What Rush lyrics have had the most profound affect on you?

[anima]

It's difficult to know where to start. I am a recent convert to Rush and their music has been the backdrop to everything for the past year. It was an eventful year (not in a good way) and Rush have literally kept me going throughout everything.

 

Bravado, The Garden and Wish Them Well have had a profound effect at specific times. And, more surprisingly:

"Why are we here?

Because we're here!

Roll the bones!"

 

I read the words of Bravado at a church service about 6 weeks ago and converted the vicar to Rush, by the way (not joking!)

[Lorraine]

I read the words of Bravado at a church service about 6 weeks ago and converted the vicar to Rush...

 

That's hysterical. Neil would have a fit. Oh, the irony!!! :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy:

[LittleRushmonkey]

Thank your stars you're not that way

Turn your back and walk away

Don't even pause and ask them why

Turn around and say goodbye

 

&

 

The whole of far cry.

 

 

They haven't really had a big effect me but I think that they are great really meaningful lyrics. Almost all rush songs have great meaningful lyrics but these 2, in my opinion, stand out from the crowd.

 

Sorry about the text, my tablet went funny when I tried to copy and paste the lyrics.

[Lorraine]

Thank your stars you're not that way

Turn your back and walk away

Don't even pause and ask them why

Turn around and say goodbye

 

I love these lyrics too.

[Disk98]

If we keep our pride

Though paradise is lost

We will pay the price

But we will not count the cost…

 

--(Bravado)

[Johnny Gilbert]

 

"To you...is it movement or is it action?

Is it contact, or just reaction?

 

And you...revolution or just resistance?

Is it living, or just existence?

 

Yeah, you!...it takes a little more persistence,

to get up and go the distance..."

 

 

(The Enemy Within)

 

 

 

Edited June 1, 2014 by Johnny Gilbert

[Lorraine]

You know what I love about Neil's lyrics the most? When all seems hopeless in your life, when you think "what's the use?", his lyrics give you the inner strength to get up and go on. And try again. Even though you have a long list of failures trailing behind you. Edited June 2, 2014 by Lorraine

[EagleMoon]

You know what I love about Neil's lyrics the most? When all seems hopeless in your life, when you think "what's the use?", his lyrics give you the inner strength to get up and go on. And try again. Even though you have a long list of failures trailing behind you.

 

I think because he is so good at describing events and emotions that so many people have experienced and felt in such a descriptive and thought-provoking way.

[Lorraine]

You know what I love about Neil's lyrics the most? When all seems hopeless in your life, when you think "what's the use?", his lyrics give you the inner strength to get up and go on. And try again. Even though you have a long list of failures trailing behind you.

 

I think because he is so good at describing events and emotions that so many people have experienced and felt in such a descriptive and thought-provoking way.

 

I have to give credit too to the music writers ( :laughing guy: ). It all fits together to give someone hope and inner strength rather than despair and pushing you over the edge.

[EagleMoon]

You know what I love about Neil's lyrics the most? When all seems hopeless in your life, when you think "what's the use?", his lyrics give you the inner strength to get up and go on. And try again. Even though you have a long list of failures trailing behind you.

 

I think because he is so good at describing events and emotions that so many people have experienced and felt in such a descriptive and thought-provoking way.

 

I have to give credit too to the music writers ( :laughing guy: ). It all fits together to give someone hope and inner strength rather than despair and pushing you over the edge.

 

I was thinking about my comment after I made it and another thing I think that helps is that Neil is such a realist. He sees life without false hopes dreams or expectations. Many of his lyrics promote strength and moving beyond troubles and problems in life without expecting help from a higher power or being. Encouraging strength rather than weakness.

[Johnny Gilbert]

You know what I love about Neil's lyrics the most? When all seems hopeless in your life, when you think "what's the use?", his lyrics give you the inner strength to get up and go on. And try again. Even though you have a long list of failures trailing behind you.

 

Well said! And so true.

 

 

Edited June 3, 2014 by Johnny Gilbert

[coventry]

If we keep our pride

Though paradise is lost

We will pay the price

But we will not count the cost…

 

--(Bravado)

 

Great lines; the last two are taken from Barth's novel Tidewater Tales (Barth himself took them from cultural lore; they might be proverbial?)

[Spaghetti Lee]

"I just like to please, don't like to tease

I'm easy like a bat

I like big chests, don't like long rests

I'm an impatient cat"

 

 

"Like some captain

Who sh*ts on the ground"

 

 

"Like a pilgrim

Who loves to trans-gend"

[SUBDIVISIONS]

Sometimes our big splashes are just ripples in the pool

[Spaghetti Lee]

"Hey Alex it's a quarter to eight

I feel I'm in the mood

 

Hey Alex the hour is late

I feel I've gots the moobs"

[Snaked]

YEAH! OHHHHHHH YEAH!!!

