| Rush – Tom Sawyer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i totally agree. people will hear one song by rush, namely, tom sawyer, and then be like, 'holy crap, rush is so amazing/awful' but rush has so much good stuff! i mean, freaken neil peart! he's a god of the drums. before i even liked rush a whole lot, i at least appreciated them, and especially neil peart. coz he is the man. | |
| The Magnetic Fields – Swinging London Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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haha 'grok' is a word that Robert A. Heinlein uses as a Martian word in his sci-fi novel 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. to grok means to understand fully. to grasp fully to be. he often uses the phrase, "thou art god' which is very eastern phylosophy type. that 'you' did not grok the magnetic field's race car means you can't comprehend it. that is all i know. but i realllly need to know more about this song!!! tis vair vair important in my life. i do not grok this song. seems random, but who knows? |
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| Rush – Tom Sawyer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Neil Peart collaborated this song with Pye Dubois (a lyricist). He said, "A portrait of a modern day rebel, a free-spirited individualist striding through the world wide-eyed and purposeful. I added the themes of reconciling the boy and man in myself, and the difference between what people are and what others perceive them to be - namely me I guess." I'm doing a presentation on the parallels between American novels and music, using this song (of course) as an example. When I looked deeper at it, I became confused. To me, it sounds like Peart and Pubois are talking more about Huckleberry Finn and less about Tom Sawyer, though both are rebels in their own way. However, Tom, rebels for his own selfish purposes (someone else said that on here too and I completely agree). Huck, on the other hand, rebels even though he believes helping a Negro would 'send him to hell'. Still confused about it, but maybe I'm thinking too hard which is possible... ahhh |
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