Rush - Distant Early Warning (HQ)

Official music video for "Distant Early Warning" performed by Rush in HQ. "Distant Early Warning" (a tale about nuclear war) is from the 1984 release "Grace Under Pressure". This video is posted courtesy of UMG (C) Island Def Jam Music Group (C) Vertigo

The lyrics are posted below:

An ill wind comes arising
Across the cities of the plain
Theres no swimming in the heavy water
No singing in the acid rain
Red alert
Red alert

Its so hard to stay together
Passing through revolving doors
We need someone to talk to
And someone to sweep the floors
Incomplete
Incomplete

Chorus
The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what youre going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you...

Cruising under your radar
Watching from satellites
Take a page from the red book
Keep them in your sights
Red alert
Red alert

Left and rights of passage
Black and whites of youth
Who can face the knowledge
That the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete
Absolute

Chorus

Absalom, absalom, absalom

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[stefets]

@enduro250x None

[fendergibs]

@Thornography13 the last 20 yr was the worst period, nothing from the studio made any lasting impact or influence, all mostly studio flops. Best period was 1977-1987.

[fendergibs]

@klstay vinyl was the best why bother with the tape, just record it from vinyl on the old 80s tape deck, (Nakamichi), the 1st CD of this sounded horrid

[superunt43]

@causeandeffect81 Thank you.

[causeandeffect81]

These guys were big when MTV was born, and could not stand the wave of so-so music that followed. They decided that they had not the look; concluded that the look was of greater import than the music itself.Turns out, some of us respect music on merit, and not appeal.

[anaximander24]

unbelievably amazing song...but video does not gel with it.

[klstay]

@weasel7763 no argument here. I have had all of those releases first on vynil, then tape, then CD. All great stuff, but Hemispheres and Moving Pictures still stand above the other releases from around those two periods. (Caress admittedly was an early hint that something as epic as Hemispheres might be simmering in the background...)

[weasel7763]

@klstay that one band, did Rush, Fly by night, Caress of steel, 2112, A

Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace under pressure........... Is amazing. So many different tunes, so much to love.

[klstay]

Get over it people. There is not going to be another Hemispheres (from the early days) or Moving Pictures (from the pinnacle years). That one band did both albums at all is amazing in itself.

[enduro250x]

How many bands can change there sound so many times over the years and survive?