Agree with you Trisatr. Im an old timer Rush fan. Saw them first back in the late 70s. Lost count but ive seen them 30 times on many many a tour. Indeed Neil is getting more anti-religious......and you cant blame him for talking about this struggle after he lost his wife and daughter in the span of a year. What you see in Neils lyrics is a guy trying to make sense of the unexplainable and he is latching onto whatever truth he can find. Tragedy leads some towards God and some away. Im just getting tired of him dwelling on it in his lyrics.
This new album is the best from Rush in a long time, but lyrically Peart was at his lyrical best when he focused on philosophy. This spiritual focus of his lyrics are just too damn preachy and turn me off. The poetry is pretty good but you can hear it that he is trying to convince the listener to his POV. No longer does Peart just opine and wax poetic on a subject from a philosophical POV, as a brief window into his mind, now he tries to PUSH his POV out and just comes across as forced and contrite. I hate it when people put their spirituality out there and claim it to be superior. Nobody knows jack squat about the metaphysical, so to all artists, dont feed me the line that you have all the answers cause you dont.
Didnt mean that to be such a rant, I appreciate anything Neil has to say over the drivel that is the usual fare these days.
And for the poster who said Peart is not an athiest.....yes he is, and so are Ged and Al.
Agree with you Trisatr. Im an old timer Rush fan. Saw them first back in the late 70s. Lost count but ive seen them 30 times on many many a tour. Indeed Neil is getting more anti-religious......and you cant blame him for talking about this struggle after he lost his wife and daughter in the span of a year. What you see in Neils lyrics is a guy trying to make sense of the unexplainable and he is latching onto whatever truth he can find. Tragedy leads some towards God and some away. Im just getting tired of him dwelling on it in his lyrics.
This new album is the best from Rush in a long time, but lyrically Peart was at his lyrical best when he focused on philosophy. This spiritual focus of his lyrics are just too damn preachy and turn me off. The poetry is pretty good but you can hear it that he is trying to convince the listener to his POV. No longer does Peart just opine and wax poetic on a subject from a philosophical POV, as a brief window into his mind, now he tries to PUSH his POV out and just comes across as forced and contrite. I hate it when people put their spirituality out there and claim it to be superior. Nobody knows jack squat about the metaphysical, so to all artists, dont feed me the line that you have all the answers cause you dont.
Didnt mean that to be such a rant, I appreciate anything Neil has to say over the drivel that is the usual fare these days.
And for the poster who said Peart is not an athiest.....yes he is, and so are Ged and Al.