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In 1994, the band released its third studio album, Awake, which was the band's highest charting album to date with Moore, reaching # 32.

The album featured Moore's signature song, a haunting piano-driven ballad called " Space-Dye Vest ," which describes a heartbroken man flipping through a magazine and falling in love with a stranger modeling a vest.

Shortly before the album was mixed, though, Moore announced to the rest of the band that he wished to concentrate on his own musical interests and would be quitting Dream Theater.

According to Portnoy, Moore had grown distant with the other members and was more interested in the independence of working on his own as opposed to the compromise of a band environment.

Although Dream Theater has since invited him to play reunion shows, Moore has said he prefers to move forward as opposed to looking back.

He also declined to take part in the official Dream Theater biography titled Lifting Shadows.