"Silent Lucidity" is a single by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche from the 1990 album Empire. The song peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.[1] The song was composed by lead guitarist Chris DeGarmo. Queensryche performed the song live at the Grammy Awards of 1992, for being nominated in the category of "Best Rock Song", and featured a supporting orchestra.[2] It did however win the "MTV Viewer's Choice Award" for its music video.
Because of the lyrical content, and the title of the song, it is assumed to be based on the subject of lucid dreaming. During the middle eight, a heavily vocoded voice even explains a method for this: "Visualize your dream. Record it in the present tense. Put it into a permanent form. If you persist in your efforts, you can achieve dream control."
The song was recorded with sweeping orchestrations. Often the orchestra is not relegated to the background but instead is very prominent such as during the second half of the instrumental section (timestamp 3:16 - 3:51).
At the end of the song (5:26), a cello or double bass plays the theme from the traditional Brahms' Lullaby - the typical English translation words being "Lullaby, and good night, go to sleep little baby".
"Silent Lucidity" is ranked #21 on VH1's list of Greatest Power Ballads.[3]
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- "Silent Lucidity" - 5:49
- "The Mission" [Live] - 6:17
- "Eyes of a Stranger [Live] - 8:03
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- This song was used in the Season 2 episode Heart from hit CW show Supernatural. In the scene, Sam has to kill a woman (a werewolf) he has recently fallen for; the first since the death of his previous girlfriend, Jessica.
- This song is also featured in Queensrÿche's Greatest Hits album.
- This song refers to the art of lucid dreaming, and at 3:24 of the official song, there is a voice explaining brief directions to dream control, or lucid dreaming.
- Several lines are sampled from Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
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