Tonight, Rush the band is playing in Austin, Texas. I’ve seen them a number of times already, and I cannot wait to see them again; Rush is indeed one of the best bands ever… Because it is the 30th anniversary of the Moving Pictures album, they are playing the whole album — awesome; did I mention that I cannot wait?

Unstable condition
A symptom of life
In mental and environmental change

Atmospheric disturbance
The feverish flux
Of human interface and interchange

The impulse is pure
Sometimes our circuits get shorted
By external interference

Signals get crossed
And the balance distorted
By internal incoherence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a mood lifter
Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to deviate from the norm

An ounce of perception
A pound of obscure
Process information at half speed
Pause, rewind, replay
Worn memory chip
Random sample, hold the one you need

Leave out the fiction
The fact is this friction
Will only be worn by persistence

Leave out conditions
Courageous convictions
Will drag the dream into existence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a soft filter
Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to elevate from the norm

Everybody got mixed feelings [x2]
Everybody got to elevate from the norm [x7]
Everybody got to elevate
Everybody got to elevate from the norm [repeat while fading]

** Lyrics from Vital Signs.

Want more? Listen/see Rush – Witch Hunt (Grace Under Pressure Tour) (song from the Moving Pictures album)

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