Rush-The Body Electric [Grace Under Pressure 1984]

"The Body Electric"
Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart
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One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun

Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode -- crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload

Chorus:
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
SOS
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
In distress
1-0-0-1-0-0

Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits

Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist
To resist
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist

Chorus

It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head and prays
To the mother of all machines
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The song is based on Twilight Zone episode #100 - "I Sing the Body Electric." The episode originally aired in 1962. It's about a family who orders a robot "Grandmother" after the death of their young mother. Written by Ray Bradbury, the name came from a Walt Whitman poem. The story was later included in a short stories collection with the same title in 1969.
It describes a robot that struggles to break free of the hegemony of the robots' social structure. The chorus repeats several times:
one-zero-zero-one-zero-zero-one SOS
one-zero-zero-one-zero-zero-one In Distress
1001001 is ASCII code for the letter 'I.' This could indicate the robot's motivation for escape - it's attainment of self-awareness.

The song appeared on Grace Under Pressure,the tenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1984.

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• body
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• grace
• under
• pressure
• 1984

[jaymanxyz2]

Thanks for the upload

[viduka0101]

you're welcome

i love the song

[hustler3of4culture3]

1001001=73 in base 2

or

100 100 1 = 4 4  1 .

441/73=6 with a remainder of 3

3 the number of members in the band

they are what remains

[truthaintpretty]

Ah yes, when they really MADE VIDEO....before point and click

[sYnerGyZniGmA]

audio level is too low

[WESTVALLEYEAGLESFB04]

love this song... I love 1980s music I was born 09/14/1984

[tonebenderx]

That guy is being chased by Daft Punk.

[BillyBughead]

Wow, this was one of my favorite tunes back in the day. I never knew there was a video for it. (Of course not. Like Emtpy-Vee was going to play Rush?) Thanks for posting. Very Logan's Run in flavor. I love the way the security forces walk lol

[jimmyg869]

gratefuldank mentioned "Ayn Rand?"

Neil Peart's lyrics do have the flavor of Ayn Rand. In fact, one of the songs is titled "Anthem" . Not going to spoil the book -- read it !!! -- but has something to do with not the letter "I" but the word "I".

Great book. Not only my HS son read it for English, I ended up re-reading it.

[hustler3of4culture3]

@DancingTigerBait

excellent point , i did mispeak

[Groenlandshval]

@hustler3of4culture3

Yeah, we all know that 73 is the perfect number. Sheldon kindly pointed that out to all of us in "The Big Bang Theory", but apparently Rush knew of that long before then. 42 seems not to be the complete answer.

[CarManCam]

0:19 "OH SHIT!" xD

[leofandersoniii]

1001001 reminds me of winston smith in the publishing facility. does this one have a name?