Vital Signs

Rush, 1981

Unstable condition:

A symptom of life,

In mental,

And environmental change

Atmospheric disturbance –

The feverish flux,

Of human interface

And interchange

The impulse is pure –

Sometimes our circuits get shorted,

By external interference

Signals get crossed –

And the balance distorted

By internal incoherence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter

Everybody need a mood lifter

Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings

About the function and the form.

Everybody got to deviate

From the norm

An ounce of perception –

A pound of obscure

Process information

At half speed

Pause:

Rewind – replay –

Warm memory chip

Random-sample –

Hold the one you need

Leave out the fiction

The fact is;

This friction

Will only be worn by persistence

Leave out conditions

Courageous convictions

Will drag the dream into existence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter

Everybody need a soft filter

Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings

About the function and the form

Everybody got to elevate

From the norm…

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

Lyrics: Neil Peart