Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence [Full Song/Lyrics]

Sama_El
Published on Aug 30, 2024
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is the sixth song and title track on the album of the same name, written and performed by progressive metal band Dream Theater. Though the song is essentially broken up into eight movements on separate tracks, the song itself is 42 minutes long and takes up the entire second CD of the album.

Enjoy the turbulence!

TRACK LIST

I. Overture – 00:00
II. About To Crash – 06:55
III. War Inside My Head – 12:46
IV. The Test That Stumped Them All – 14:53
V. Goodnight Kiss – 19:56
VI. Solitary Shell – 26:14
VII. About To Crash (Reprise) – 32:02
VIII. Losing Time (Grand Finale) – 36:04

LYRICS

The lyrics of the song never stay on one particular subject, instead describing each of the six people (referred to as the Six Degrees). Each of these people suffers from a different mental disability, and all six disabilities are described in the lyrics.

The first movement, Overture, is an instrumental, which means it doesn't describe any of these disabilities, and the lyrics for the seventh movement. About To Crash tells of a girl (Degree 1) who has one of the most well-known of all mental illnesses: Bipolar Disorder. War Inside My Head tells the story of someone (Degree 2) who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, as some soldiers do after war. The Test That Stumped Them All tells about a patient (Degree 3) that is suffering from schizophrenia. Goodnight Kiss is about a mother (Degree 4) who has lost her child, in one form or another, and is suffering from post-partum depression. Solitary Shell tells about a person (Degree 5) that most likely has Asperger syndrome. About to Crash (Reprise) carries on from where About to Crash left off. This time the song is sung from the sufferer's point of view and describes her going through another manic episode and Losing Time is about a girl (Degree 6) suffering from dissociative identity disorder, previously called Multiple Personality Disorder.

In Grand Finale, the lyrics advise the listener to be more understanding of the people who carry these and similar afflictions, and to accept them as they should be. This section, in which the degrees described by the song are summed up in six lines: Deception of fame (Degree 3: The Test That Stumped Them All), Vengeance of war (Degree 2: War Inside My Head), Lives torn apart (Degree 4: Goodnight Kiss), Losing oneself (Degree 6: Losing Time), Spiraling down (Degree 1: About To Crash (and Reprise)) and Feeling the walls closing in (Degree 5: Solitary Shell).

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