Shannon’s Perspective:
There are some really good songs on this album and this is one of them but I don’t really listen to it or any of the album much. As I believe I have mentioned before Larry went through what I’ll call peak Rush obsession in 1997, which is also the year Shane died. Hold Your Fire, the album this song is on, was one of the albums he was obsessed with at that time. I guess over time I just found it easier to not even really listen to the album as it took me back to a time I did not necessarily want to go back to. Which is sad because there are some very poignant lyrics on this song and others. Maybe now is a good time to go back and listen to it again.
There was a time when I listened to this album, Hold Your Fire, obsessively.
If I'm correct, this is the third song featured off of this album - Time Stand Still and Second Nature being the other two. This is not my favorite album, but three off of one must mean these songs speak to me deeply.
All you have to do is read these lyrics with a minimal amount of open-mindedness and you are this person.
How many times do we swallow whatever (anger, frustration, grief) and just stare off into space when we should be looking directly at our support mechanisms. Letting those barriers fall and having conversations. Making sure there is clarity behind what we say so there's no room for misinterpretation.
This isn't even scratching the surface of things that happens to us as children that may never see the light of day.
But the only way out is through. You could try to understand me. I could try to understand you...
Open Secrets
Music by Lee and Lifeson / Lyrics by Peart
It went right by me
At the time it went over my head
I was looking out the window
I should have looked at your face instead
It went right by me
Just another wall
There should have been a moment
When we let our barriers fall
I never meant what you're thinking
That's not what I meant at all
Well, I guess we all have these feelings
We can't leave unreconciled
Some of them burned on our ceilings
Some of them learned as a child
The things that we're concealing
Will never let us grow
Time will do its healing
You've got to let it go
Closed for my protection
Open to your scorn
Between these two directions
My heart is sometimes torn
I lie awake with my secrets
Spinning 'round my head
Something that somehow escaped me
Something you shouldn't have said
I was looking out the window
I should have looked at your face instead
Well, I guess we all have these feelings
We can't leave unreconciled
Some of them burned on our ceilings
Some of them learned as a child
The things that we're concealing
Will never let us grow
Time will do its healing
You've got to let it go
Let it go
I find no absolution
In my rational point of view
Maybe some things are instinctive
But there's one thing you could do
You could try to understand me
I could try to understand you
You could try to understand me
I could try to understand you
Well, I guess we all have these feelings
We can't leave unreconciled
Some of them burned on our ceilings
Some of them learned as a child
The things that we're concealing
Will never let us grow
Time will do it's healing
You've got to let it go
Let it go...
Let it go...
Let it go...
30th Anniversary
Our Story - Shannon's Perspective
Our Story - Larry's Perspective
Ghost of a Chance (Rush) and why?
Ghost of a Chance 