100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #8: Rush, Losing It

A brutally honest song and a gorgeous piece of Prog.  The literary allusion in the final lyric identifies the writer in the second verse as Ernest Hemmingway.  The narrator’s conclusion, “Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it” always gives me pause for thought, and the final lyric, “For you the blind who once could see/The bell tolls for thee” is one of the few fatalistic lines in any song which actually makes me feel pretty glad about things.  Because that bell is going to toll for all of us, eventually, isn’t it?

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