Digital Man Lyrics

Lyric discussion by shredderboi14 

Cover art for Digital Man lyrics by Rush

if you look into this song enough you can link analog kid and digital man together

I like this idea a lot, actually. The digital man is the analog kid - all grown up and looking at life through a different lens.

The analog kid sees the world in 'analog' terms - every possibility is before him, and he can't wait to go out and explore it all (similar idea to 'Circumstances').

The digital man notices 'scraps' of things, here and there. Everything is 'subdivided and synthetic'. In the same way a digital signal represents an analog (real-world) signal by subdividing it and losing information.

So, in some sense, it's making an analogy between digital/analog signals...

@shredderboi14 you can also view these lyrics as the rise of the anti Christ the album signals in my opinion was about purity to unpurity the anolog kids represents the purity digital man represents in purity with phrases such as Babylon and zion if you really go back and listen to many of rushes albums youll start noticeing a lot of siritaul over tones not only are the outstanding muscians there lyrics talk about life