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Forsaken
Forsaken EP is the seventh EP released by Dream Theater, and their first digitally released EP, with no physical version being available. It was released in 2008. The EP was created to promote the song Forsaken from the album Systematic Chaos. Forsaken EP is the band's first EP since Through Her Eyes.
Petrucci said "Forsaken" is a story told through a "short song structure". The song tells of a person who is visited at night by a vampiress. While the man thinks he is being shown "beautiful things", in reality he is having his blood sucked by the vampiress. An animated music video of "Forsaken", produced by Gonzo and directed by Yasufumi Soejima, was released on January 26, 2008. The band allowed Soejima artistic freedom with the design of the video, which was set in a science fiction future instead of the present day. During the production of the album, the working title for this song was "Jet Lag", and it was the sixth song to be written.
