Perfect Symmetry

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Band Members

Ray Alder - lead and backing vocals
Jim Matheos - guitars
Frank Aresti - guitars and backing vocals
Joe DiBiase - bass
Mark Zonder - acoustic and electronic drums

Track Listing

01. Part Of The Machine	6:16
02. Through Different Eyes	4:22
03. Static Acts	4:28
04. A World Apart	5:03
05. At Fate's Hands	6:59
06. The Arena	3:19
07. Chasing Time	3:38
08. Nothing Left To Say	8:00

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Liner Notes

Fates Warning is:
Ray Alder - lead and backing vocals
Jim Matheos - guitars
Frank Aresti - guitars and backing vocals
Joe DiBiase - bass
Mark Zonder - acoustic and electronic drums

All songs deranged by Fates Warning

Special thanks to our guest artists:
Keyboards: Kevin Moore courtesy of our good friends in Dream Theater and Mechanic Records.
Violins: Faith Fraeoli

Management and direction by Andy Gould for Concrete Management.
Exclusive booking: William Morris Agency (Roger Gacon, Guy Richards)
Merchandise: Great Southern (Steve Miles)

Perfect Symmetry recorded and mixed 4/89 - 5/89 at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, CT.
Produced by Roger Probert for Major Productions
Engineer: Phil Magnotti
Additional engineering: Matt Lane and Johnny Montagnese
Mixed by Phil Magnotti and Max Norman
Excecutive Producer: Max Norman for On Yer Bike Ltd. / Brian Slagel for Metal Blade Records

Guitar and Amplification consultant: N.F. "Buck" Brundage
Production co-ordination: Johnny Montagnese
Studio Manager: Patricia Spicer
Mastered at Masterdisc by Bob Ludwig
Pre-production: Silver Cloud Studios & Bill's Place Studios, North Hollywood

Art Direction and Design: Hugh Syme / Stephen Hibbard

No Exit road crew:
Mark "you ain't eatin' 'cause I ain't hungry" Feivou: Road manager, drums and stage left guitars.
Dave "Emma" Obrizzo: Live sound engineer, stage left guitars, and director extraordinnaire.
Chip Lafferty: Live sound engineer.
Kevin "King Harles" Zimmerman: Stage right guitars.
Steve "digwood, chuckfoot": Stage right guitars.
Tom "atta boy B" Blardo: Stage left guitars.
Keith "Spock" Bycholski: Merchandise rep.
Rosie Floyd: Driver

Special thanks to: Andy Gould, Bob Chiappardi, Walter O'Brien and everyone at Concrete, Brian Slagel, Mike Faley, Steev Riccardo, Jon Sutherland, William Howell, Bill Metoyer, Karen Kloack and everyone at Metal Blade West, Cheryl Valentine, (We will do as Cheryl says), Jim Pitulski and everyone at Metal Blade East, Wes Hein, Clarissa Garcia, Lisa Gladfelter, Sam Kaisar and everyone at Enigma, Alexandria at Roadrunner and everyone at Capitol Records, Jem Aswad and Kevin Sharp at CMJ, Chris Black and Jeff Cuttrell at the Hard Report, Mark Laspini from FMQB, Bill Berrol, Cindy Rosenthal, Sal Barbara, Norma, Karla and Glenn at the Fan Club, Bryn Mutch, L. Viner, Vince Dennis, Steve Blackmore, Ann DiBiase and to Margaret, Lori, Lisa, Shelly and Dona.

We'd also like to thank the following for allowing us to use their products exclusively, B.C. Rich Guitars (John Spangler, Dave Williams), Gibson Strings and Accessories (Todd Mauer), Avedis Zildjian (Mike and Annmarie), Pro marks Sticks (Pat and Mike), Remo Heads (Eric) and we appreciate the support and assistance of Dunlop Accessories (Gabe Ireland), Gallien-Krueger (Jim Ross), Pierce Engineering, A.R.T., Drum Workshop, dDrum, Rims Technology, Aquarian Drum Products, Trebor at S.R.I. and to everyone who contributed their time, efforts and concern over the past year thank you for helping us to make Perfect Symmetry.

For Newsletter plus Fan Club and Tour Info write to:
Fates Warning
P.O. Box 31190
Hartford, CT 06103
SASE or IRC required.
[Note: The Fan Club no longer exists, do not send anything to this address.]

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Metal Blade reissued Perfect Symmetry on 6/10/2008
The album was remastered and also included a second disc of demo recordings and a DVD of live material.

