Story of Scenes from a Memory

If you like the album, you should also get Live Scenes from New York (DVD). Listening to the audio commentary is quite entertaining, and together with the videos the story becomes quite easy to follow.

 

Hi, I recently bought Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory (Metropolis Part 2), incredible album, but I'm not very smart when it comes to comprehending the meaning of a story, poem, etc. so the whole story of this thing kind of went by me

1.) The main thing I don't get was the murder, the way I see it one of two things happened:

Julian killed both Edward and Victoria, then placed the letter on them and made up a story about the crime, how Edward had killed Victoria and then himself, thus making Julian "The Witness" that was spoken of earlier. In this case what happened to Julian?

The other possibility I see is that Julian killed Victoria and then killed himselfk, and the witness that was spoken of was just that, a witness. In this case what happened to Edward?

With the above, I also thought of the possiblity that the old man at the beginning was either Edward or Julian

2.) Apart from the actual murder, am I understanding it correctly that the point is that Nicholas is like a reincarnation of Victoria? (since he speaks so much about the sole carrying on)

3.) Then theres the miracle and the sleeper, what is the significance of these names. I undestand it relates to the original Metropolis (whihc I didn't understand the meaning), I was thinking these were spirits or something, but they are actually just two of the characters involved in teh murder. Is there any significance in "THe Miracle" and "The Sleeper"


If someone could explain this to me I'd appreciate it, Thanks