Your least favorite song lyrics Neil have ever written?

[micgtr71]

There are so many from 89 on...probably dog years, T4E, or half the world

[tomhealey]

Countdown. Always sounds forced to me, like "well, we got invited here by NASA as special guests, I suppose I should write about the majesty and grandeur or some such thing...".

[Aikenrooster]

Half the World.

 

Phoned in crap that could have been written for a fourth grade poetry contest and would have finished as an also ran.

Although mathematically incorrrect, as one has to take "half the world" in its figurative sense, what is it specifically that you hate about the song, lyrically speaking? He's sort of right about the riff raff, isn't he?

[Aikenrooster]

The song I hate the worst, lyrically speaking, is "Headlong Flight." The music kicks ass, but I disagree with everything in that song.

[laughedatbytime]

Half the World.

 

Phoned in crap that could have been written for a fourth grade poetry contest and would have finished as an also ran.

Although mathematically incorrrect, as one has to take "half the world" in its figurative sense, what is it specifically that you hate about the song, lyrically speaking? He's sort of right about the riff raff, isn't he?

It feels like he spent about 15 minutes writing it. It's trite and it doesn't contain any real insight that most of us didn't have by the time we're 13.

 

Neil was in the half of the world wasting the day when he wrote this, not in the half that cared. The only positive thing about the lyrics is that they don't contain the words "hood boy" or "net girl". The worst lyrical effort in an album full of bad ones.

[jnoble]

Hmm..let's see which Neil lyrics really rankle me...

 

Second Nature

Red Tide

Speed Of Love

Animate

Alien Shore

Virtuality (so dated. So, so dated)

Peaceable Kingdom

 

Pretty much everything on Snakes aside from Far Cry

 

The Garden

[jnoble]

"Body Electric" for sure. "... clenching plastic fist!"

 

And I don't like "Faithless" at all.

 

 

This will get me in trouble, but I like "Half the World" and I love "Big Wheel."

 

I like that we all love the same band, and love -- and not -- different songs.

 

I like those songs too. Don't LOVE them, but like them.

[Lucas]

Let's dance tonight

To a virtual song

Press this key

And you can play along

 

Let's fly tonight

On our virtual wings

Press this key

To see amazing things

 

 

... for this, Neil should be dick-slapped

[Digital Dad]

Hmm..let's see which Neil lyrics really rankle me...

 

Second Nature

Red Tide

Speed Of Love

Animate

Alien Shore

Virtuality (so dated. So, so dated)

Peaceable Kingdom

 

Pretty much everything on Snakes aside from Far Cry

 

The Garden

 

I have always said the lyrics of Second Nature are pretty trite, but the arrangement of the song and the vocal performance set it above some of the others, like half of RtB. I love the song quite frankly despite the somewhat mundane sentiments the song puts across. One of the odd ones for me, but I have a soft spot for HYF so there ya go.

[Disembodied Spirit]

The Maples formed a Union.

And demanded equal rights.

 

"These rogue forest Unions will be the death of the forest" Per Senator Large B. Oak

[bluefox4000]

Did i say The Garden........cause sentiment aside. I feel like i'm at a big cheesy church gathering every time.

 

Mick

[Lorraine]

Did i say The Garden........cause sentiment aside. I feel like i'm at a big cheesy church gathering every time.

 

Mick

That was funny.

[Disembodied Spirit]

Did i say The Garden........cause sentiment aside. I feel like i'm at a big cheesy church gathering every time.

 

Mick

You are not alone.

Preach on brother

[EagleMoon]

Did i say The Garden........cause sentiment aside. I feel like i'm at a big cheesy church gathering every time.

 

Mick

 

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[Super25Smasher]

The Speed Of Love = :laughing guy: :tsk: :( :zzz: :| :boohoo: :boo hiss: :laughing yellow guy:

[Super25Smasher]

Did i say The Garden........cause sentiment aside. I feel like i'm at a big cheesy church gathering every time.

 

Mick

 

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There is no ****ing drummer better than Neil Peart!!!

[rocket ignites]

Net boy with pants around ankles talking to net girl about the speed of love for the win.

[GabesCavesOfIce]

 

Setting, in the Canadian woods, mid 70s, parallel universe...

 

Neil: ...hey Broonsie, when ya done huffin that doob, swing on by, got some lyrics for a new song

 

Broon: Sure Neil, what ya got?

