Fairy Tale in Music

So, I've been wanting to share this song for a while now since we had been talking about fairy tale before....I guess this is a little delayed, but oh well. So this song is by Dream Theater, one of my all time favorite bands, and it's called The Count of Tuscany. I know...you probably see the length and you're like, "I'll just listen to a little bit of it and that'll be enough to get the gist of it..." PLEASE DON'T DO THAT! The awesomeness of this song can only be fully experienced if you listen to all 19 minutes of it...I know it's a lot but I think you'll be glad you did it :)

So, basically this song is a fairy tale about a guy who goes on an adventure, experiences a vast number of strange and frightening things, and then kind of discovers the purpose of it all at the end. It's difficult to really describe it all, and really I hope that the music will speak better than my description. But the reason I'm showing this to you guys is, firstly, because it's one of my favorite songs ever, and second, because it is a fairy tale in song-form. I think it's pretty cool that fairy tales not only exist in books and movies, but also in music. And Dream Theater does a phenomenal job at letting you experience the awesomeness of whatever story is being told here. I'm just glad that there are bands out there who are willing to write about something other than love, sex, partying, or breaking up; instead, they get down to the heart of it all and show us something that I find to be truly beautiful and mysterious...