An Utterly Faithless Rush

A fantastic performance by Rush last night, July 23, 2007 at the Hollywood Bowl! Best Rush show ever for me. The Black Sun contingent at the show was eight strong, including Aaron Kinney from Kill the Afterlife, who posted these killer You Tube videos. I’m going to follow up with a complete review of the concert, album, and DVD later. Let’s just say for now it was a sublime and totally faithless show (though they didn’t play the song Faithless. Damn.). Here are the lyrics to one of the standout songs from Snakes and Arrows, which was accompanied by an amazing and completely topical video:

The Way the Wind Blows

by Neil Peart

Now it’s come to this
It’s like we’re back in the Dark Ages
From the Middle East to the Middle West
It’s a world of superstition

Now it’s come to this
Wide-eyed armies of the faithful
From the Middle East to the Middle West
Pray, and pass the ammunition

So many people think that way
You gotta watch what you say
To them and them, and others too
Who don’t seem to see to things the way you do

We can only grow the way the wind blows
on a bare and weathered shore
We can only bow to the here and now
In our elemental war

We can only go the way the wind blows
We can only bow to the here and now
Or be broken down blow by blow

Now it’s come to this
Hollow speeches of mass deception
From the Middle East to the Middle West
Like crusaders in a holy alliance

Now it’s come to this
Like we’re back in the dark ages
From the Middle East to the Middle West
It’s a plague that resists our science

It seems to leave them partly blind
And they leave no child behind
While evil spirits haunt their sleep
While shepherds bless and count their sheep

Like the solitary pine
On a bare wind blasted shore
We can only grow the way the wind blows

Catch this tour if you can! Once in a lifetime.