"A Mind Beside Itself" is a three-part song cycle composed of "Erotomania", "Voices" and "The Silent Man".
 Portnoy stated that the instrumental "Erotomania" was written "off the cuff"as "a bit of a joke and parody".
 Petrucci penned the lyrics to "Voices", dealing with the subject of mental illness.
 He researched schizophrenia and similar disorders and used religious terms "to make things more vivid".
 "When I was writing it, I saw these terms and medical things that were just brilliant," he said.
 "Like there was a guy who felt that his skin was inside out.
 I read that and was like 'Oh my God!
 That's unbelievable; I've got to write about that.'"
 Petrucci wrote the music and lyrics to the acoustic "The Silent Man".
 LaBrie described the lyrics as dealing with "communication breakdown, for instance between a father and a son.
 We feel that we have to play certain roles when around one of our parents, and we never really get to know the real person.
 I'm lucky that I behave with my own father like I would a friend.
 We can joke around and go for a beer."
 A full live performance of the suite can be found on the 2000 "Live Scenes from New York" album.
"Skylark" is an American popular song with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael, published in 1941.
 Mercer said that he struggled for a year after he got the music from Carmichael before he could get the lyrics right.
 Mercer recalled Carmichael initially called him several times about the lyric, but had forgotten about it by the time Mercer finally wrote the lyrics.
 The yearning expressed in the lyrics is Mercer's longing for Judy Garland, with whom Mercer had an affair.
"The Wind Cries Mary" is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix.
 According to his then girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham's, account, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her, using "Mary" (Etchingham's middle name).
 In a later interview, Hendrix commented that the lyrics represent "more than one person".
Ioanna-Maria Gertsou was born on January 20, 1979 in Athens Greece and she is visually impaired due to retinopathy of prematurity.
 She is mostly known as representative of the guide dog movement, through "Lara Guide-Dog School Hellas" a non - profit organisation that she co-founded in 2008.
 She is an activist, promoting human diversity, guide dog access, physical and electronic accessibility and animal rights.
 She is also a scientist with superior studies in experimental psychology and cognitive science.
 From 2006 to 2012, she worked as a researcher in the Human/computer Interaction Laboratory, located at the Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.) which is considered to be a major scientific center worldwide.
 In 2008, during a visit at F.O.R.T.H the President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias was moved by her presentation and did something extraordinary: he bowed and kissed her hand to show his respect.
 Ioanna-Maria is one among the very few visually impaired / disabled researchers around the world and the only one, employed in Greece.
 Additionally, she is considered to be a rare case of a person who is blind since birth to exhibit visual synaesthesia.
 That is why, she is being asked to contribute to experiments, studies and projects regarding perception and the crossing of the senses.
 Every year, she is invited and participates in numerous conferences, arising matters varying from psychological research to guide dogs and contemporary issues as youth unemployment., Her knoweledge in psychology is often shared on newspapers and blogs.
 She was the first person to enter with her guide dog (and a dog in general), into the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament.
 In 2009, she protested through the web because her guide dog was denied in two reustaurants.
 She wrote a letter which went viral and caused great awareness.
 Following this incident, one year later a Spanish tourist named Antonia Pons Losada was not permitted into the new Acropolis Museum with her guide dog.
 As a result of local and international outcry regarding issues of guide dog access in Greece on August 2010, Ioanna contributed to the voting of the first national law, related to guide dogs.
 As soon as the law was approved by the Hellenic Parliament, she took her guide dog "May" and a Television crew for a visit to the Acropolis Museum.
 Today on the Museum's website we are informed that "guide and assistance dogs, are welcome".
 According to the law 3868/2010, guide, assistance and therapy dogs are allowed practically everywhere in Greece.
 The law was recently reviewed, including guide/assistance/therapy dogs who are still in training and claryfing that they can enter into transportation means, without a muzzle.
 While transforming Greece into a role model for guide dog access, she joined the board of directors of the European Guide Dog Federation to defend the rights and access of guide dog teams, throughout the European Union.
 In 2013 at the European Parliament, she and former MEP Jorgo Chatzimarkakis were the main rapporteurs for the voting of an E.U. direction, aiming to promote e-accessibility on governmental websites.
 The direction was approved in 2014.
 Ioanna-Maria, was two times a political candidate.
 One in the 2009 Hellenic National Elections with the Ecogreens Party and one in the 2014 European Elections with the "Greek European Citizens Party".
