Limelight lyrics

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 .

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".

"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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