6DOIT CD1 is a concept album about a girl's misery

[Darkstarshades]

This is a conclusion I've drawn after hearing the first 5 songs various times... It's really disturbing.
(It is recommended that if you don't know the lyrics well, read them while you read this)

So, this is the story of a girl who suffers from a series of misfortunes through the 5 song set, let me explain.

The Glass Prison: Firstly, we learn about this girl, who is clearly an alcoholic (or maybe addicted to smth else?) who struggles with this and realises that it has to stop, so she gets into the AA program, which is fairly religious btw. She was apparently dating someone but the person left her because of her addictions, thus, she decides to get rid of this. After a strong struggle in her mind (represented by the instrumental section), she grows convinced that God is the only one who can stop this, and leaves her faith in his hands.

Blind Faith: Months pass by, but she is unable to leave her addictions, she continues to consume alcohol even though she had promised not to. Begs to God to stop it, but it doesn't work. She begins to wonder on whether or not God actually cares about her, and begins to lose her faith. The entire song deals with her making up her mind and deciding that it is just not worth it.
"Hear me, speaking, asking why I even bother"
"I've painted my own Mona Lisa, she's fixed everything, Now I'm spoiled beyond my wildest dreams"
"Take the streets, the beaten path"
The instrumental section represents her final duel with God and eventually severing all ties with him.

Misunderstood: Having convinced herself that God can't save her, she leaves the AA and starts to think backwards (represented by the reversed JP solo) of her life. She realizes that her life is meaningless, and that even though she has been surrounded by people, it has been useless: Not only has God been unable to save her, but the people around her do no good either. She sees that she was Once happy, but now she's just a shadow of her being and sets herself deeper into her addiction. Goes bankrupt, becoming a beggar. She loses control of herself, submerged in delusion and had also lost her love, pure disdain for herself.

Upon seeing the misery of life she has, she decides to end her life through unspecified means, which she carries at her home. The last mess strange 3 minutes of the song deal with this. With whathever she has done to end her existence affecting her brain and thoughts, making a lot of random noise, which also represents utter desesperation. In the end, everything falls silent.

The Great Debate: Her ex-boyfriend, who loved her dearly but couldn't be with her because she just made him suffer because of how much much he loved her, learns about this. Unfortunately, her suicide failed, and she's left in a paralyzed state where she's conscious, but unable to do basically anything and several senses lost.
He gets into the stem cell experimentation, desperately seeking a way to heal her and return her to awareness. Learns about all it does (since he's a medicine student) and what it takes, and takes testimonies from other people. A medic especialized in this offers him something that MIGHT be able to save her, but it involves ending innocent newborn lives, so he has to deal with this.
He debates in his mind whether or not this is the right thing to do, and puts the good and the bad things to see what he's going to do.

Disappear: In the end, however, his morale wins, and he decides that he cannot sacrifice other people's lives for his own desire. Since she had basically no close family members left, he signs and agrees to euthanize her. Accepting her end and being in total misery, suffering because he remembers the good times she had with her, but regretting forever for not being with her. In the end, he realizes that she'd want him to move on, and he does.

[JayOctavarium]

ummmm


What?

[Outcrier]

I cried.

[JayOctavarium]

I Outcried.

FIFY

[jammindude]

A ****HUGE**** stretch....but I I love the creativity of it so much that I'm going to give it a 

Translation:  While completely apocryphal, it's so "romantic" that I find myself loving it anyway. 

[erwinrafael]

A ****HUGE**** stretch....but I I love the creativity of it so much that I'm going to give it a 

Translation:  While completely apocryphal, it's so "romantic" that I find myself loving it anyway.

Yeah, the interpretation is very creative, that the only thing ruining my enjoyment is that Mike Portnoy keeps on whispering to my ear that The Glass Prison is obviously about him. 

Nice twist, Darkstarshades. I hope it makes your enjoyment of the CD much better.

[Train of Naught]

Holy shit this really opened my eyes, I now realize that A Dramatic Turn of Events is a concept album about a clown balancing a rope!

[Mladen]

Wonderful take on the concept, although there's like 0.1% chance that it's true. Still, it's so cool to see fans being able to build up their own interpretations. 

[hefdaddy42]

6DOIT CD1 is a concept album about a girl's misery

No it's not.

[TAC]

OP, Dude, lay off the 

[TheCountOfNYC]

This is really well thought out. Good job man. I actually would love to see someone write a full script around this and find a way to fit disc two into the story as well. I movie based on SDoIT would be awesome.

[JayOctavarium]

Awake is a out sliderman

[erwinrafael]

I am using Caught in a Web in my class on the subject of social structures and individual agency. I'm looking at how to use other DT songs to show sociological concepts.

