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Rush - Dog Years

Rush - Dog Years Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Test For Echo
Released: 1996

Dog Years Lyrics

In a dog's life
A year is really more like seven
And all too soon a canine
Will be chasing cars in doggie heaven

It seems to me
As we make our own few circles 'round the sun
We get it backwards
And our seven years go by like one

Dog Years
It's the season of the itch
Dog years
With every scratch it reappears

In the dog days
People look to Sirius
Dogs cry for the moon
But these connections are mysterious

It seems to me
While it's true that every dog will have his day
When all the bones are buried
There is barely time to go outside and play

Dog years
It's the season of the itch
Dog years
With every scratch it reappears
Dog years
For every sad son of a bitch
Dog years
With his tail between his ears

I'd rather be a tortoise from Galapagos
Or a span of geological time
Than be living in these dog years

In a dog's brain
A constant buzz of low-level static
One sniff at the hydrant
And the answer is automatic

It seems to me
As well make our own few circles 'round the block
We've lost our senses
For the higher-level static of talk

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE TOREADOR
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Dog Years

The line, "Every dog has his day" is from a 1863 children's book called Water Babies by the English novelist and clergyman Charles Kingsley.

This song (on their 23rd album) contains the line "One sniff at the hydrant" - Rush's (13th album) Signals features on the cover a dog sniffing at the hydrant.

The line, "In the dog days, People look to Sirius" is a clever pun. One meaning is that in the summer people are often serious but as written it means that people are looking to the dog star "Sirius."

Rush - Carve Away The Stone

Rush - Carve Away The Stone Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Test For Echo
Released: 1996

Carve Away The Stone Lyrics

You can roll that stone
To the top of the hill
Drag your ball and chain
Behind you

You can carry that weight
With an iron will
Or let the pain remain
Behind you

Chip away the stone
(Sisyphus)
Chip away the stone
Make the burden lighter
If you must roll that rock alone

You can drive those wheels
To the end of the road
You will still find the past right
Behind you

The weight of the load
Try to put the sins of the past night
Behind you

Carve Away The Stone
(Sisyhpus)
Carve away the stone
Make a graven image
With some features of your own

You call roll the stone
To the top of the hill
You can carry that weight
With an iron will
You can drive those wheels
To the end of the road
You can try to deny
The weight of the load

Roll away the stone
(Sisyhpus)
Roll away the stone
If you could just move yours
I could get working on my own

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Carve Away The Stone

Repeated in the chorus is "Sisyphus." According to Greek legend, Sisyphus was a king of Corinth who was condemned to forever roll a huge stone uphill that always rolled down again. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Rush - Limbo

Rush - Limbo Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Test For Echo
Released: 1996

Limbo Lyrics

Limbo

In the middle of the song, when you hear, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?", it's a quote from "Monster Mash," a 1962 hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers. The sounds heard at the beginning of the song (water bubbling, chains dropping and dragging) are also taken from "Monster Mash." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Limbo was the first level of Hell in the book Dante's Inferno. (thanks, Chris - Ocean County, NJ)

Neil Peart (from Jam! Showbiz, Oct. 16, 1996): "I'd been stuck on Monster Mash and we were trying to use the Internet to get the words because I couldn't remember them. One of the guys on the production team is an Internet preacher. So I said, 'Here's your chance, go get these lyrics for me.' Well, he went onto the Internet and found the lyrics - but they were wrong! In all the jokes of that, our co-producer, Peter Collins, went out and bought the CD that had a compilation of some funny songs like that. We got to listening to it, thinking about how funny it was and decided to put some samples of it in there. That's Igor going 'Goo mash goo.' We had to get special permission and pay money and everything. You think it's so strange, when you just want to make a joke, and people want you to get permission and pay money." (thanks, Matthew Daubert - Mequon, WI)

Rush - Color Of Right

Rush - Color Of Right Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Test For Echo
Released: 1997

Color Of Right Lyrics

I don't have an explanation
For another lonely night
I just feel this sense of mission
And the sense of what is right

Take it easy on my now
I'd be there if I could
I'm so full of what is right
I can't see what is good

It's a hopeless situation
Lie awake for half the night
You're not sure what's going on here
But you're sure it isn't right

Make it easy on yourself
There's nothing more you can do
You're so full of what is right
You can't see what is true

A quality of justice
A quantity of light
A particle of mercy
Makes the Color Of Right

Gravity and distance
Change the passage of light
Gravity and distance
Change the color of right

Writer/s: LEE GEDDY, LIFESON ALEX, PEART NEIL
Publisher: OLE TOREADOR
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Color Of Right

Regarding the last two lines:
Gravity and distance change the passage of light
Gravity and distance change the color of right
Neil Peart: "The lyrics that surround it are rather unremarkable, and the context of the song seems to cast these lines in the sense of "don't be self-righteous" - something rather uninteresting. But I have used the above metaphor, changed it around, suited it to my needs. I am interested in the double sense of gravity and distance. Physical vs. metaphysical. I take the second meaning of the quotation as another way of saying there is a great difference between theory and practice. When things are serious, when we see them up close, they look different." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)