Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The Six Degrees Pt.3: Explanation

Well, setelah membaca artikel sebelumnya, kali ini datanglah artikel yang akan menjelaskan maksud dari lagu Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.......satu per satu.



Oke, dimulai dari Overture.
Menurut kamus, Overture berarti musik pembuka. Ya, seperti musik pembuka lainnya, tidak mengandung arti khusus dalam lagu ini, hanya sebagai intro. Musik orkestra dipiih mereka sebagai intro, ini menambah kesan "wah" pada lagu tersebut.

Selanjutnya adalah About To Crash.
Lagu ini menceritakan seorang perempuan yang memiliki kelainan mental berupa bipolar. Bipolar merupakan kelainan mental yang mengacu pada perubahan suasana hati seseorang dari senang (mania) ke sedih (depresi) secara ekstrim, atau sebaliknya.
"She can't stop pacing, she never felt so alive, her thoughts are racing, set on overdrive" menandakan ketika ia sedang bahagia, dan kesedihan ekstremnya ditandai dengan "Then one day she woke up to find a perfect girl has lost her mind". Sedangkan untuk "He helplessly stands by, it's meaningless to try......" merupakan perwakilan perasaan dari sang ayah (diketahui dari "She was raised in a small midwestern town by a charming and eccentric loving father") ketika kelainan anaknya semakin bertambah buruk.

War Inside My Head bercerita tentang post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) yang biasa diderita oleh tentara yang pernah ikut berperang. Diceritakan di lagu ini seorang veteran perang Vietnam ("Napalm showers" merujuk ke perang Vietnam). Liriknya sendiri pun sudah menjelaskan keadaan perang yang dialaminya.

Yang keempat adalah The Test That Stumped Them All. Lagu ini menceritakan tentang skizofrenia,  gangguan kejiwaan dan kondisi medis yang mempengaruhi fungsi otak manusia, mempengaruhi fungsi normal kognitif, emosional dan tingkah laku.yang sering kali diikuti dengan delusi (keyakinan yang salah) dan halusinasi (persepsi tanpa ada rangsang pancaindra). "The boy is simply crazy / Suffering from delusion ... He lives in a world of fiction." lebih dari cukup untuk menunjukkan bahwa lagu ini memang menggambarkan seseorang yang menderita skizofrenia.



Kemudian ada Goodnight Kiss yang menceritakan tentang post-partum depression atau depresi pasca melahirkan. Depresi ini biasanya muncul ketika seseorang melahirkan, namun bayi yang dilahirkan tidak selamat ("Are you lonely without mommy's love..?" dan "I'm so lonely without baby's love"). Parahnya lagi, dalam lagu ini, penderita bukan hanya sekali mengalaminya, namun (setidaknya) dua kali.

"It's been five years to the day and my tainted blood's still the same. Can't help acting this way and those bastards doctors are gonna pay". Dijelaskan bahwa ia sudah dua kali kehilangan bayinya, dan itu (mungkin) karena kesalahan dokter yang menanganinya jika dilihat dari sisi penderita. Didukung juga oleh suara tawa pria dan tangis perempuan pada lagu untuk bagian ini.

Seolah tanpa terputus, lagu terus berlanjut ke bagian enam, Solitary Shell. Lagu ini bercerita tentang sindrom Asperger, yang merupakan salah satu gejala dari autisme. Namun, sindrom ini sendiri berbeda dengan autisme karena kemampuan linguistik dan kognitif para penderitanya yang relatif tidak mengalami penurunan, bahkan dengan IQ yang relatif tinggi atau rata-rata. Salah satu gejala sindrom ini adalah cenderung memiliki kesulitan untuk memahami bentuk-bentuk komunikasi non-verbal serta kata-kata yang memiliki banyak arti, juga cenderung mengurung diri ("He learned to walk and talk on time, but never care much to be held. And steadily he would decline into his solitary shell. As a boy he was considered somewhat odd, captured himself most of the time."). Pada bagian akhir lagu, diceritakan bahwa keluarganya mulai memintanya untuk terbuka ("When will he be led out of his solitary shell?").

Bagian ke tujuh, About To Crash (Reprise), merupakan lanjutan dari bagian sebelumnya, About To Crash. Pada bagian ini diceritakan bahwa dia sedang dalam keadaan mania ("I'm alive again, darkness far behind me. I'm invincible, despair will never find me. I feel strong, I've got a new sense of elation, boundless energy, euphoria fixation") namun tiba-tiba menjadi depresi ("Still it's hard just to get by, seems so meaningless to try when all I want to do is cry. Who would ever knew I felt so sad dst...")

Terakhir, adalah Losing Time/Grand Finale.
Pemberian garis miring tersebut sebenarnya mengartikan bahwa bagian ini ada 2 sub judul, yakni Losing Time  dan Grand Finale.

  1. Losing Time bercerita tentang gangguan mental identitas disasosiatf atau pemecah kepribadian, atau sering kita sebut dengan istilah alter ego. Lagu ini menunjukkan bahwa ia merasa ia bukanlah bagian dari hidupnya yang nantinya menyiratkan bahwa ia telah kehilangan waktu hidupnya. Dalam lagu ini juga diceritakan bagian tergepal dari penderita gangguan ini adalah ia membuat kepribadian alternatif untuk mengatasi segala masalah yang dideritanya ("She learned to detached from herself, a behavior that kept her alive" / Ia belajar untuk lepas dari dirinya, sebuah kebiasaan yang membuatnya tetap hidup).
  2. Grand Finale merupakan sebuah kesimpulan dari seluruh lagu, dibuat agar pendengar lebih memahami makna lagu. Deception of fame (The Test That Stumped Them All), vengeance of war (War Inside My Head), lives torn apart (Goodnight Kiss), losing oneself (Losing Time), spiraling down (About To Crash dan About To Crash (Reprise)), feeling the walls closing in (Solitary Shell). Ditutup dengan "A journey to find the answers inside of our elusive minds" (perjalanan untuk menemukan jawaban dari pemikiran kita yang sulit dipahami).

