Rush - Tom Sawyer (Official Music Video - 1981) [HQ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANiaZv... Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart. Moving Pictures 1981. From the Chronicles DVD. Original Quality of Sound and Video. The song was written by Lee, Peart, and guitarist Alex Lifeson in collaboration with Canadian lyricist Pye Dubois (the lyricist of Max Webster), who also co-wrote other Rush songs such as "Force Ten," "Between Sun and Moon," and "Test For Echo." According to the US radio show In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the making of Moving Pictures), "Tom Sawyer" came about during a summer rehearsal holiday that Rush spent at Ronnie Hawkins' farm outside Toronto. Peart was presented with a poem by Dubois named "Louis the Lawyer" (often cited as "Louis the Warrior") that he modified and expanded. Lee and Lifeson then helped set the poem to music. The unique growling sound heard in the song came from Lee's fiddling with his Oberheim OB-X synthesizer.

In the December 1985 Rush Backstage Club newsletter, drummer and lyricist Neil Peart said:
" Tom Sawyer was a collaboration between myself and Pye Dubois, an excellent lyricist who wrote the lyrics for Max Webster. His original lyrics were kind of 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".
(Wikipedia). Lyrics...

Rush - Tom Sawyer

A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride

Though his mind is not for rent
Don't put him down as arrogant
His reserve, a quiet defense
Riding out the day's events
The river

What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the mist, catch the myth
Catch the mystery, catch the drift

The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep
Maybe as his skies are wide

Today's Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the space he invades
He gets by on you

No his mind is not for rent
To any god or government
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is

What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the witness, catch the wit
Catch the spirit, catch the spit

The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep
Maybe as his eyes are wide

Exit the warrior
Today's Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the energy you trade
He gets right on to the friction of the day

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[Jesse Nidesh]

3 of the best musician's ever, a perfect mix, a one off...RUSH.

[amcanmike]

JOHN BONHAM SAID IN 1979 AFTER A RUSH CONCERT.WOW I WISH II COULD COULD PLAY DRUMS LIKE THAT.

[dave1986R]

Great song. That last shot of the studio at the very end looks like something you might see in a painting.

[buddyroach]

This song is so CA$H!

[aabbcc3804]

Que sinfonia para meus ouvidos, tocam muito!!!!

[JACOBANTZ]

Dear all drummers, or other musicians:

I am 15 years old, and have been playing drums for just over 2 years. At the moment I’m at the stage where I’m okay, but trying my hardest to become much better. I am in need of people to watch me playing and let me know what I do well and what I do not, because without your feedback I can’t possibly improve! So if you could please just take a few minutes to watch at least one of my videos and leave a comment then that would be hugely appreciated! Thanks:)

[miguel fajardo]

nothing like Rush baby

[Pogrom]

dear Geddy Lee your voice is not an instrument k thx

[Lewis Skolnick]

Stephen Morris.....You said Moon but forgot Morris!!

[KitsChannel]

Sorry to disappoint you but just because you idolize someone does not mean you can not surpass them like Neil did John.

[amcanmike]

SORRY,BONHAM IS GOOD,PEART IS FAR BETTER A DRUMMER IN MANY WAYS,I TOO AM A DRUMMER FOR MANY YEARS, AND HOW DO YOU KNOW BONHAM NEVER SEEN RUSH,YOU DONT KNOW EVERYTHING THAT HE DID DO YOU?

[Brendan Wilkerson]

Watching this in 2013