 

Neil: "It is what it is - and whatever"

 

Broon: WTF. Holy chit! WTF was that?? Seriously man, you can play the skins, but I ain't letting you take down the band with THAT!

 

Hey Ray, get me Rutsey on the phone, Neil's out!

 

 

...sorry, couldn't resist ;)

 

 

[RUSHHEAD666]

Half the World.

 

Phoned in crap that could have been written for a fourth grade poetry contest and would have finished as an also ran.

 

I hate those lyrics. "Dog Years" for me.

[Xanadu]

How can I forget,,,,

 

"Ah yes to yes, to ah to yes."

 

Or some weird shit like that.

 

[goose]

"Dog Years" for me.

You sad son of a bitch.

[goose]

How can I forget,,,,

 

"Ah yes to yes, to ah to yes."

 

Or some weird shit like that.

 

Why the Sun? Why the Sun?

 

:sundog:

[goose]

How can I forget,,,,

 

"Ah yes to yes, to ah to yes."

 

Or some weird shit like that.

 

Why the Sun? Why the Sun?

 

:sundog:

There is a lake between sun and moon

Not too many know about

Some go there for their high noon

Some go there for their midnight moon

It is a moment between silence and shout

Maybe you, might as well me

Why the sun, why the sun

 

Say yes, say yes, ahh say yes to self-esteem

 

We want to escape because we don't want to fall in

The signs are clear and so is the fear

We do not trust the firmness of the ground

 

Then say yes, say yes, ahh say yes to self-esteem

 

There is a fine place between actor and audience

This is the fine line

The fine line of living

This moment experienced

This fine deliverance

Do what you want to do in no ordinary way

Say what you need to say in no ordinary way

And sing what must be sung in no ordinary way

 

Say yes, ahh please, please say yes to self esteem

 

Some go there for their high noon

Some go there fo their midnight moon

 

It is the moment between silent and shout

This is a fine place

Faces face to face

These bonfire eyes

In the lake of the sky

It is our light to land and leave

Never so dark to unravel the weave

Never give up and never say die

 

Do what you need to do in no ordinary way

Say what you need to say in no ordinary way

And sing what must be sung in no ordinary way

 

- Pie Dubois

[Digital Dad]

Like a shipwrecked mariner adrift on an unknown sea

Clinging to the wreckage of the lost ship Fantasy

I'm a castaway, stranded in a desolate land

I can see the footprints in the virtual sand

 

Net boy, net girl

Send your signal 'round the world

Let your fingers walk and talk

And set you free

 

Net boy, net girl

Send your impulse 'round the world

Put your message in a modem

And throw it in the Cyber Sea

 

Astronauts in the weightlessness of pixellated space

Exchange graffiti with a disembodied race

I can save the universe in a grain of sand

I can hold the future in my virtual hand

 

Let's dance tonight

To a virtual song

Press this key

And you can play along

 

Let's fly tonight

On our virtual wings

Press this key

To see amazing things

 

Like a pair of vagabonds who wave between two passing trains

Or the glimpse of a woman's smile through a window in the rain

I can smell her perfume

I can taste her lips

I can feel the voltage from her fingertips

 

Net boy, net girl

Send your heartbeat round the world ow

[goose]

Like a shipwrecked mariner adrift on an unknown sea

Clinging to the wreckage of the lost ship Fantasy

I'm a castaway, stranded in a desolate land

I can see the footprints in the virtual sand

 

Net boy, net girl

Send your signal 'round the world

Let your fingers walk and talk

And set you free

 

Net boy, net girl

Send your impulse 'round the world

Put your message in a modem

And throw it in the Cyber Sea

 

Astronauts in the weightlessness of pixellated space

Exchange graffiti with a disembodied race

I can save the universe in a grain of sand

I can hold the future in my virtual hand

 

Let's dance tonight

To a virtual song

Press this key

And you can play along

 

Let's fly tonight

On our virtual wings

Press this key

To see amazing things

 

Like a pair of vagabonds who wave between two passing trains

Or the glimpse of a woman's smile through a window in the rain

I can smell her perfume

I can taste her lips

I can feel the voltage from her fingertips

 

Net boy, net girl

Send your heartbeat round the world ow

Oh...dear.