have done it" had he known how large the Suite would grow: “If I had realized what I was getting myself into five albums ago ... I think maybe I would have written one song that encompassed all twelve steps.” Before leaving Dream Theater in 2010, Portnoy had planned to play the Twelve-step Suite in its entirety following the Black Clouds & Silver Linings tour. He intentionally reserved "The Shattered Fortress" for this tour. He said that it would “break his heart” if Dream Theater was to perform the Suite without him. In May 2014, during an interview for Eddie Trunk’s "Trunk Nation," Portnoy commented on the outcome of American heavy metal band Queensrÿche’s feud (which resulted in the band's ex-vocalist Geoff Tate retaining the rights to the albums Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime II) and said that he would like to have done the same with his Suite when leaving Dream Theater. Later Portnoy toured with musicians from Haken, playing the suite in its entirety. Songs "The Glass Prison" “The Glass Prison” contains the first three parts of the Suite (“Reflection,” “Restoration,” and “Revelation”). It is the first track on 2002's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and is the longest track of the "Twelve-step Suite." Rich Wilson (author of Dream Theater's official biography, Lifting Shadows) describes the track as a "clattering mass of riffs and shredding that finds Dream Theater at their most grinding." The weekend before entering the studio to start work on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, John Petrucci and Portnoy saw Pantera perform at the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City. This provided a great influence on the band. Portnoy described the track as musically "this total Pantera-meets-Megadeth, relentless ball of energy." "This Dying Soul" “This Dying Soul" features parts four and five of the Suite ("Reflections of Reality (Revisited)" and "Release"). It is the second track on 2003's Train of Thought. Wilson describes the track as a lyrical and musical continuation of "The Glass Prison." The song also contains some lyrical references to the band's song "The Mirror," most notably the opening lines, "Hello mirror/so glad to see you my friend/it's been a while." The lyric also references their song "Regression," which includes the lyric "Hello Victoria, so glad to see you my friend." Also, the first section's title, "Reflections of Reality (Revisited)," references the line "Reflections of reality are slowly coming into view." The line