i padri dei Dream Theater
I canadesi Fates Warning sono stati citati dai Dream Theater (assieme ai Queensryche) tra i gruppi ai quali si sono ispirati maggiormente
Jim Matheos, chitarrista e mente dei FW, collabora con il batterista Mike Portnoy nel progetto parallelo O.S.I. (acronimo di Office of Strategic Influence)
And love was there in vain, PROFOUND and deep but traced with pain - too early for a child of TEN
Loving the pure and sane he sought the goddess unstained - watching them turn to flesh again
HUNGRY for both the PURITY and SIN
Life seemed to him merely like a GALLERY of how to be
And he was always much more HUMAN than he wished to be
But there is a LOGIC to his world, if they could only see
(Pain of Salvation - Beyond the pale)