Limelight lyrics

Dec 7th 2011 9:37 pm

Well it means who ever wants to be famous has to give up some stuff..

trw · Feb 10th 2011 11:34 am

I hate people. My piss off theme song. I sing this going to the mall or grocery store. You know when you bump into someone and then you have to fake a smile.

paradox · Nov 14th 2010 4:23 pm

I think the meaning is about the "soul camera". Life is a movie and we're all here to play our part - we're all directors and stars of our own show. One of the words is wrong, but the 'correct lyrics' link is not available for this song. In the lines... "the universal dream, for those who wish to seem" it's not "seem", it's "see".

BURWHO · Sep 30th 2010 4:06 pm

I dont think peart has a social angxiety problem at all. In fact i belive he is normal for not embracing every stranger he meets. Maybe the majority of people that do accept strangers as "long awated friends" have a social acceptance disorder. Think about it.

shaman69 · Sep 24th 2010 1:22 am

It means that neil peart has a social angxiety dissorder. He can't handel the attention, even one on one. Like most really brilliant and/or talented people, he has a problem dealing with the rest of us. Listen; rush is always deep but dial it back about three notches guys, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

nuclearmike · Nov 17th 2009 9:40 pm

What do you expect from a little blonde? Ladyhawk, your insight is keen! It appears this song was written when the band had to deal with instant fame and all that comes with it. "performers and portrayers, each other's audience"; i love this last verse as it defines shakespeares quote so eloquently .

LadyHawke · Jun 14th 2009 3:08 am

This song is the song that keeps popping up in my head when i see all the "celebrities" dealing with the paparazzi. It is a good summary of one of the prices of fame. It also hints about the unnatural interest in "celebrities" and the weird desire (sometimes taken to the extreme) to view the "celebrity" as a friend or an intimate. It reminds me of the exaggerated displays of grief by people who never met said celebrity when that actor/singer/etc. Dies. It is that "real relation" they seek (but ignore in their own life) when they busy themselves putting celebrities on pedestals and building altars to that "deity".

Ps--littleblonde05 is talking about the rush song "freewill".

littleblonde05 · May 8th 2009 11:26 am

"you can choose a ready-guide in some celestial voice"- perhaps is the antithesis to astrological influence. Maybe geared more toward mysterious chinese zodiac, astronomical-perhaps rather than- to say it bluntly- astrological. One of the more mysterious part of these lyrics.

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