New Rush Album Touches On War On Terror and 9-11

Vapor Trails-The New Rush Album Due May 14 | 4-30-02 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

The long awaited album from the rock band Rush who has sold in excess of 40 million albums worldwide is about to release one of their strongest efforts to date. I have had the opportunity to own this album for the last 2 weeks and it will be released to the public on May 14th. I am posting some lyrics to a few of the new songs on the album as Neil Peart (who lost his daughter and wife in 1997 in the span of 10 months),touches on the morning of 9-11,our fears, our rage, our hopes, and what was lost and can hopefully be gained.

For those not in the know Neil is a Libertarian and well versed writer who has paid tribute to Ayn Rand on many songs. So here are a few selections to read and take in. Also as a slight review for this album I must say that the album has hit a home run and the tour begins June 28th in Hartford,CT.

Notice the tribute to let's roll in there and the other meanings in between the song.

Freeze (Part IV of "Fear")

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The city crouches steaming, in the early morning half light
The sun is still a rumor, and the light is still a threat
Slipping through the dark streets and the echoes and the shadows
Something stirs behind me and my palms begin to sweat

Sometimes I freeze until the light comes
Sometimes I fly into the night
Sometimes I fight against the darkness
Sometimes I'm wrong
Sometimes I'm right

Cold immortal scream caught like a creature in the headlights
Into a desperate panic, or a tempest of blind fury
Like cornered beast
Or a conquering hero

The madness threatens
Closing
And i'm frozen in the shadows
I'm not prepared to run away
And i'm not prepared to fight
I could stand to reason
Or surrender to a reflex
I will trust my instincts
Or surrender to my fright

Sometimes we freeze
Until the light comes
Sometimes we [roll]
And sometimes we rise
Sometimes we fight
Against the darkness
Sometimes we fly
Into the night

Blood running cold
Mind going numb
Into a dark night
Of a desparate panic
Or a tempest of blind fury

Like a cornered beast
Or a conquering hero

Sometimes i freeze
Sometimes i fly

Sometimes I freeze
Until the light comes
Sometimes I fly
Into the night
Into the night
Into the night

Ceiling Unlimited

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It's not the heat it's the inhumanity
Lurking through the sweat of a summer street
Machine gun images pass like malice through the looking glass

The slack-jaw gaze of true profanity
Feels more like surrender than defeat
If culture is the curse of the thinking class

Ceiling unlimited
World so wide
Turn and turn again, turn again
Feeling unlimited
Still unsatisfied
Changes never end, never end

The vacant smile of true insanity
Dressed up in the mask of tragedy
Programmed for the guts and glands of idle minds and idle hands

I rest my case, at least my vanity
Dessed up in the mask of comedy
If laughter is a storm for a drowning man

Ceiling unlimited
Windows open wide
Look and look again, look again
Feeling unlimited
Eyes on the prize
Changes never end, never end

Winding like an ancient river
The time is now again
Wandering like an ancient river
The time is now again

Winding like an endless river

Peaceable Kingdom

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All this time we're talking and sharing our rational views
A billion other voices are spreading other news
All this time we're living and trying to understand
While a billion other choices are making their demands

Talk of a peaceable kingdom
Talk of a time without fear
The ones we wish would listen
Are never going to hear

Justice against the Hanged Man
Knight of Wands against the hour
Swords against the kingdom
Time against the Tower

All this time we're shuffling and laying out all our cards
While a billion other dealers are slipping past our guards
All this time we're hoping and praying we all might learn
While a billion other teachers are teaching them how to burn

Dream of a peaceable kingdom
Dream of a time without war
The ones we wish could hear us
Have heard it all before

Away toward the clearing sky

The Hermit against the Lovers
Oh, the Devil against the Fool
Swords against the kingdom
The Wheel against the rules

All this time we're builded like bonfires in the dark
A billion other blazes are shooting off their sparks
Every spark a drifting ember of desire
To fall upon the earth and spark another fire

A global angel on the fly
Away toward the clearing sky

Vapor Trail

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Stratospheric traces
Of our transitory flight
Trails of condensation
Held in narrow bands of white

The sun is turning black
The world is turning gray
All the stars fade from the night
The ocean drain away

Horizon to horizon
Memory written on the wind
Fading away like an hourglass
Grain by grain
Swept away like voices in a hurricane
In a vapor trail
In a vapor trail

Atmospheric phases
Make the transitory lapse
Vaporize the memories
That freeze the fading past
Silence all the songbirds
Stilled by the killing frost
For it's burned to ashes
Every name is lost

Horizon to horizon
Memory written on the wind
Washed away like footprints in the rain
Swept away like voices in a hurricane
In a vapor trail
In a vapor trail

Washed away like footprints in the rain
Swept away like voices in a hurricane

In a vapor trail...

[My Favorite Headache]

You can't beging to imagine how many times I wish I had my original FR name on here from years ago...it was that very screen name..Gangster Of Boats.

