#rush lyrics

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart

There’s no bread let them eat cake There’s no end to what they’ll take Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth

But they’re marching to Bastille Day La guillotine will claim her bloody prize Free the dungeons of the innocent The king will kneel, and let his kingdom rise

Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace Naked fear on every face See them bow their heads to die As we would bow as they rode by

And we’re marching to Bastille Day La guillotine will claim her bloody prize Sing, o choirs of cacophony The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise.

Lessons taught, but never learned All around us anger burns Guide the future by the past Long ago the mould was cast

For they marched up to Bastille Day La guillotine – claimed her bloody prize Hear the echoes of the centuries Power isn’t all that money buys

Marking Period 2 class project - decided to do a song-inspired work, chose “Xanadu” by Rush and drew a visual for the story (took some reference from the poem, too)

I didn't really think about it until recently, but I feel like it might be Neil himself. Which would actually be kind of sweet since Geddy's singing about one of his best friends 😊💛❤️

I think Neil speaks of himself and of all the North American men of his generation living in the 80s, that's why he compares this New World Man to the Old World Man and the Third World Man.

"The song was the last and most quickly composed song on the album, stemming from a suggestion by then-Rush producer Terry Brown to even out the lengths of the two sides of the cassette version." (Wikipedia)

I think Neil was having those ideas in mind already, so when he was asked to quickly write some lyrics, he did it about how he was feeling about those matters.

Keep going until dawn

How many times must another line be drawn?

We could be down and gone