Lorraine Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) There are some Rush songs that it isn't so much the lyrics but the way Geddy sings them that affect me. Off the top of my head, I can think of four songs - Rivendell, Hemispheres, Subdivisions and Dreamline - but I know there are others. Rivendell: I've traveled now for many milesIt feels so good to see the smiles ofFriends who never left your mindWhen you were far away A place you can escape the worldWhere the dark lord cannot goPeace of mind and sanctuary by loud water's flow Hemispheres: I bring Love to give you solaceIn the darkness of the nightIn the Heart's eternal lightYou need only trust your feelings;Only Love can steer you right' 'I bring Laughter, I bring MusicI bring Joy and I bring TearsI will soothe your primal fearsThrow off those chains of ReasonAnd your prison disappears' Subdivisions: Some will sell their dreams for small desiresOr lose the race to ratsGet caught in ticking trapsAnd start to dream of somewhereTo relax their restless flight Somewhere out of a memoryOf lighted streets on quiet nights...(especially when he sings this last line) Dreamline: Time is a gypsy caravanSteals away in the nightTo leave you stranded in DreamlandDistance is a long-range filterMemory a flickering lightLeft behind in the heartland How about you? :) Edited January 23, 2016 by Lorraine 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Soliloquy always gets me - especially some of the live versions - "Just think of what my life might be, in a world like I have seen / I don't think I can carry on, carry on this cold and empty life" etc. Also, not so much about being "moved," perhaps, but I still think it's cool that he plays the different "roles" in Presentation - the supplicant hero and the angry, annoyed, superior Priests - just with his voice. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) Soliloquy always gets me - especially some of the live versions - "Just think of what my life might be, in a world like I have seen / I don't think I can carry on, carry on this cold and empty life" etc. Also, not so much about being "moved," perhaps, but I still think it's cool that he plays the different "roles" in Presentation - the supplicant hero and the angry, annoyed, superior Priests - just with his voice. Shows you what a crummy and rotten Rush fan I am - I didn't know he was doing that in Presentation. I never looked into the story behind any of their songs - I just listen :) . But it will give me greater appreciation for the song, and for him, knowing that. Edited January 23, 2016 by Lorraine 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 One more from hemispheres: Their spirits were dividedInto blinded hemispheres 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) This lyric hit me pretty hard... What did I do?Fool that I wasTo profit from youthful mistakes?So shameful to tellJust how often I fellIn love with illusions again ...it is sung with that self awareness of making a mistake you should be long past making. I could so relate to that "old man" raising his head in my life and for falling into the same selfish trap. Edited January 23, 2016 by ReGorLaTroy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 One more from hemispheres: Their spirits were dividedInto blinded hemispheres Yes - pretty spectacular with headphones on, too, as they split the word hemispheres to the far left and right of the stereo spectrum. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I don't know about you guys, but this line moves me to ROCK HARD :haz: 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 One more from hemispheres: Their spirits were dividedInto blinded hemispheres Yes - pretty spectacular with headphones on, too, as they split the word hemispheres to the far left and right of the stereo spectrum.Toymaker, if you dont have the bootleg A Single Perfect Sphere 11-20-78, see if you can find it. Listen to Hemispheres with headphones. I heard Geddy do things on his bass today that I never noticed before in that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 One more from hemispheres: Their spirits were dividedInto blinded hemispheres Yes - pretty spectacular with headphones on, too, as they split the word hemispheres to the far left and right of the stereo spectrum.Toymaker, if you dont have the bootleg A Single Perfect Sphere 11-20-78, see if you can find it. Listen to Hemispheres with headphones. I heard Geddy do things on his bass today that I never noticed before in that song. That must be the same as "Storm over Tucson"? I'll have to check it out again and focus on the bass. Thanks for the tip! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Each of us, a cell of awareness, imperfect and incomplete... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Each of us, a cell of awareness, imperfect and incomplete... Good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I know someone on the forum mentioned how he doesn't like how Lee sings the line "For their hearts were so unclear," but I really like it for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 One more from hemispheres: Their spirits were dividedInto blinded hemispheres Yes - pretty spectacular with headphones on, too, as they split the word hemispheres to the far left and right of the stereo spectrum.Toymaker, if you dont have the bootleg A Single Perfect Sphere 11-20-78, see if you can find it. Listen to Hemispheres with headphones. I heard Geddy do things on his bass today that I never noticed before in that song. That must be the same as "Storm over Tucson"? I'll have to check it out again and focus on the bass. Thanks for the tip!It sounds better than Storm over Tucson. A lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 I know someone on the forum mentioned how he doesn't like how Lee sings the line "For their hearts were so unclear," but I really like it for some reason.Oh, I love that - i was going to post the whole verse because even if I am distracted while listening to the song, that part always grabs my attention. