Status Seeker

Song infobox
Name = Status Seeker


Type = Song
Artist = Dream Theater
Album = When Dream and Day Unite
Released = 1989
track_no = 2
Recorded =
Genre = Progressive metal
Length = 4:15
Writer = Charlie Dominici, John Petrucci
Composer = Dream Theater
Label = Mechanic Records
Producer = Terry Date and Dream Theater
prev = "A Fortune in Lies"
prev_no = 1
next = "Ytse Jam"
next_no = 3"Status Seeker" is a song by progressive metal band Dream Theater. It is the second track on the their first album "When Dream and Day Unite". Lyrics are co-written by Charlie Dominici and John Petrucci.

According to John Petrucci, "Status Seeker" was the band's attempt, prompted by their record label, to put their 'sound' into a more radio friendly format. To this end, the song is almost a full minute shorter than any other song on the album, and can be said, not unfairly, to have a much more commercial sound than the other tracks.

The music for the song was written first, the completion of which prompted John Petrucci and Charlie Dominici to go and write some lyrics. Instead, however, they got drunk and started to complain about the mass of people who had written them off, who had told them to go get real jobs and to cut their hair until they had got a record deal, upon which they had suddenly become very supportive of the band (the lyric "I want to know you now, you know I always believed in you" is indicative of this change in attitude). This prompted the subject of the song.