Guest artists in systematic chaos

penguin55

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Hi there, i was just lookin through the cd booklet and i happened to see that steve vai, joe satriani, daniel gildenlow and neal morse were credited as guest appearing artists. So i looked up wiki about it and discover that there are actually many more other guests(like steven wilson, and CHIRS JERICHO!) on the album(if the article is reliable). Just wondering if anyone knows which exact tracks,and in what way did these artists contribute to? Thanks.
 
They were all just guests acts to the speaking parts in the song Repentance...

If you hear the song properly, you will catch whom is speaking which part...
 
check wikipedia: its on the song repentance. they have guest spoken parts.

Spoken parts

The middle section of the song includes apologies spoken by the following people:

* Corey Taylor - "Until that moment, I'd never felt like I'd failed at anything...And I felt like I failed her...And I failed myself, and I failed my children...It's still really hard to deal with."
* Steve Vai - "I want to thank you for helping me to see my own selfishness and to tell you how regretful I am it has hurt you."
* Chris Jericho - "I'm sorry I didn't visit you in the hospital, Grandpa when you were on your deathbed. I'm sorry I didn't come to your funeral...I don't know if I was selfish or just too scared to face it. It's one of the biggest regrets of my life."
* David Ellefson - "I'm here to confess with you that what I did, was wrong... And I'm asking for your forgiveness..."
* Steve Hogarth - "The only unforgivable thing hauls itself out of bed, looks over my shoulder at the bloody English weather..."
* Joe Satriani - "I really regret not being able to see my friend Andy..."
* Mikael Åkerfeldt - "One of my best friends who's the godfather of my daughter, he asked me to sing or play something at his wedding, and I turned it down because I was busy and too much of a chickenshit to do it...And I feel sorry for that, because it was a very very close friend of mine..."
* Steven Wilson - "So, I wanted to apologize to anyone that I've upset or offended.. by my words, it's just an opinion, but unfortunately, I tend to express it as a fact, and that's kind of arrogant. Isn't it?"
* Jon Anderson - "I think it's the betrayal...it still haunts me."
* Neal Morse - "I'm sorry for what I did back then... I was a different person. I really was and I'm so sorry. I wish it wouldn't have happened, but it did, and I'm sorry. Forgive me. I'm sorry..."
* Daniel Gildenlöw - "I guess I'm simply sorry for being me and not you. I so often wish you could be here with me to show me the way..."

The very ending of the song also features two final spoken dialogues, they are as follows:

* David Ellefson - "You're only as sick as your secrets, but the truth shall set you free..."
* Corey Taylor - "The truth is the truth, so all you can do is live with it."
 
oh. thanks, sorry i didn finish the line on wikipedia. But then again, r all those lyrics true to them or is it jus made up for the song, jus wonderin
 
im guessing they were talking about themselves and not made up for the song. cos most of the guests who appeared use to drink and stuff. and repentence is part of the AA thingy that portnoy wrote.
 
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