[Tony R]

Didacts and Narpets. Had me scratching my head for days.

[Spaghetti Lee]

"We are the plumbers

We'll fix...your sinks

 

With so many wrenches

We'll fix your sink"

 

4/8/83

Edited June 5, 2014 by Spaghetti Lee

[Mr. Not]

Limelight "all the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players, performers and portrayers."

Witch Hunt

Subdivisions / Analog Kid

[Spaghetti Lee]

"One...

Two t-t-t-t-t-t-t...

Butthole

Ma

Shoe...

 

Bip"

 

 

 

 

"In the End" from All the World's A Stage

Edited June 5, 2014 by Spaghetti Lee

[Rutlefan]

Well-weathered leather

Hot metal and oil

The scented country air

Sunlight on chrome

The blur of the landscape

Every nerve aware

 

While several of Neil's views don't necessarily resonate with me, I do definitely share his romantic relationship with classic machines (as well as his wariness regarding an overreaching regulatory gov't bureaucracy). This just might be my favorite song ever. I just bought a beautiful Alfa GTV6 for about what a ten year-old Corolla would cost (Alfas are not expensive to own at all unless you're uninclined to turn a wrench). Sweetest production V6 ever. Life is good. Just have to keep the air cars and EPA at bay (at least those coal-burning plug-in electrics will help save the petrol for those like Neil).

[coventry]

Well-weathered leather

Hot metal and oil

The scented country air

Sunlight on chrome

The blur of the landscape

Every nerve aware

 

While several of Neil's views don't necessarily resonate with me, I do definitely share his romantic relationship with classic machines (as well as his wariness regarding an overreaching regulatory gov't bureaucracy). This just might be my favorite song ever. I just bought a beautiful Alfa GTV6 for about what a ten year-old Corolla would cost (Alfas are not expensive to own at all unless you're uninclined to turn a wrench). Sweetest production V6 ever. Life is good. Just have to keep the air cars and EPA at bay (at least those coal-burning plug-in electrics will help save the petrol for those like Neil).

 

The EPA is why you're still breathing more-or-less clean air - especially in the mid-Atlantic. But yes, having driven a few AR's (my favorite being the '81 Sud that just kept on going...), I know what you mean.

[Rutlefan]

Should add too that no song has ever mesmerized me like Xanadu did as a 12 year-old. Even today Frank Capra's Lost Horizon remains one of my very favorite films -- as far as I can tell, Xanadu is an amalgam of Coleridge (of course) and James Hilton's Lost Horizon (upon which the Capra film is based) -- and I still love Xanadu. Edited June 5, 2014 by Rutlefan

[Rutlefan]

Well-weathered leather

Hot metal and oil

The scented country air

Sunlight on chrome

The blur of the landscape

Every nerve aware

 

While several of Neil's views don't necessarily resonate with me, I do definitely share his romantic relationship with classic machines (as well as his wariness regarding an overreaching regulatory gov't bureaucracy). This just might be my favorite song ever. I just bought a beautiful Alfa GTV6 for about what a ten year-old Corolla would cost (Alfas are not expensive to own at all unless you're uninclined to turn a wrench). Sweetest production V6 ever. Life is good. Just have to keep the air cars and EPA at bay (at least those coal-burning plug-in electrics will help save the petrol for those like Neil).

 

The EPA is why you're still breathing more-or-less clean air - especially in the mid-Atlantic. But yes, having driven a few AR's (my favorite being the '81 Sud that just kept on going...), I know what you mean.

 

In reality, I've little problem with the EPA; I mention it as a widely-recognized (reactionary?) symbol of restrictive regulation, though most of that characterization is actually unfair, as you note. In the hands of some, though, it is often an instrument of stupidity (kind of like religion, for instance, for which many environmentalism serves; good intentions, but in the wrong hands, misses the point).

 

Love the Alfa anecdote :).

Edited June 5, 2014 by Rutlefan

[Geddy's Soul Patch]

Well-weathered leather

Hot metal and oil

The scented country air

Sunlight on chrome

The blur of the landscape

Every nerve aware

 

While several of Neil's views don't necessarily resonate with me, I do definitely share his romantic relationship with classic machines (as well as his wariness regarding an overreaching regulatory gov't bureaucracy). This just might be my favorite song ever. I just bought a beautiful Alfa GTV6 for about what a ten year-old Corolla would cost (Alfas are not expensive to own at all unless you're uninclined to turn a wrench). Sweetest production V6 ever. Life is good. Just have to keep the air cars and EPA at bay (at least those coal-burning plug-in electrics will help save the petrol for those like Neil).

 

The EPA is why you're still breathing more-or-less clean air - especially in the mid-Atlantic. But yes, having driven a few AR's (my favorite being the '81 Sud that just kept on going...), I know what you mean.

Good one...