Much of Rush’s lyrics back then are still relevant today. It’s like the band kept warning us about a dystopian future.
Examples:
The push to outlaw gasoline-powered cars? Red Barchetta.
Where a socialist utopia leads? 2112.
Where so-called “social justice” leads? The Trees.
And Neil also read history books and applied them to times like these. (Of course, if he were alive, he would be thinking that it was Trump that had just met his Bastille day).
“There’s no bread, let them eat cake
There’s no end to what they’ll take”
Neal Peart wrote some amazing lyrics, so deep in their meanings of everyday life. I have friends who worked and toured with them back in the day, both before and after the unfortunate tragedies in Neal’s family life. They all have said about him that he read so much, and about so many things, that he could carry on deep conversation on just about anything. He was also, by far, the most conservative person in the group. Also a bit of a recluse, both on tour and in his personal life. His home was literally hidden in the middle of nowhere in Quebec.