'Clear Head, New Life Ahead' Painting

Why try? I know why This feeling inside me says it's time I was gone Clear head, new life ahead It's time I was king now, not just one more pawn Fly by night, away from here Change my life again Fly by night, goodbye, my dear My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend Moon rise, thoughtful eyes Staring back at me from the window beside No fright or hindsight Leaving behind that empty feeling inside Fly by night, away from here Change my life again Fly by night, goodbye, my dear My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend, whoa Fly by night, away from here Change my life again Fly by night, goodbye, my dear My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend Start a new chapter, I find what I'm after It's changing every day The change of a season's enough of a reason To want to get away Quiet and pensive, my thoughts apprehensive The hours drift away Leaving my homeland, playing a lone hand My life begins today Fly by night, away from here Change my life again Fly by night, goodbye, my dear My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend Fly by night, away from here Change my life again Fly by night, goodbye, my dear My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend ‘Fly by NIght’ by Rush Songwriters: Peart Neil Elwood / Lee Weinrib Geddy "Fly by Night" is the title track of Rush's second album. The music was written by bassist Geddy Lee and the lyrics were penned by drummer Neil Peart. Peart wrote this song about his first trip away from home. In 1971, at 18 years old, he left behind his small-town Canadian life and flew to England. This was a major turning point in his life. Lee sings the lead vocals and on the song's middle eight, his voice is fed through a Leslie speaker. It was released as a single in May 1975. It marked the first time a single by the band was also released in markets other than the US or Canada. Peart wrote a prologue that is not in the song: "airport scurry / flurry faces / parade of passers-by / people going many places / with a smile or just a sigh / waiting, waiting, pass the time / another cigarette / get in line, gate thirty-nine / the time is not here yet." In late 1976, the song was released as a single a second time, in a live medley with "In the Mood" from the band's live album All the World's a Stage. This version became the band's first single to reach the Billboard Hot 100, charting at No. 88. Rush was a Canadian rock band consisting of Geddy Lee (bass, vocals, keyboards, composer), Alex Lifeson (guitars, composer), and Neil Peart (drums, percussion, lyricist). Formed in Toronto in 1968, the band went through several configurations until arriving at its classic lineup with the addition of Peart in 1974, just after the release of their eponymous debut album, which contained their first highly-regarded song, "Working Man". Rush is known for its musicianship, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs drawing heavily on science fiction, fantasy and philosophy. The band's style changed over the years, from a blues-inspired hard rock beginning, later moving into progressive rock, then a period marked by heavy use of synthesizers, before returning to guitar-driven hard rock since the end of the 1980s. The members of Rush have been acknowledged as some of the most proficient players on their respective instruments, with each band member winning numerous awards in magazine readers' polls. Rush's second album, 1975's Fly by Night, signalled their move into multi-part progressive rock epics, but it was the shorter title track that became a hit. Rush's fourth album, 2112 (1976), featuring the seven-part title track, became Rush's first Top 5 hit in Canada and went 3x platinum in the US. Rush hit No. 3 in Canada and the UK, and No. 4 in the US, with their seventh album, 1980's Permanent Waves, which featured more shorter tracks, including the Top 20 UK and Canadian hit, "Spirit of Radio". In 1981, with the release of Moving Pictures, Rush topped the Canadian Album Chart, while hitting No. 3 in the US and UK, and going 4x platinum in both Canada and the US. Two singles, "Limelight" and "Tom Sawyer", were Top 25 hits in Canada and Top 10 hits on the US Rock Tracks Chart. Signals (1982), which showed increased synthesizer usage, was another No. 1 album in Canada, another UK No. 3 and a US No. 10. Its first single, "New World Man" went to No. 1 in Canada and on the US Rock Tracks Chart, while "Subdivisions" became another radio favourite. Other popular Rush songs, most of which peaked highly on the US Rock Tracks Chart, include: "Closer to the Heart" off A Farewell to Kings (1977), "Distant Early Warning" off Grace Under Pressure (1984), "The Big Money" off Power Windows(1985), "Show Don't Tell" off Presto (1989), "Stick It Out" off Counterparts (1993), and the title track from 1996's Test for Echo. Rush's last five studio albums all made the Top 6 in Canada and the US, with their last, 2012's Clockwork Angels, reaching No. 1 and 2, while also going Top 10 in the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia, areas where Rush built up a following beginning in the early 1980s. Since 2000, Rush released seven live video albums, five of which hit No. 1 on Canada's Music Video Chart, with Rush in Rio (2003) going Diamond in Canada and 7x platinum in the US. Rush ceased large-scale touring at the end of 2015, and Lifeson announced in January 2018 that the band would not continue. On January 7, 2020, Peart died of glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer at the age of 67. Rush ranks 88th in the U.S. with sales of 25 million albums and industry sources estimate their total worldwide album sales at over 40 million as of 2005. Rush has been awarded 24 gold, 14 platinum and 3 multi-platinum albums in the US plus 17 platinum albums in Canada. Rush was nominated for seven Grammy Awards, won several Juno Awards, and won an International Achievement Award at the 2009 SOCAN Awards. The band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Source: WIkipedia

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