Hand. Cannot. Erase by Steve Wilsom is to be incorporated, to demo the modern society of strangers.

[JediKnight1969]

6DOIT CD1 is a concept album about a girl's misery

No it's not.

This. Period. Move on people.

[chaossystem]

This reminds me of something I read some years ago where someone took Queensryche's Rage for Order and extrapolated it into a prequel for Operation:MindCrime!

[Zook]

That's a cool interpretation.

Awake is a out sliderman

Go home, you're drunk.

[RaiseTheKnife]

I suppose the girl's name is Victoria and the guy is Nicholas?

[Darkstarshades]

I suppose the girl's name is Victoria and the guy is Nicholas?

It's probably Nicholas's son.

[LCArenas]

Gonna be honest with you mane. Even though I know that is not true the theory seemed quite plausible...

Until The Great Debate. Sorry. It's too big of a stretch for me to not notice it.

[Darkstarshades]

Gonna be honest with you mane. Even though I know that is not true the theory seemed quite plausible...

Until The Great Debate. Sorry. It's too big of a stretch for me to not notice it.

The whole deal was done with humoristic purposes, similar to the Awake-Spiderman. I never liked the Awake/Spiderman thing outside of it being a simple joke because I never felt there was any reason to think that outside of "Mary Jane" and Caught in a Web.

I am, however, convinced that there was some thought behind this album other than just being "6 aspects or troubles of life" or "It has to be 6 songs because it's the 6th album".
However, this is the reason why I feel The Great Debate is out of place here, since it's the only lyric that doesn't deal with any specific individual emotional matter (whether it's by a band member or a fictional individual), and also the fact that TGP-BF-Misunderstood all grow progressively slower and more depressive until the slowest and most depressive of all: Disappear, yet TGB is there and that's... somewhere between BF and Misunderstood, yet at the same time it just feels so fitting to the rest of the songs right there.
Besides, there wasn't that much else to do with Misunderstood-TGD transition.
I like to think that DT purposely made this album to grow progressively more desperate, sadder and more depressive as it went on (I don't know you, but I've always thought the Overture is actually a tragic piece of music, I feel like it's very, very sad), until finally begging the listener to be more appreciative and tolerant with people going through hard emotional problems, either a disease, a trauma or an moral argue.

[wolfking]

I came in here ready to laugh and make fun of you, but after reading your post, I thought even though it's not, it was a great read and very creative representation, and actually kind of worked.

[Dublagent66]

Pretty creative and imaginative.

6DOIT CD1 is a concept album about a girl's misery

No it's not.

This. Period. Move on people.

You guys really thought the OP was being serious?    

[ReaPsTA]

That's a cool interpretation.

Awake is a out sliderman

Go home, you're drunk.

lol

[Kotowboy]

You can pretty much make a case for anything if you over analyse and contrive enough.

Like that video that says that one Star Wars extra who is on screen for 1 second is pivotal to the entire plot.

[Elite]

Like that video that says that one Star Wars extra who is on screen for 1 second is pivotal to the entire plot.

What's that video?

[Darkstarshades]

Well, I don't think this is exaggerated.
Exaggerated would be, like...
Building a theory around the "Older man" in Fatal Tragedy and saying that he's an ancient magician that can travel through space and time and is the main responsible por reincarnating character souls, thus explaining why he knows about that stuff and happened to come across Nicholas. He's als responsible for the nightmares and that and, that's similar to that Star Wars business.

[Nekov]

It's a bit far fetched but otherwise a cool interpretation of the album. I like it

Well, I don't think this is exaggerated.
Exaggerated would be, like...
Building a theory around the "Older man" in Fatal Tragedy and saying that he's an ancient magician that can travel through space and time and is the main responsible por reincarnating character souls, thus explaining why he knows about that stuff and happened to come across Nicholas. He's als responsible for the nightmares and that and, that's similar to that Star Wars business.

[paulstfu]

6DOIT CD1 is a concept album about a girl's misery

No it's not.

We all know it's not, but it's a truly great interpretation, a bit forced, but great 

[Lucien]

6DOIT CD1 is a concept album about a girl's misery

No it's not.

This. Period. Move on people.

You guys really thought the OP was being serious?    

[hefdaddy42]

No.

But Awake really IS about Spider-Man.

[bosk1]

No.

But Awake really IS about Spider-Man.

This.

[JediKnight1969]

No.

But Awake really IS about Spider-Man.

This.

I'm pretty sure is about Sleeping Beauty.

[bosk1]

No.

But Awake really IS about Spider-Man.

This.

I'm pretty sure is about Sleeping Beauty.

[Darkstarshades]

Awake is about a band who starts a musical journey, determined to create something more popular than their breakout album.

[hefdaddy42]