[ChadGore]

Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control.

[dennisw]

"Remain in Light". If you can.

[ChadGore]

For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall, And echoes with the sounds of salesmen.

[ChadGore]

And what you say about his company
Is what you say about society.
Catch the witness, catch the wit,
Catch the spirit, catch the spit.

[Bob J]

Live! Now on RadioFR!

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Click HERE to listen LIVE! while you FReep!

[gcraig]

Awesome! I'll see them if I'm still in the states.

[PogySailor]

So the Maples formed a Union
and demanded equal rights
"The Oaks are just to greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more Oak oppression
for they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
and Saw....

[My Favorite Headache]

Rush Tour 2002-

June 28: Hartford, Conn. (ctnow.com Meadows Music Centre)
June 29: Scranton, Pa. (Montage Mountain Amphitheatre)
July 1: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
July 3: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
July 4: Raleigh, N.C. (Alltel Pavilion @ Walnut Creek)
July 6: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center)
July 7: Darien Center, N.Y. (Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
July 9: Bristow, Va. (Nissan Pavilion)
July 11: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
July 12: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)
July 14: Camden, N.J. (Tweeter Center)
July 15: Wantagh, N.Y. (Jones Beach)
July 17: Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)
July 19: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheatre)
July 20: Tinley Park, Ill. (Tweeter Center)
Aug. 1: Bonner Springs, Kan. (Sandstone Amphitheatre)
Aug. 2: Maryland Heights, Mo. (UMB Bank Pavilion)
Aug. 4: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)
Aug. 6: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post-Gazette Pavilion)
Aug. 8: Columbus, Ohio (Polaris Amphitheatre)
Aug. 9: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
Aug. 11: Clarkston, Mich. (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
Aug. 14: Nashville, Tenn. (AmSouth Amphitheatre)
Aug. 16: The Woodlands, Texas (C.W. Mitchell Pavilion)
Aug. 17: San Antonio, Texas (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
Aug. 19: Dallas (Reunion Arena)
Aug. 21: Albuquerque, NM (Journal Pavilion)
Aug. 23: Salt Lake City, UT (Delta Center)
Aug. 24: Englewood, CO (Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre)
Sep. 14, Seattle, WA (The Gorge)
Sep. 15, Portland, OR (Rose Garden)
Sep. 17, Concord, CA (Chronicle Pavilion)
Sep. 18, Sacramento, CA (Autowest Amphitheater)
Sep. 20, San Francisco, CA (Shoreline Amphitheatre)
Sep. 21, Las Vegas, NV (MGM Grand)
Sep. 23, Los Angeles, CA (Staples Center Arena)
Sep. 25, San Diego, CA (Coors Amphitheater)
Sep. 27, Phoenix, AZ (Cricket Pavilion)
Sep. 28, Irvine, CA (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Oct. 10, Miami, FL (National Car Rental Center)
Oct. 11, Tampa, FL (Ice Palace)
Oct. 13, Atlanta, GA (Phillips Arena)
Oct. 15, Cleveland, OH (Gund Arena)
Oct. 16, Rochester, NY (Blue Cross Arena)
Oct. 18, Toronto, ON (Molson Amphitheater)
Oct. 19, Quebec City, QC (Colisee Pepsi Arena)
Oct. 22, Toronto, ON (Air Canada Centre)
Oct. 24, New York, NY (Madison Square Garden)
Oct. 25, Hershey, PA (Giant Arena)
Oct. 27, Philadelphia, PA (First Union Center)
Oct. 28, Boston, MA (Fleet Center)
Oct. 30, Chicago, IL (The United Center)
Nov. 1, Ames, IA (Hilton Coliseum)
Nov. 2, Minneapolis, MN (Target Center)

[My Favorite Headache]

Tour dates added to this thread

[PogySailor]

Oct. 11, Tampa, FL (Ice Palace)

Thanks! I'll mark my calendar!

[Larry Lucido]

From the site:

"fact 05: Alex once ate more than nineteen thousand dollars worth of cheese in a single afternoon."

These guys are honorary Freepers!

[My Favorite Headache]

I can't tell you how many times I thought of FR when I read that...lmao

[My Favorite Headache]

See you there...I will be there.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Nothing like the thought provoking lyrics of Rush

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends with uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

And the rest of the song is good too.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Aug. 16: The Woodlands, Texas (C.W. Mitchell Pavilion)

Hmmmm.... An outside concert in the middle of the August heat and mosquitos....if it was anyone but Rush, I'd take a pass;-)

[-YYZ-]

I'll have to look into tickets for the Molson Amp, or for the tour later this year.

No, I haven't been to dmbgame.com, I'll have to check it out. Didn't get to see DMB here in Toronto. Those tickets sold out virtually overnight.

[-YYZ-]

Free will:
You can choose a ready guide
in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will.

For some reason that one was at the top of my head.