'll sit at the edge with my feet in the water
    Take me back as the sun fades away
    Break down the walls so I can breathe

    Move me from the water
    Too cold to swim
    (Bring me to the land)
    Move me from the water
    That I see within
    (Bring me to the land)

    Move me from the water
    Too cold to swim
    (Bring me to the land)
    Move me from the water
    That I see within
    
    The way it used to be
    The way it used to be

    Move me from the water
    Too cold to swim
    (Bring me to the land)
    Move me from the water
    That I see within
    (Bring me to the land)
    
    Move me from the water
    Too cold to swim
    (Bring me to the land)
    Move me from the water
    That I see within