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I want to look at life...In the available light 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingAllTheTime Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Lots of examples I could mention.... But one that always gets me is his delivery in "Mission", particularly It's cold comfortTo the ones without itTo know how they struggledHow they suffered about itIf their lives were exotic and strangeThey would likely have gladly exchanged themFor something a little more plainMaybe something a little more sane We each pay a fabulous priceFor our visions of paradiseBut a spirit with a vision is a dreamWith a mission The first of those two verses really gets me.... every time. For my money, some of Ged's best vocal work was on HYF, the same for Neil's lyrics. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingAllTheTime Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I want to look at life...In the available light Agreed. Presto took time to grow on me, but there's some good delivery throughout the whole album, except for "Superconductor".... that song makes me twitch and curse. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Lots of examples I could mention.... But one that always gets me is his delivery in "Mission", particularly It's cold comfortTo the ones without itTo know how they struggledHow they suffered about itIf their lives were exotic and strangeThey would likely have gladly exchanged themFor something a little more plainMaybe something a little more sane We each pay a fabulous priceFor our visions of paradiseBut a spirit with a vision is a dreamWith a mission The first of those two verses really gets me.... every time. For my money, some of Ged's best vocal work was on HYF, the same for Neil's lyrics.Yes, that is an excellent example of Geddy really breathing life into the lyrics through both passion and restraint. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Mountain Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Lots of examples I could mention.... But one that always gets me is his delivery in "Mission", particularly It's cold comfortTo the ones without itTo know how they struggledHow they suffered about itIf their lives were exotic and strangeThey would likely have gladly exchanged themFor something a little more plainMaybe something a little more sane We each pay a fabulous priceFor our visions of paradiseBut a spirit with a vision is a dreamWith a mission The first of those two verses really gets me.... every time. For my money, some of Ged's best vocal work was on HYF, the same for Neil's lyrics.Perhaps one of Neil's best. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingAllTheTime Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Lots of examples I could mention.... But one that always gets me is his delivery in "Mission", particularly It's cold comfortTo the ones without itTo know how they struggledHow they suffered about itIf their lives were exotic and strangeThey would likely have gladly exchanged themFor something a little more plainMaybe something a little more sane We each pay a fabulous priceFor our visions of paradiseBut a spirit with a vision is a dreamWith a mission The first of those two verses really gets me.... every time. For my money, some of Ged's best vocal work was on HYF, the same for Neil's lyrics.Yes, that is an excellent example of Geddy really breathing life into the lyrics through both passion and restraint. A while back, I took a roadie to hike Enchanted Rock with some friends. It's about a 90 minute drive out there and I was driving, so it was my playlist and I dropped the Rush Roadie playlist from the iPhone on the way out. Mission is on that list. It was one of those moments when the car was quiet and I had no idea that one friend was intently listening to Rush (the friend is not a Rush fan, by the way). After that verse, they said, "Wow. That was really beautiful. What's this song?" Pardon the pun, but Mission accomplished. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingAllTheTime Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 A side note.... I think Lorraine has really hit onto something with this thread. One of the things that makes Ged's singing so poignant is these are not his lyrics. Sure, the guys are friends and Ged probably knows what Neil is trying to say with the words, but the fact he takes the lyrics, some of which are not always easy in the mainstream sense of rock and roll, and makes them his own has always impressed this Rush fan. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JARG Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 In the available light... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 Some are born to rule the world and live their fantasyBut most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mother of all machines Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 My profile picture moved me a lot.Also,"This is not a love song, this isn't fantasy land" Some days ago I was watching a movie called Wild Tales where you re-consider Lock and key. Lyrics moved me since. "Life is just a candle, and a dream must give its flame""We're both too busy to be taking the blame""The future dissapears into memory, with only a moment between" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mother of all machines Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 And, i really think he sang extremely well the lyrics on YYZ. Just incredible. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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