Lyrics

Top of Page	Part Of The Machine (Matheos)
	Just another face in the crowd wandering towards obscurity. Driven by the dull desires of a worn out routine. Stagnant in the suffocating silence of emotional exile, a fugitive from freedom surrenders to mediocrity. A helpless voice starting to sink. You could make a choice but you never learned to think. Solo F.A. Weary and weakened victims fall prey to vague ideals and passionless play. Systematic spontaneity in synchronized society. Immersed in the cause and the call of the day, sacrificed inner needs give way. To shared individuality in collective reality. A spirit of belonging satisfies your longing but the truth is never seen. False sense of freedom grows but dependency shows your part of the machine. A hopeless choice, searching for someone real. You could find that voice but you never learned to feel.
Top of Page	Through Different Eyes (Matheos)
	Intro solo J.M. We're walking within a shadow where echoes of different times resound looking for memories to relive in yesterdays that can't be found. Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack. Changing minds take us away, and you can't go back. And staring into ageless eyes that shared secrets too dark for light we're searching for old bonds in places that lie forever out of sight. Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack. Changing minds take us away, and you can't go back to different times or ageless eyes, free from sorrow. Changing hearts will hide the past from tomorrow. Solo F.A. / J.M. Through different eyes we try to find people and places we've left behind. Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack. Changing minds take us away, and you can't go back to different times or ageless eyes, free from sorrow. Changing hearts will hide the past from tomorrow. Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack. Changing minds take us away, and you can't go back Through different eyes we keep looking for what we lack...
Top of Page	Static Acts (Aresti)
	Air currents grind, monotony. Image defined, static scene. Adherents bent opinionless following scent of commoness. Fit the latest rage, whatever stains the page. Then fears allayed, of lonely shade. Wheels, they grind...industry. Insipid finds, out of key. Opinions bent toward standard waves, bleaching out divergent shades. Mock integrity. Veiled hypocrisy. Ironic finds, when selves descried. Solo F.A. Ban expressiveness. Bold repressiveness dictated by minds closed tight and walls that shut out light, and so we have static acts.
Top of Page	A World Apart (Aresti)
	We find ourselves in ruin and it's come too far, how? It's no use, too much allowed and abused. Worlds apart, they're excused. When we've warned they're amused. We slip right by, and ignore this sable scene. We've lives to live, it's all for one you see. Why should we think to care, won't we anyway disappear? Worlds apart, they're excused. Balance waived as we speak. Solo J.M. / F.A. Praised are those with fashions grand, self concern leads their plans. A moment's craze and natural crime subserves a world to malignant minds.
Top of Page	At Fate's Hands (Aresti / DiBiase / Matheos)
	Ours is the cry of the helpless, told in the timeless truth of the written word. Trapped by the tempest of the blind our muted calls can't be heard. Helpless as we stand amidst the push of thoughtless hands. We are adrift without direction in a raging storm on a calm sea. Clinging to our expectations to stem the tide of destiny. Helpless as we fall beneath the crush of waters walls. Solo F.A. / J.M. / J.M. * / F.A. ** * doubled by violin ** doubled by keyboards
Top of Page	The Arena (Aresti)
	Words of cunning shinning stunning. Men of grandeur blinding, numbing with winsome wiles in specious styles. Speeches etching, rhyming, wrenching. Men so shallow stumble fetching for words that maze, to clear their daze. Calm in disarray. Sinking day by day. Hopeless never see save what they believe. Solo J.M. Choices weakening, ever sinking. Men are poisoned into thinking That they've a voice above their noise. Spheres of disarray worsened by the day. Sadly led and fooled without thoughts to rule. Spheres of disarray worsened by the day. Sadly led and fooled without thoughts to rule.
Top of Page	Chasing Time (Matheos)
	I've watched in silence, without seeing as a stranger within me grew. Detached and distanced from the day while youth's precious years flew. Chasing time through empty skies of endless hours, living for the future. Visions of brighter days to come kept the shadows from my sight, made the present bearable and obscured the fading light. Chasing time through the cold void of solitary days, living for the future. Today is within my reach and tomorrow is so illusive. But I'm still chasing time through increasing disillusion, forever living for the future of an illusion.
Top of Page	Nothing Left To Say (Matheos)
	Intro Solos F.A. / J.M. I remember the endless longing that called inside of me from fountains of expression trying to break free. Nothing left to say when the walls give way. Still I can faintly recall the subtle purity of youthful inspiration and insecurity. Nothing left to say when the child finds his way. Pride and the drive that started the dream turned in time to an endless obsession. Caught in a vicious circle of compulsion possessed by the goal and the possession. Desires bind the truth to all secrecy but behind the aspirations I see a life devoted to blind ambition and a mortal man searching for eternity. Behind the desires and the wall that gave way there's a forgotten cause consumed by the day. Solo F.A. Behind the ambitions of a child who found his way there's a cold realization that our deeds die with the day. And behind the disguise of a man with a cause there's a child screaming with nothing left to say. Solo J.M. Paralyzed by inhibitions and indecisions. What was once a release is now a prison.
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