Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence II. About to Crash Lyrics

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