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  • FUCK JUSTIN. HE IS A SNOT NOSED PUNK

  • Man, I was looking for this song for a while. I knew it was by Rush, but it wasn't showing up just by going randomly from song to song on YouTube. Thankfully I heard it on the radio today on my way home from school, so I went to the radio's web site and found out the song's name.

    So great. I freaking love Rush. lol

  • is the intro in 7/4?

  • @andrevth their time signatures constantly change within their songs, so maybe but it's likely that it changes to something else right after

  • nobody has ever written lyrics that fit me better then neal

  • one best song i heard. i hear lots of songs

    jk.. but seriously, this song is badass

  • @hoss861...............But they were to agree with you and not conform, wouldn't that then still make them a conformist?

  • wow!

    

  • if you say that you don´t like the drums in this song then you should know that there´s something fucking wrong with you

    oh and the same can be said for all songs by rush

  • @BADRANG4EVER Where did someone say that?

  • A very powerful song emotionally for alot of us misfits...really a gloomy song for me all these years but still attracted to it and the haunting synths...like a firefly...

  • God! I Love this song/lyrics/BAND!!!!

  • Their best song ever. In fact one of the best songs by anyone ever.

  • This song is much more relevant today than what it was when it was originally released in 1982. I wish all the misfits listen to this song, find solace in it and ultimately feel good about it. 

  • @ajittffcure And this song sat on the shelf 2 years before it was released, They very are disciplined and ahead of their time.

  • (SUBDIVISIONS) In the highschool halls! 

  • Great song!

  • Just close your eyes and think of Toronto...

  • @ChachaChapati Ahhhhhhhhh Maple Leaf Gardens, Ontario Place Staying at the Royal York Hotel, Driving The QE, The CN Tower, The beautiful Stadium where The Argonauts play, The Museums, Center Island, North York where I grew up Don Mills and Sheppard, Walking down Yong street Friday and Saturday nights going into bars to see some of the best talent around.

    What a great town to come from, I have lived in Florida for 33 years now and I miss my old hometown.

  • @GhostsInMyAttic First song I put on after I exit Pearson.

  • @ChachaChapati Pearson International Airport?

  • @GhostsInMyAttic Of course.

  • @GhostsInMyAttic Or in the case of Rush, "YYZ."

  • @ChachaChapati Oh the zipper manufacturer?...lol

    YYZ was a brain rush, No pun intended :)

  • @GhostsInMyAttic still meant the airport...and Rush instrumental.

  • @ChachaChapati Yea man I remember those days in Canada they were the best :)

  • @ChachaChapati Do you work at Pearson or travel in and out of there a lot?

  • @GhostsInMyAttic Just traveling there; I live in Cali. When I went to Toronto for the first time, I made sure to put on this and the rest of "Signals" after leaving the airport...had to hear YYZ, too.

  • @ChachaChapati Oh never knew that so, You are in Cali and when do you travel to Toronto? on business or to party?

    TO is a great place to party!

  • @GhostsInMyAttic Would've said "California" but ran out of space. Yeah, went there for leisure a few times in college; great city and people! 

  • @ChachaChapati I was borrn there to American parents my Dad played pro football for Toronto and my sister that just passed away was on the Canadian Olympic Diving Team.

    Moved to FL in `79.

    I`ve had my Canadian friends down the last couple weeks and we been touring strip clubs...lol

  • @GhostsInMyAttic Congrats; you have citizenship in both countries. Lot of people from BC and Alberta here. Sorry about sister. Enjoy them clubs...

  • @ChachaChapati Yes something that from what I understand is no longer available but, I got mine in `78 I think? I do miss my sister she was very cool thanks for the kinda words.

    I spend way too much money in those places I just sit back have a few beers and talk to a few girls, Then I buy them drinks then we have dinner with the girls and all of a sudden we spent a Grand...Damn Bitches...lol

  • The New World Order... ; {

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  • the spirit of the radio brought me here... well, i heard it on the radio... which made me look it up

  • @Intelijince haha me too!!!!!!! i heard it and i just couldnt think of it! until i told my dad then he knew right then wjhat it was

  • BRILLIANT.

  • I don't listen to Rush much, I love punk music, but my dad loves them and I appreciate the band's talent. A lot of punk and Rush have the same message... People live as though they're cut out of molds, and they live and think along with the crowd. I live and think for what I think is right, what I myself think is good or not. Society and the cookie-cutter people around me won't bring me down. I'm going to pursue my dreams, live them, and make my life significant! Don't lose the spirit of rock!