"Hope in the face of our human distress helps us to understands the turbulence deep inside that takes hopes of our lives.
Shame and disgrace over mental unrest keeps us from saving those we love, the grace within our hearts, and the sorrow in our soul."
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: VIII. Losing Time/Grand Finale by Dream Theater


Source:

The Six Degrees Pt.2: Lyric


I. OVERTURE
[instrumental]

II. ABOUT TO CRASH
She can't stop pacing
She never felt so alive
Her thoughts are racing
Set on overdrive

It takes a village
That 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

III. WAR INSIDE MY HEAD
Napalm showers
Showed the cowards
We weren't there to mess around

Through heat exhaustion
And mind distortion
A military victory mounted on innocent ground

Hearing voices from miles away...
(Saying things never said)
Seeing shadows in the light of the day...
(Waging a war inside my head)

Years and years of
Bloodshed and warfare
Our mission was only to get in and kill

A free vacation
Of palmtrees and shrapnel
Trading innocence for permanent psychotic hell

Hearing voices from miles away...
(Saying things never said)
Seeing shadows in the light of the day...
(Waging a war inside my head)

Feeling strangers staring my way...
(Reading minds never read)
Tasting danger with each word I say...
(Waging a war inside my...)

IV. THE TEST THAT STUMPED THEM ALL
Standing in the darkness
Waiting for the light
The smell of pure adrenaline
Burning in the night

Random blinding flashes
Aiming at the stage
Intro tape begins to roll
Igniting sonic rage

Still they keep me between these hollow walls
Hoping to find in me the answers to the test that stumped them all

The boy is simply crazy
(Suffering from delusions)
We honestly think that maybe
(He might need an institution)

He lives in a world of fiction
(And really could use some help)
We have just the place to fix him
To save him from himself

Curled up in the darkness
Searching for the light
The smell of stale sweat and shit
Streaming through the night

Random urine testing
Pills red, pink and blue
Counseling and therapy
Providing not a clue

Still they keep me between these hollow walls
Hoping to find in me the answers to the test that stumped them all

We can't seem to find the answers
(He seemed such a clear cut case)
We cannot just let him leave here
(And put all this work to waste)

Why don't we try shock treatment
(It really might do some help)
We have just the tools to fix him
To save him from himself

V. GOODNIGHT KISS
Goodnight kiss in your nightgown
Lavender in your bed
So innocent as you lie down
Sweet dreams that run through your head

Are you lonely without Mommy's love?
I want you to know I'd die for that moment
You're just a poor girl
Afraid of this cruel world
Taken away from it all

It's been 5 years to the day and
My tainted blood's still the same
I can't help acting this way and
Those bastard doctors are gonna pay

I'm so lonely without baby's love
I want you to know I'd die for one more moment
I'm just a poor girl
Afraid of this cruel world
Taken away from it all

VI. SOLITARY SHELL
He seemed no different from the rest
Just a healthy normal boy
His mama always did her best
And he was daddy's pride and joy

He learned to walk and talk on time
But never cared much to be held
And steadily he would decline
Into his solitary shell

As a boy he was considered somewhat odd
Kept to himself most of the time
He would daydream in and out of his own world
But in every other way he was fine

He's a Monday morning lunatic
Disturbed from time to time
Lost within himself
In his solitary shell

A temporary catatonic
Madman on occasion
When will he break out
Of his solitary shell

He struggled to get through his day
He was helplessly behind
He poured himself onto the page
Writing for hours at a time

As a man he was a danger to himself
Fearful and sad most of the time
He was drifting in and out of sanity
But in every other way he was fine

He's a Monday morning lunatic
Disturbed from time to time
Lost within himself
In his solitary shell

A momentary maniac
With casual delusions
When will he be let out
Of his solitary shell

VII. ABOUT TO CRASH (REPRISE)
I'm alive again
The darkness far behind me
I'm invincible
Despair will never find me

I feel strong
I've got a new sense of elation
Boundless energy
Euphoria fixation

Still it's hard to just get by
It seems so meaningless to try
When all I want to do is cry
Who would ever know I felt so sad

Even though I get so high
I know that I will never fly
And when I fall out of the sky
Who'll be standing by..?

Will you be standing by..?

VIII. LOSING TIME/GRAND FINALE
She dresses in black everyday
She keeps her hair simple and plain
She never wears makeup
But no one would care if she did anyway

She doesn't recall yesterday
Faces seem twisted and strange
But she always wakes up
Only to find she'd been miles away

Absence of awareness
Losing time
A lapse of perception
Losing time

Wanting to escape
She had created a way to survive
She learned to detach from herself
A behavior that kept her alive

Hope in the face of our human distress
Helps us to understand the turbulence deep inside that takes hold of our lives

Shame and disgrace over mental unrest
Keeps us from saving those we love, the grace within our hearts, and the sorrow in our souls

Deception of fame
Vengeance of war
Lives torn apart
Losing oneself
Spiraling down
Feeling the walls closing in

A journey to find the answers inside of our illusive mind...


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