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Space dye vest

From: jbianca@uswest.com

Date: 3/19/99
Time: 3:03:56 PM
Remote Name: 144.163.17.14

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What the hell is a space dye vest?

Re: Space dye vest

From: NoSf3RaTu
Date: 11/26/99
Time: 1:19:14 AM
Remote Name: 216.160.19.147

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So what's the song about? What is a "space-dye vest" anyway?

Kevin Moore told the following to a Japanese interviewer:

It was inspired by... I was looking through a clothing catalog and saw a picture of a girl modeling this piece of clothing called a space-dye vest. And, so, I fell in love with her [laughs] for some strange reason & so the minute I did that, the minute I was just like obsessed with this person, I was like, 'why am I doing that?' & I noticed that I was doing it a lot lately. And I think the prime reason that I was doing that, and this is what I figured out at the time, was that I had just come out of a relationship where I'd gotten dumped, basically, and so I think the situation was that I wasn't finished giving all that I was ready to give, so I was just, like, throwing it around, you know, just aiming it in different directions. It was a total case of projection. And this song is just trying to sort it out & just kind of admitting that I'm just kind of lost. So it's kind of a dark song. It was very cathartic though."

Some of this information was taken from the Dream Theater FAQ. If you're interested in learning more about Dream Theater, visit their official web site, Under A Cyber Moon.