  • Rush nailed this song to a T. It's very sad to see how People are so cloned about how to live.

  • @hjmcgill thanks man. I agree. America is going to Hell, but we'll pull through... but, man I really hate the music that's playing on the radio today. I do feel kinda stupid that I quoted the lyrics wrong though. Thanks again to JoyfulGypsy for the correction

  • @SpeedyXGunz Don't feel stupid. I gave you the lyrics that I went with proudly for years. That's just it. I have a ton of those magazines that would print the lyrics of hit songs every month, and this song never made it. So I never knew the words. In fact, I didn't know who sang the song, so I couldn't look for the album. Didn't know anyone who knew. I was 11-12 years old. Black kid. I was stuck. I'm pulling out my 2-disk set for the commute tomorrow. OMG - Is that sad, or what?

  • It`s amazing to go back and see these guys, I grew up in Toronto, Canada my two older sisters went to high school with Neil and Geddy and Alex was my girlfriends neighbor.

    We went to see them so many times I lost count same with Triumph free shows down on the lake front and parties. =]

  • OK...YouTube gave me a heart attack! It says that Rush is playing in Toronto my hometown, and I almost died of happiness!! Turns out it's some band called "Big Time Rush" which look like NSYNC wannabees....*sigh*

  • @loverofhighlanders20 Try going to Maple Leaf Gardens every year the night before new years and new years eve they have been doing 2 shows there for at least 20 years.

  • One of the BEST Rush songs!!!!

  • @onekissfan THE BEST RUSH SONG!!!

  • Rush kicks ass!

  • @joyfulgypsy thanks for the correction

  • The lyrics should read: "Any escape might help TO SMOOTH the unattractive truth..." Not "disprove"

    This is one of my favorite songs. Thank you for posting it.

  • ...Oh, and one last thing. Don't be surpised 'Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame,' that when you FINALLY induct them (hopefully in my lifetime), that Neil doesn't show. He cares nothing for the limelight, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was just Alex and Geddy accepting the award.

  • Rush, hands down, have some, if not, THEE best lyrics in the history of rock. Only this group can incorporate the lyrics, "Any escape might help disprove the unattractive truth, but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth," into a cohesive and melodic song, that flows off the tongue, without one realizing the complexity of 'said' lyrics. It just fits, and that's Rush.

  • @SpeedyXGunz Man, you are so right. And the lyrics just grow on you with age. It was years before I really knew what Geddy was saying at, "any escape...," so I put in the words that fit for me; because when this song first came out, to me it WAS about the suburbs, hormones, charms and school - the restless dreams of youth! But he says it even better. And now, now the suburbs are in shambles, and America in general is on the way to hell in a handbasket. Kids of today just would not get this song.

  • @hjmcgill Not entirely true. There's a select few like myself that stop and make time for some pensive thinking

  • @iknowmyus3rnamesucks I guess it's good to know there is someone out there of a younger age who can feel the angst that us 40-somethings knew only too well.

  • Best Drummer Ever

  • One word..."Out-fucking-standing".­

  • No truer lyrics in all of music

  • 5 people dont know the word "satire"

  • lol 5 people couldn't figure out what the song meant because they spent their English class trying to be cool.

  • @grevejp44 7 are beiber fans. 614 know what a real canadian rockstar is.

  • @Shanethefilmmaker Beiber is just a commodity; all flash and no substance. Perfectly symbolic of the vapid emptiness and utter shallowness of the modern (i.e., post-1970's) age.

  • @GasconyKid one thing positive I can say about him is he does give everybody what they want. His fans want him, while we want something bad to happen to him. Otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to that CSI episode.

  • I saw Rush in 85 , Power Windows tour. However,we couldn't see Neil Pert because he was completely conceiled behind his 144 peice drum kit. Freakin Awesome!

  • I saw Rush way back during their A Farewell to Kings Tour, @ the Allentown Fairgrounds in Pa. We were the first audience to hear Tom Sawyer and Limelight live.......memories to last a lifetime...i am over 50 now...God bless rock and roll

  • @normamitzy Damn, I only saw them on R30, still, a great time.

  • This is the second video I've seen tonight that has the wrong lyrics to a Rush song. C'mon, is it really that hard to find out the correct lyrics to a Rush song?

    Dislike!

