hive music festival week#56 R#2-dream theater-the spirit carries on(cover song)by samuelstifen

hello all #musiczone friends, I'm @samuelstifen, I'm from Indonesia.
and today maybe the Hive Music Festival has entered week 56 in round number 2.

Hopefully we will always be enthusiastic about giving our appearance as good as possible.
Oh yes, friends, sometimes we don't know the next path in this life, I also don't know whether my path in life is okay, whether my path will remain bright forever, surely we all have fear in each of us. What I'm afraid of in me is life. Next, after I die, is everything beautiful, does it smell good? Is it calm there? Is it cool there. Hopefully what we hope for in the next life will always be fine. But we always do good and worship in this life.
There's no point in bragging about ourselves because we will all die. Like the song I brought for the 56th week, i brought a song from band Dream Theater entitled The Spirit Carries On. Surely friends will know this legendary band. Progressive metal group from the United States which was formed in 1985 under the name Majesty. Founded by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy, while they were studying at the "Berklee College of Music" in Boston, Massachusetts.
They then dropped out of college to concentrate more on the band that would eventually become Dream Theater. Despite several lineup changes, the three original members remained together with James LaBrie and Jordan Rudess until September 8, 2010, when Mike Portnoy left the band. In October 2010, the band held drummer auditions to replace Portnoy. Mike Mangini was announced as the new drummer on April 29 2011, after eliminating 6 world class drummers.
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The first time I knew this song, after that it was about 5 or 6 years I didn't hear this song again and last night I accidentally heard this song when I was playing music on my cellphone, this song appeared randomly and suddenly I thought about playing and performing it. here. So actually this song turns out to be a song representing Nicholas and Victoria. At first I thought Nicholas was the name of the vocalist of Dream Theater and Victoria was the vocal backing. Didn't know this song was a chapter of the story of Nicholas and Victoria, where the story is that Nicholas is a man who lived in 1999 (now), he often dreams about Victoria who lived in 1928. So long story short, Nicholas feels that Victoria is his other personality (dual personality), so Nicholas goes to a hypnotherapist to find out more about Victoria. Let's just try to briefly unpack the lyrics of Spirit Carries On from my personal perspective.

This song tells the story of the beginning, Nicholas who questions about himself in this world before and after, what is far out there, and is everything in this life real or true?

Most people say that life is very short, only now, and we only have 1 chance.

But Nicholas didn't just accept what many people said about only living once, he questioned whether there was anything else after this, had I lived in this world before?

Victoria told Nicholas not to mourn his previous life, but to use the memory of his previous life as an occasional reminder for his current life.

After listening to Victoria's enlightenment, finally, little by little, Nicholas began to move towards finding and understanding this cycle of life.

After a long search, Nicholas has finally completely become a servant who has completely surrendered himself to his Owner. Nicholas has been able to implement what true surrender is in life.

Nicholas tells about his current situation, he has come back to life and understands the true meaning of life. Light has now enveloped Nicholas' life, there is no more fear and pain, everything Victoria said was true.

No longer afraid of death, Nicholas will be fine if he is called home tomorrow, because he believes that the spirit will remain immortal, as immortal as the Creator.

and the conclusion of the song lyrics that I got, without love, without truth you can't come back. Without faith and hope, the mind will not be able to calm down. And ultimately death will not be freedom from fear and pain, but death will be a terrible transition that will continue to repeat itself.
and there is nothing wrong if we are still living in this world, we do good things and help people who are in trouble, there will definitely be a reward in the next life.

LYRICH-THE SPIRIT CARRIES ON
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go when we die?
What lies beyond
And what lay before?
Is anything certain in life?

They say, life is too short
The here and the now
And you're only given one shot
But could there be more
Have I lived before
Or could this be all that we've got?

If I die tomorrow
I'd be all right
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

I used to be frightened of dying
I used to think death was the end
But that was before
I'm not scared anymore
I know that my soul will transcend

I may never find all the answers
I may never understand why
I may never prove
What I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try

If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

Move on, be brave
Don't weep at my grave
Because I am no longer here
But please never let
Your memory of me disappear

Safe in the light that surrounds me
Free of the fear and the pain
My questioning mind
Has helped me to find
The meaning in my life again
Victoria's real
I finally feel
At peace with the girl in my dreams
And now that I'm here
It's perfectly clear
I found out what all of this means

If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on
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I hope friends like the song that I brought, and that's all I can say about this song and the meaning of the lyrics of this song, sorry if I have a little problem with memorizing the lyrics, because I don't memorize a little so I sing using the lyrics are on my cellphone again. If it makes me ugly, I apologize for my performance, I will continue to give the best performance in the future. That's all I can say. I thank my friends for their support too, keep up the enthusiasm for creating, God is always with us.