So the song I chose is "Six Degrees of Separation" by the Script. As can be discerned by the title, it is about a breakup, or more specifically the reaction to a breakup. I mostly chose this song because their album is currently in my "music phase" (I just made that name up, I have no idea what to actually call it), but hey it could be a great piece of literature to analyze at the same time. Sorry for the language which I replaced with asterisks.
LYRICS
You've read the books,
You've watched the shows,
What's the best way no one knows, yeah,
Meditate, get hypnotized.
Anything to take from your mind.
But it won't go, ohhhh ohhh
You're doing all these things out of desperation,
Ohhh ohhh,
You're going through six degrees of separation.
You hit the drink, you take a toke
Watch the past go up in smoke, yeah
Fake a smile, yeah, lie and say that,
You're better now than ever, and your life's okay
When it's not. No.
You're doing all these things out of desperation,
Ohhh ohhh,
You're going through six degrees of separation.
First, you think the worst is a broken heart
What's gonna kill you is the second part
And the third, Is when your world splits down the middle
And fourth, you're gonna think that you fixed yourself
Fifth, you see them out with someone else
And the sixth, is when you admit you may have f***** up a little
(Oh no there ain't no help, it's every man for himself)
(No no there ain't no help, it's every man for himself)
You tell your friends, yeah, strangers too,
Anyone who'll throw an arm around you, yeah
Tarot cards
Gems and stones,
Believing all that s*** is gonna heal your soul.
Well it's not, no, wohhhh
You're only doing things out of desperation,
Ohhh no,
You're goin' through six degrees of separation.
First, you think the worst is a broken heart
What's gonna kill you is the second part
And the third, Is when your world splits down the middle
And fourth, you're gonna think that you fixed yourself
Fifth, you see them out with someone else
And the sixth, is when you admit you may have f***** up a little
No there's no starting over,
Without finding closure, you'd take them back,
No hesitation,
That's when you know you've reached the sixth degree of separation
Oh, no there's no starting over,
Without finding closure, you'd take them back,
No hesitation,
That's when you know you've reached the sixth degree of separation
First, you think the worst is a broken heart
What's gonna kill you is the second part
And the third, Is when your world splits down the middle
And fourth, you're gonna think that you fixed yourself
Fifth, you see them out with someone else
And the sixth, is when you admit you may have f***** up a little
No, no, there ain't no help
It's every man for himself
You're goin' through six degrees of separation
No, no, there ain't no help
It's every man for himself
You're goin' through six degrees of separation
[x3: fading]
No, no, there ain't no help
It's every man for himself
I actually looked on Google to see if the song had any allusions and lo and behold it did! "Six Degrees of Separation" is a theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away from introduction. So I could be linked to someone in Italy through a friend, who knows a guy, who's the cousin of this chick who lives in Italy. Tada! Magic. Okay, so maybe not exactly linked to this song, but I will find a way to link it because it seems like more than a coincidence that this song and that theory would have the same name. Plus I am highly suspicious of coincidences. We'll see if I hit something by the end of this blog post.
So the song is about a guy or gal (I'm going to say guy because the guy is the singer) who's going through a breakup and can't find a way to cope with it. He tries a variety of methods in order to forget about her. He begins with meditation then hypnotism, drinking, drugs and smoking, just acting like nothing happened, telling everybody and making them listen, spiritualism, and wealth. Each of these methods are contrasts to one another. I don't know if there's a professional word for this sort of thing, but he goes from meditation (an act of thinking of the situation and revealing the truth to yourself) to hypnotism (having someone deceive you into thinking and doing something else). He goes from acting like life is good to telling everybody about his breakup (independence and dependence). Then he goes from a spiritual route (tarot cards are used to map a spiritual pathway) to physical and material route (the gems and stones represent his pursuit of wealth to forget his pain).
Okay, I'm nearing the end of my blog post and I have not figured out the whole link to the theory. I'll just wing it. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he takes six steps to get through his breakup. The theory is that two objects are linked through a max of six steps, so he's going from a state of depression to a state of acceptance in six steps. I'm probably clutching at straws, he most likely means that there are six phases the dumpee goes through when going through a breakup.
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