 She was a paracycling athlete.
 Always accompanied by her two guide dogs "Lara" and "May", she had appeared on several documentaries, TV shows, movies and public events., The references are mainly in Greek.
"Chaar Kadam" (English: Four Steps) is a romantic Hindi song from the 2014 Bollywood film, "PK".
 Composed by Shantanu Moitra, the song is sung by Shaan and Shreya Ghoshal, with lyrics penned by Swanand Kirkire.
 The music video of the track features actors Sushant Singh Rajput and Anushka Sharma.
"Ricochet" (sometimes rendered "Rick-o-Shay" and also as "Ricochet Romance") is a popular song.
 The credits show it to be written by Larry Coleman, Joe Darion, and Norman Gimbel, without apportioning the work on the lyrics and music, in 1953.
 In fact, since Coleman and Darion wrote "Changing Partners" the same year, with Darion as lyricist and Coleman as composer, while Gimbel wrote the English lyric for "Sway" the same year, it can be concluded that Coleman wrote the music and Darion and Gimbel the lyrics.
Swanand Kirkire (Marathi: स्वानंद किरकिरे) (born 1970) is an Indian lyricist, playback singer, writer, assistant director and dialogue writer, both in television and Hindi films.
James Church Alvord was an American poet who flourished in the early years of the 20th century.
 A handful of his poems were published in Poetry Magazine, and are available in its online archives.
 Others appeared in general magazines such as "The Nation" and "The Century Magazine".
 In addition, the libretto he wrote for a "Scène Dramatique" by the composer Frederick Stevenson, called "An American Ace", is available through the Library of Congress.
 Before the entry of the United States into the First World War, he published a short story ("The Iron Cross") in a collection produced by the Christian Women's Peace Movement, but as the libretto to "American Ace" shows, by the end of the war he had adopted a rather different stance.
 In addition to poetry, he also wrote reviews for the New York Times.
 In the 1920s someone of the same name was a Professor of Modern Languages at Centenary College of Louisiana, and wrote the lyrics of the college's Alma Mater, but it is not clear whether this was the same person.
Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861 – 22 July 1922) was a Canadian author and journalist.
 She also published as Mrs. Everard Cotes among other names.
 First trained as a teacher in a normal school, she published poetry early in her life and after a brief period of teaching got a job as a travelling writer for Canadian newspapers and wrote a column for "The Globe", a Toronto paper.
 Afterward she wrote for the "Washington Post" where she also gained editorial experience, being quickly put in charge of the current literature section.
 She continued to work as a writer and editor for Canadian publications until a journey to India, where she married an Anglo-Indian civil servant.
 From then on she divided her time between England and India, writing for publications in various countries, and then began to write fiction rather than journalism.
 She wrote 22 works of fiction, many with international themes and settings, novels which met with mixed acclaim and today are rarely read.
 She died in Ashtead, Surrey, England, a year after she moved there with her husband.
 In 2016, she was named a National Historic Person on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Kancharla Gopanna (Telugu: కంచర్ల గోపన్న ) (c 1620 – 1680), popularly known as Bhakta Ramadasu or Bhadrachala Ramadasu (Telugu: భద్రాచల రామదాసు ), was a 17th-century Indian devotee of Rama and a composer of Carnatic music.
 He is one among the famous vaggeyakaras (a person who not only composes the lyrics but also sets them to music; vāk = word, speech; geya = singing, singable; geyakāra = singer) in the Telugu language.
 Other famous "vaggeyakaras" in Telugu literature, including Annamayya, Tyagaraja, Kshetrayya, and Shyama Sastri.
 He lived in the village of Nelakondapalli near Bhadrachalam, Telangana during the 16th century and is renowned for constructing a famous temple for Rama at Bhadrachalam.
 His devotional lyrics to Rama are famous in South Indian classical music as "Ramadaasu Keertanalu".
 Even the doyen of South Indian classical music Saint Tyagaraja learned his musical compositions.
 He also wrote Dasarathi Shatakamu (దాశరథి శతకము) with a 'makuTamu' (మకుటము) 'Daasarathee Karunaa payonidhee' (దాశరథీ కరుణా పయోనిధీ!)
, a collection of nearly 108 poems dedicated to the son of Dasaratha (Lord Rama).

Question: In what year was the person who wrote the lyrics for "Chaar Kadam" born?
Answer: 1970