  • Watch Alex Leifson in an episode of Trailer Park Boys called "Closer To The Heart". FUNNY!!

  • I feel like if I conform, I wouldn't be myself anymore, and I just can't be somebody else

  • 'disprove'? no, it's 'to smooth... the unattractive truth' Otherwise, this is not a bad job...

  • prachtige compositie tijdloos

  • think i first listened to this album after i'd just done salvia, brings back some amazing memories

  • Your lyrics aren't 100% correct.

  • This song got me through high school

  • I've been listening passively to Rush for years, but I'm just now starting to realize that the lyrics are first-rate.

  • My father brought me here! (:

  • @TheRunikko That's because clearly your dad kicks massive amounts of ass.

  • @TheRunikko Ditto!

  • Never get tired of this wonderful song after almost 30 years. Just kicks butt and is timeless. My favorite RUsh song of all time although there are so many. Signals was just great.

  • This is a demonstration of why Peart is at the top of the list for worlds best drummers.

  • excelente!

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  • The synth is the best part

  • I live within this song.

  • I once had a great, vivid dream to this song when I was about 12. I was being loaded on this red rocket ship to be blasted off into space. Something about the music just SENDS, you know? I can't describe it, but every time I hear this song, I'm transported to that heady dream and the excitement I felt for that brief moment (at the time I wanted to be an astronaut). Just thought I'd share my own memory from this amazing song! :)

  • i love RUSH me and my dad listen to them all the time. my dad always says its odd seeing a 12 year old girl listening to a bands that came out when he was 12 or 13. I just dont like all the nowadays music it sounds like crap. this is real music

  • a 3 man band makes this much music....ROCK ON DUDESS

  • It's all STILL TRUE! CONFORM OR BE CAST OUT, FUCK YOU, NO CONFORMITY HAPPENING HERE, EVER. They can't break you unless you let them.

  • Timelessness.

  • This is my favorite Rush song of all time!

  • This is like the DREAM team. Rush kicks ass with a steel toe boot!

  • My favorite song from one of my favorite bands...and I remember first hearing it when i was 14...what great memories!!

  • This video has been chosen for October 19, 2011 post on Facebook Page: Random Daily Classic Rock Song

  • saw them at the houston astrodome 1982 - AWESOME !

  • @klittle2238 >>>> cool....I saw them at 1984 Texas Jam in the astrodome ......

  • Respect and support angles today.

  • "Any escape might help disprove the unattractive truth, but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth..." My goodness! Henry James, or Geddy Lee?

  • @Sleighteem Neil Peart wrote those Lyrics

  • thanks for bringing me wise to the lyrics of this song.

    I can't count how many times I heard this song back in my troubled younger days

    I must have been so fucked up that I could not hear nor understand these desent words..

  • I finally found a song that totally describes me!

  • The three "Dislikes" on this page must be Alex, Neil and Geddy playing a joke. Only possible explanation.

  • @chrononessgeno YES! :D

  • @chrononessgeno there are 4 dislikes now. Their producer must have decided to join in on the joke as well

  • @chrononessgeno No Alex made three accounts because his guitar playing is cut down

  • @chrononessgeno LOL...some of the best lyrics in music. I grew up listening to this stuff, never appreciating the depth and quality of the words.

  • @chrononessgeno  well worded!!! I would believe it !! hehehehe

  • This song means so much to me....

  • Congratulations Joan Jett on being nominated ahead of RUSH for the Hall of Fame. I love rock and roll/So put another dime in the jukebox baby. RUSH just couldn't come up with the lyrics, that's their problem.

  • @kyoozoocanada Right? I mean, she is clearly the best lyricist of the entire century.... Neil should take notes!

    : \

  • @kyoozoocanada do u have down syndrome?

  • @Thenitrohawk64 You are an idiot.

  • @kyoozoocanada are you sure you know nothing about me?

  • @Thenitrohawk64 geez guys chill. kyoozocanada was makin a joke. he was saying in a joke way that rush has awesome lyrics while joan jet suckks. kyoozo not nice to call another rush fan an idiot. we gotta stickk together boys and girls.

  • @leonardhaid kk must of read it wrong english is my worst subject in school

  • @Thenitrohawk64 he thought you called him a retard

  • @leonardhaid yh iknow thought he was dissin rush

  • @Thenitrohawk64 no just the opposite!!! anyways good for you for standin up for RUSH. kyozos joke went over my head too but then  i got it.

