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Available Light

Play of light A photograph The way I used to be Some half-forgotten stranger Doesn’t mean that much to me

Lyrics by Rush:

The restless wind
Has seen all things
In every kind of light
Rising with the full moon
To go howling through the night

The sleepless wind
Has heard all things
Between the sea and sky
In the canyons of the city
You can hear the buildings cry

Oh, the wind can carry
All the voices of the sea
Oh, the wind can carry
All the echoes home to me

Oh, the wind can carry
All the voices of the sea
Oh, the wind can carry
All the echoes home to me

Run with wind and weather
To the music of the sea
All four winds together
Can’t bring the world to me
Chase the wind around the world
I want to look at life
In the available light

Play of light
A photograph
The way I used to be
Some half-forgotten stranger
Doesn’t mean that much to me

Trick of light
Moving picture
Moments caught in flight
Make the shadows darker
Or the colors shine too bright

Oh, the light can carry
All the visions of the sea
Oh, the light can carry
All the images to me

Run to light from shadow
Sun gives me no rest
Promise offered in the east
Broken in the west
Chase the sun around the world
I want to look at life
In the available light

Oh, the wind can carry
All the voices of the sea
Oh, the wind can carry
All the echoes home to me

All four winds together
Can’t bring the world to me
Shadows hide the play of light
So much I want to see
Chase the light around the world
I want to look at life
In the available light

I’ll go with the wind
Oh, the wind can carry
In the available light
I’ll stand in the light

Oh, the wind can carry
In the available light
I’ll go with the wind

Oh, the wind can carry
In the available light
I’ll stand in the light

Oh, the wind can carry
In the available light
I’ll go with the wind

Comment: Lots of nice symbolism with these lyrics that remind me of religious ideas.


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Responses to “Available Light”

  1. hajush

    Wow – I didn’t know Rush referenced the Bible. Maybe they didn’t intend to. But Ezekiel 37:9 (Revised Standard Version, replacing breath with wind as the footnotes in the RSV allow as alternates).

    Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the Wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the Wind, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O Wind, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.”

    1. Larry Morris

      Great observation!

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