Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name -Majesty- by John Myung; John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston; before they dropped out to support the band. Though a number of lineup changes followed; the three original members remain today along with James LaBrie and Jordan Rudess.The band-s two highest selling albums are the gold selling Images and Words (1992); although it reached only #61 on the Billboard 200 charts; and Awake (1994) which reached #32 on the Billboard 200. Recently Systematic Chaos entered US Billboard 200 at #19.Dream Theater has sold over two million albums in the U.S. "Wait for Sleep" is the seventh song from the album Images and Words by the American progressive metal band Dream Theater. The song was written by the former band member Kevin Moore and it consists of a duet between a piano (played by Moore) and vocals (by the current vocalist James LaBrie).
It is played in E minor and has a very calm feeling to it, in syntony with the lyrics theme, a woman trying to deal with her fears as she waits to fall asleep. The song was written about a friend.