Any of you godless heathens Rush fans (I mean the band of course)

[TZ]

More and more I've come to appreciate how much their atheistic lyrics appeal to me..They've had some really fine thoughtful pieces on reason vs religion over the years including such songs as Free Will and Faithless (and if you want a truly amazing experience try going to a concert and listening to 10,000+ people singing "I will choose Free Will" at the top of their voices :))
But a song from their upcoming Clockwork Angels album takes the cake as the best written critique of religion they've done yet. Its called BU2B (brought up to believe) and here are the lyrics:
I was brought up to believe
The universe has a plan
We are only human
It’s not ours to understand

The universe has a plan
All is for the best
Some will be rewarded
And the devil take the rest

All is for the best
Believe in what we’re told
Blind men in the market
Buying what we’re sold
Believe in what we’re told
Until our final breath
WHILE OUR LOVING WATCHMAKER
LOVES US ALL TO DEATH

In a world of cut and thrust
I was always taught to trust
In a world where all must fail
Heaven’s justice will prevail

The joy and pain that we receive
Each comes with its own cost
The price of what we’re winning
Is the same as what we’ve lost

Until our final breath
The joy and pain that we receive
Must be what we deserve
I was brought up to believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYTOZU9rRj8
I figured many of you could identify with this song.:headbang:
Its kind of surprising that given how many out and out atheistic songs they have the fundies never have gone after them the way they go after the "Satanic" bands.

[Twillig]

1. I saw them in concert twice back in the '79-81 timespan.

I'd say they were a great value in concert. Played their asses off!

I've bought some of their early albums.

2112 is the only one I have on my ipod. The others were on vinyl and lost etc.

I'm not a big fan and I have discovered in my old age that I don't care--at all--about anybody's lyrics.

Thumbs up, though.

:thumbsup:

[darkstar3]

2. Rush is a little too prog for me.

Of course, my opinion of them is also colored by a acquaintence, who is a drummer so up his own ass about music that he derides anything and everything that makes it to the radio.

[ZombieHorde]

3. Do you play a rock instrument? Everyone one I know in person who loves Rush plays either

guitar, bass, or drums. Rush seems to be a musician's band.

[TZ]

6. I don't but I know a lot of musicians

My stepdad is a drummer for example. Oddly it was a member of this board who is a MATHEMATICIAN by trade who got me into them.:)

[darkstar3]

7. Prog rock is often called "mathcore" or "math rock" due to the complex time signatures.

That's why I like Tool and a lot of other bands in that genre. Somehow, though, I've never "got" Rush.

[SkyDaddy7]

4. Thanks for posting! nt.

[pizzadave]

5. Rush Enlightened

TZ, Saw Rush a couple of weeks ago in Detroit and did pick up on their 'atheist trilogy'.
Amazing rock-n-roll from those heathens. BTW, if anyone has seen their DVD that documents the tour of South America, Alex has a copy of Hitchens book on his lap when they are flying on their jet.

The 'fundies' probably don't get 'it'. Too many apostrophes?:yourock: