Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

  6th Degree - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
  music by Myung, Petrucci, Portnoy, Rudess


II. ABOUT TO CRASH - [lyrics by John Petrucci] [05:51]

  She can't stop pacing
  She never felt so alive
  Her thoughts are racing
  Set on overdrive

  It takes a village
  This she knows is true
  they're expecting her
  And she's got work to do

  He helplessly stands by
  It's meaningless to try
  As he rubs his red-rimmed eyes
  He says I've never seen her get this bad

  Even though she seems so high
  He knows that she can't fly
  and when she falls out of the sky
  He'll be standing by

  She was raised in a small midwestern town
  By a charming and eccentric loving father
  She was praised as the perfect teenage girl
  And everyone thought highly of her

  And she tried everyday
  With endless drive
  To make the grade
  Then one day
  She woke up to find
  The perfect girl
  Had lost her mind

  Once barely taking a break
  Now she sleeps the days away
  She helplessly stands by
  It's meaningless to try
  All she wants to do is cry
  No one ever knew she was so sad

  Cause even though she gets so high
  And thinks that she can fly
  She will fall out of the sky
  But in the face of misery
  She found hopefulness
  Feeling better
  She had weathered
  This depression

  Much to her advantage
  She resumed her frantic pace
  Boundless power
  Midnight hour
  She enjoyed the race