From: dianetti@acsu.buffalo.edu (Donald J. Dianetti)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Great Moments / Emotive
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:00:57 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <BvHDFD.32n@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast) writes:
>
>	Just thought I'd add my $2/100.  I think I have two favorite moments
>	in Rush songs.  The best (all IMHO, of course) is the line:
>		"For you is it movement
>			or is it action?
>		Is it contact
>			or just reaction?
>		revolution
>			or just resistance?
>		Is it living
>			or just existance?"
>	From "The Enemy Within"
>
>Next comes:
>
>		"And If the music stops
>			There's only the sound of the Rain
>		All the hope and the glory
>			All the sacrifice in vain
>		If love remains
>			Though everything is lost
>		We will pay the price
>			But we will not count the cost"
>	From "Bravado"
>
>	I guess many people have certain parts of songs that just seem to
>	blow them away.  Those are mine!
>
>-- 
>*******************************************************************************
>* "Those who know what's Best for Us Must Rise and Save Us From Ourselves"    *
>*  c-amin1@uiuc.edu  Go Illini, Tarheels, Cowboys, Orioles, Capitals!!!!!!!!!!*
>**********Chintan Amin**************University of Illiois, Urbana/Champaign****

2 more cents (for anyone who's keeping track)

Two of my all-time favorite lines, both from "Available Light":

               "A play of light -- a photograph
                   The way I used to be
                Some half-forgotten stranger
                   Doesn't mean that much to me 
                Trick of light -- moving picture
                   Moments caught in flight
                Makes the shadows darker
                   Or the colors shine too bright"

Ouch!  What a cold way to look at yourself - as a "half-forgotten stranger".
Disregarding your own past to concentrate on your present and future is not
necessarily such a bad thing.  However, it seems kind of sad to have 
to throw away your past; implying that the past was unhappy.  Or, more 
accurately, that you were unhappy with _yourself_ in the past.  
  The shifting realities are interesting.  Viewing the photo NOW - it 
doesn't look right - it's distorted, look-the colors are all wrong, the
lighting is off, in other words :
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT AN ACCURATE REFLECTION OF ME.  It's a "trick"-- of 
light.  I'm not like this anymore.  I've changed and I don't want 
to be reminded of "the way I used to be".  Get that picture out of my face. :) 

               "Run to light from shadow
                   The sun gives me no rest
                Promise offered in the East
                   Broken in the West"

Ouch again!  The sun - the promise of a new day - at sunrise anything 
is possible.  At sunset - it's over, and nothing has changed.  The promise
is broken.  You remain stagnated in whatever situation it was that you 
were hoping to change.  The light represented that change, and now it's
gone.

Interesting symbolism- two sources of light; one natural, one artificial.
The natural light from the sun holds the promise of _change_ , _improvement_
(even if it doesn't deliver, it does hold the promise).
The artificial light from the camera allows NO change or improvement upon 
anything.  The moment is captured forever and cannot be altered. 

I'm afraid I have to give "Available Light" a 20--I absolutely love this
song.  
-- 
Don Dianetti  --  SUNY at Buffalo  --  dianetti@acsu.buffalo.edu
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