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Rush - Mission (Retrospective II 1981-87)

Hold your fire,
Keep it burning bright
Hold the flame 'til the dream ignites
A spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission

I hear their passionate music
Read the words that touch my heart
I gaze at their feverish pictures
The secrets that set them apart

When I feel the powerful visions
Their fire has made alive
I wish I had that instinct
I wish I had that drive

Spirits fly on dangerous missions
Imaginations on fire
Focused high on soaring ambitions
Consumed in a single desire

In the grip of a nameless possession
A slave to the drive of obsession
A spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission.

I watch their images flicker
Bringing light to a lifeless screen
I walk through their beautiful buildings
And I wish I had their dreams
But dreams don't need to have motion
To keep their spark alive
Obsession has to have action
Pride turns on the drive

It's cold comfort
To the ones without it
To know how they struggled
How they suffered about it
If their lives were exotic and strange
They would likely have gladly exchanged them
For something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane

We each pay a fabulous price
For our visions of paradise
But a spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission.
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Komentarze:

1
Actually Neil wasn't using in ear monitors until several tours after Geddy and Alex started using them. In fact as late as the Hold Your Fire tour Neil wasn't using them. He was still using the big headphones for Red Sector A. He didn't think he'd like them so it took the other guys a few tours to talk him into trying them. I also read an article that they were one of the few bands who did not have to have tempos or clicks fed into the monitors to know when to trigger the effects.
Autor: IMNOTGEDDY
2
No, no, no. Neil didn't use IEMs until Test for Echo. The only time NP has ever had tempos "piped" in is when he used a click track for Time Stand Sill and Red Sector A (see songs where he wears headphones)
Autor: VonTrousers
3
there's so much emotion in this song. just awesome. you hit it on the head, his voice is totally underrated
Autor: HighFidelityRob
4
This is what music lacks today. Period. End of story.
Autor: Mowac
5
This song is the story of my life and it males me weep.
Autor: MargoMitchell
6
No - if you look, they all use Sennheisser in-ear monitors and Neil's drum tech pipes in the tempos through that...
Autor: Socracea