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Rush - Losing It
Rush - Losing It


Rush - Losing It Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Signals
Released: 1982

Losing It Lyrics


The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration

Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire
With just the briefest pause
The flooding through her memory
The echoes of old applause

She limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door
The writer stares with glassy eyes

Defies the empty page
His beard is white, his face is lined
And streaked with tears of rage

Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision
And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more

Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be

Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee, bell tolls for
For you, the blind who once could see
Bell tolls for thee, bell tolls for thee

Writer/s: ALEX LIFESON, NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Losing It
  • The lyrics refer to author Ernest Hemingway and 2 of his novels: The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
  • Neil Peart (Rush Backstage Club Newsletter, March 1990): "The dancer is no one in particular, though partly inspired by the movie The Turning Point (starring Shirley Maclaine)."

  • Rush - New World Ma
    Rush - New World Man


    Rush - New World Man Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Signals
    Released: 1982

    New World Man Lyrics


    He's a rebel and a runner
    He's a signal turning green
    He's a restless young romantic
    Wants to run the big machine

    He's got a problem with his poisons
    But you know he'll find a cure
    He's cleaning up the systems
    To keep his nature pure

    Learning to match the beat of the old-world man
    Learning to catch the heat of the third-world man

    He's got to make his own mistakes
    And learn to mend the mess he makes
    He's old enough to know what's right
    And young enough not to choose it
    He's noble enough to win the world
    But weak enough to lose it

    He's a new-world man

    He's a radio receiver
    Tuned to factories and farms
    He's a writer and ranger and a young boy bearing arms
    He's got a problem with his powers
    His weapons on patrol
    He's got to walk a fine line
    And keep his self-control

    Trying to save the day for the old-world man
    Trying to pave the way for the third-world man

    He's not concerned with yesterday
    He knows constant change is here today
    He's noble enough to know what's right
    But weak enough not to choose it
    He's wise enough to win the world
    But fool enough to lose it

    He's a new-world man

    Learning to match the beat of the old-world man
    He's learning to catch the heat of the third-world man

    He's a New World Man
    He's a new world man

    Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
    Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    New World Man
  • Geddy Lee (from Success Under Pressure): "It wouldn't have been on the record if we didn't have four minutes space available. We tend to have pretty strict ideas on how long an album should be and basically it's just a matter of value. Our shortest albums are about 18 minutes a side and that's a pretty good value. I couldn't see us going below that; it doesn't make sense to me. But, at the same time, we're now recording digitally and so we do have certain considerations as to how the whole thing's going to sound when you cut it. There, you're dealing with quality, which is again down to value for money. I think what it really boiled down to was that we'd worked so hard getting all these slick sounds that we were all in the mood to put something down that was real spontaneous. In the end, the whole song took one day to write and record. It's good to put something together like that."
  • Neil Peart (from Stories From Signals, Signals Tourbook): "Writing it in one day and recording it the next! We wanted to capture a spontaneous, relaxed feel for this one, not even spending much time getting the sounds together. Thus, it could stand in contrast to the rest of the album, being much more raw and "live" in its affect. Two days is very close to a record for us to write and record a song." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for all above)
  • This is Rush's highest-charting single, and their only song to chart in the US Top 40. (thanks, Matthew Daubert - Mequon, WI).

  • Rush - Chemistr
    Rush - Chemistry


    Rush - Chemistry Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Signals
    Released: 1982

    Chemistry Lyrics


    Signals transmitted
    Message received
    Reaction making impact
    Invisibly

    Elemental telepathy
    Exchange of energy
    Reaction making contact
    Mysteriously

    Eye-to-I
    Reaction burning hotter
    Two-to-one
    Reflection on the water
    H-to-O
    No flow without the other
    Oh, but how
    Do they make contact
    With one another?

