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| Dream Theater – Goodnight Kiss Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Since this is part of The Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, the song is certainly about some mental illness. The speaker is obviously battling with intense depression. The question is what spurred the depression.
I used to lean toward postpartum depression/psychosis, which may still be the case. Everything that leads us to believe that her child is dead may be irrational thoughts, associating being with and feeling the love of her child only with the pregnancy. Now that the child is out, she feels no connection to her. Maybe she is also irrationally blaming the doctors for birthing the child. The only thing that troubles me is the part that says it's been 5 years. PPP when left untreated will only last a few months. Perhaps in her psychosis, closer in time to the birth, she killed her child and is now dealing with it.
I don't buy the idea of it being a botched birth. 6DOIT is about severe mental illness, and the depression that would be associated with a stillbirth would be filed away under normal grief. It certainly would not warrant being named one of the degrees. |
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| Dream Theater – The Test That Stumped Them All Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is definitely one of the more difficult degrees of inner turbulence to place. It seems to me the song is describing schizophrenia (please don't confuse schizophrenia with dissociative identity disorder, or "multiple personalities"). My clues are lines like 'suffering from delusions' and 'he lives in a world of fiction.' Anyone else have any ideas? |
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| Dream Theater – About to Crash Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is actually one 42 minute song and it describes 6 different mental ilnesses. This section happens to be about Manic-depression, where a person can be hyperactive and flying high one day and "crash" into severe depression the next. |
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| Dream Theater – The Glass Prison Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song may not be linked to Finally Free, but it is linked to a couple other DT songs. The first is The Mirror, as it is about the exact same thing, although they really are two separate songs. The second is This Dying Soul, which is actually a continuation of this song. |
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