  • They do a fine job of giving the Toronto suburbs a distinct sound.

  • so corny but i love it !

  • My dad loves Rush and so do i

  • I swear, WLUP in Chicago plays this song at least once a day. I love it...one of Rush's BEST!

  • Heard this song on the radio and just had to listen to it again! :D

  • Such a true song.

  • Thee will be done. I just wish she had ran. No one could comprehend sitting powerless to help one's child to save her soul, and be the only one to know that was happening. I protected her to my demise, who would not their child. I will still march into hell and fight for her, it was a heavenly cause. Yes i see and Heaven caused. But are they forsaken beyond life. One's alive. Is that the beast or the soul. The priests i would not ask, belief or doubt. But i pray to save them. it is bitter,

  • this song is a gem.

  • I love Rush this one of my fav song by them there amazing!! :D

  • I love the twist and turns in rush's music, fantastic!

  • the lyrics are posted front and center yet they seem to evade attention by nearly all...Is there not a dreamer here **stuck** in a sh*t job who get's these lyrics?

  • 3 people aren't cool... they will be cast out.

  • Happy Birthday Neil Peart (September 12)

  • 300th like :D

  • rush is the best band on earth

  • 13,000 listens later....goosebumps

  • This song reminds me of "limelight" the way he sings it.

  • Good job on this vidio these lyrics are fantastic I've always listened to rush but I never actually paid close attention now after reading them rush are pure musicians to the word this song hits the nail on the head in terms of the burbs these lyrics are so %100 true

  • Thanking you for posting the lyrics. This is my all time favorite song. How these guys are not in the Hall of Fame is an absolute disgrace. Long live RUSH

  • Music back then is one of the best.........now a days its uncommon to find good.....anything! RUSH Forever!

  • 3 people must have been cast out.

  • @hoss861 all those 3 people this and 10 people that comments are so fucking annoying. and btw, this song is FOR the castouts, the misfits, the dreamers, the non-conformists.

  • @hoss861 no no no, 3 people have been conformed, the 341 people were cast out, thats better =)

  • @hoss861 Nope! Not at all... them three "conformed". (This most excellent classic wasn't made for the likes o' them anyway...)

  • @hoss861 No excuse. I was cast out all my life, and this song is still great =)

  • @hoss861 That would make the 63,107 ppl who hit Like the conformists...

    Dont think you understand the lyrics.

  • @piratebri So if we hit the "like" button we are conformists?

  • @piratebri I think we like the poetry of this and the great performer's RUSH... I know exactly what this means. No not good, but conform or be conformed by OUR government. you think we're free? Not really.But don't be different or you'll be shut down.

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  • I accidentally clicked dislike... Damn.

  • I've known about this song for years but I've never really payed attention to the lyrics. I never knew rush could be so deep :)

  • Classic song, the angst of youth.  :-) First heard it on the way to SUNY Oneonta to pick up a friend to go to the 250cc USGP motocross at Unadilla many years ago.

  • its amazing how they arent in the R&R hall of fame, yet grandmaster flash & the furious 5 made it there 5 years ago

  • Awesome band. You can tell they work extremly hard to write these complex songs. Theres not one band out there like them. Maybe Dream Theater but no lol

  • # 1 band.

  • fucking neil peart!!!!!!

  • My ex boyfriend got me into this song... and every time i listen to it brings tears to my eyes :(

  • @20monsterenergy11 That's terrible, now you can't listen to this song and appreciate it fully.

    Oh, and the break-up is sad too.

  • @MrAdrianbelew I know :( meh whatever, not going to stop be from listen to this song

  • Hey host! good job on the vid man! but uum one small thing! the lyrics are not correct un the chorus.

    any escape might help disprove the unattractive truth.

    should read : Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

  • @StraightUpScott Like you and your mother? Go back to david guetta damn loser.

  • @StraightUpScott lol and u swallow ur dads cock, right? GTFO faggot

  • @StraightUpScott Yes, Rush blows...blows my mind away!

  • @c0mf0rta61ynum6 They also suck... Suck the stress of life right out of my mind and put me in a great mood.

  • @StraightUpScott You don't deserve ears.

  • This song reminds me of my childhood in the early 2000's. I remember hearing this song all the time and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I really thank my dad for introducing Rush to me at such a young age. Rock on!!

  • I miss the good ol' synthesizer days

  • @CubsFan2812 same here buddy!

  • great Canadian band.,that was music