    Electricity, biology?
    Seems to me it's Chemistry

    Emotion transmitted
    Emotion received
    Music in the abstract
    Positively

    Elemental empathy
    A change of synergy
    Music making contact
    Naturally

    One, two, three
    Add without subtraction
    Sound on sound
    Multiplied reaction
    H-to-O
    No flow without the other
    Oh, but how
    Do we make contact
    With one another?

    Electricity, biology?
    Seems to me it's chemistry

    Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
    Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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    Chemistry
  • This is basically about how chemistry is defined, precise in it's own nature. When you add one thing to another it's ALWAYS the same. In contrast, when human individuals connect it's always a different outcome.
  • In a 1986 issue of Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Alex Lifeson said: "Very often the guys will have worked out something musically and made a tape of it for which they have nothing particular in mind. 'Grand Designs,' on the last album, was done that way. They had the musical ideas laid out and just made a little tape for me with guitar, keyboards and drum machine, and I had that. So, again, if I'm stumped on something that I've been working on, I pull out that tape and try to close my mind off for a minute and listen to the tape. 'Chemistry' was a true collaboration between the three of us. The other guys had a couple of key phrases they wanted to express, so they gave me the music. That was easy because all the groundwork was done. Playing with words comes so much easier than having to dream up the whole thing." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)
  • While most Rush songs are written solely by drummer Neil Peart, the lyrics and music on this song are credited to Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. This is the last song that either Geddy Lee or Alex Lifeson are given credit for lyrics. (thanks, Matthew Daubert - Mequon, WI)

  • Rush - Subdivision
    Rush - Subdivisions


    Rush - Subdivisions Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Signals
    Released: 1982

    Subdivisions Lyrics


    Sprawling on the fringes of the city
    In geometric order
    An insulated border
    In-between the bright lights
    And the far, unlit unknown

    Growing up, it all seems so one-sided
    Opinions all provided
    The future pre-decided
    Detached and subdivided
    In the mass-production zone

    Nowhere is the dreamer
    Or the misfit so alone

    Subdivisions
    In the high school halls
    In the shopping malls
    Conform or be cast out
    Subdivisions
    In the basement bars
    In the backs of cars
    Be cool or be cast out

    Any escape might help to smooth
    The unattractive truth
    But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
    The restless dreams of youth

    Drawn like moths, we drift into the city
    The timeless old attraction
    Cruising for the action
    Lit up like a firefly
    Just to feel the living night

    Some will sell their dreams for small desires
    Or lose the race to rats
    Get caught in ticking traps
    And start to dream of somewhere
    To relax their restless flight

    Somewhere out of a memory
    Of lighted streets on quiet nights

    Subdivisions
    In the high school halls
    In the shopping malls
    Conform or be cast out
    Subdivisions
    In the basement bars
    In the backs of cars
    Be cool or be cast out

    Any escape might help to smooth
    The unattractive truth
    But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
    The restless dreams of youth

    Writer/s: GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON, NEIL PEART
    Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Subdivisions
  • This song is about how narrow-minded and judgmental people can get when they are confined to certain groups - a common occurrence in the suburbs. This is spelled out in the chorus:

    Subdivisions
    In the high school halls
    In the shopping malls
    Conform or be cast out


    It tells of how when you don't meet a certain standard you are basically shunned. (thanks, Chris - Bradenton, FL)
  • Rush's drummer/lyricist Neil Peart said this song is "an exploration of the background from which all of us (and probably most of our audience) have sprung.'"

    Peart grew up reading adventure stories and science fiction, which for him were an escape from the confines of suburbia. As he got older, he took full advantage of his freedom, embracing travel and exploring other cultures.
  • Mark Dailey, evening newscaster and "The Voice" of Toronto television station City-TV and also MuchMusic, is the voice that repeats the chorus line "Subdivisions."
  • This song marked a turning point for Neil Peart, whose early Rush lyrics were based in fantasy. "I didn't believe yet that I could put something real into a song," he told Rolling Stone. "'Subdivisions' happened to be an anthem for a lot of people who grew up under those circumstances, and from then on, I realized what I most wanted to put in a song was human experience."

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