that's how I see it, subconsciously Neil's farewell to us. You see the emotional impact of possibly their last song as a band in Alex's face. Endearing
Dito to all the other replies. I am always thankful for that one friend who turned me onto Rush with their first album. If not for him I might have missed the big show entirely.
“The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, so hard to earn so easily burned. In the fullness of time a garden to nurture and protect.” R.I.P. Neil, your garden will always continue to thrive.😢
The first line of that is gold. I’m 53, half-assed artist, been thinking for about a year of doing 3-4 abstract paintings w/msgs ‘all RUSH’ That’s 1 for sure! “Opinions all provided, the future pre-decided” is another for sure. Any suggestions? Thanks 😊
@@jasonm8017 I have two: from Witch Hunt: Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand. From Territories: Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world than the pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled. Good luck with your project.👍🤘🏻
@@jasonm8017"Though it’s just a memory, some memories last forever" -Lakeside Park And I like this one too: "The sky is pitching violently Drawn by shrieking winds" -No one at the Bridge
A lot of Rush fans choke up hearing this tune, especially after Neil's death in January 2020. I'm one of them. Last song on the last studio album Rush put out, which is perhaps why the song packs such an emotional punch. For me, it's about how one can experience a life well lived, even (if not especially) in the shadow of entropy, finality, and death. PS - This was my last Rush concert (saw them nine times over the years). Still resonates hearing it, especially with the live strings.
“The future disappears into memory, with only a moment between“. Powerful indeed! When you’re young, all you think about is the future. When you’re old, all you think about is the past. And it all happened so fast.
I lost my mom and my brother to cancer, and I always burst into tears whenever I hear this. It's a beautifully moving tribute to three lives who have touched mine, who taught me about what's really important in my life, and who were taken far too soon. May they all rest in peace. Neil Peart R.I.P 🥁 🥁 🐐 🐐
Sorry for your loss. On the final two Rush tours, including clockwork Angels, I went to the the show with a lifelong friend, who was a very great person. He died in a car accident about a year after the final tour, that we attended. I think about him every time I hear this song.
Neil wrote this in memory of his wife and daughter who passed away a year apart from one another. The daughter in a car accident and his wife of cancer. Last song on their last song.
Thank you - that makes a lot of sense. And as Harri points out - it sounds like the end of a romance, where the lovers say goodbye. Also no doubt was written with a nod to retirement, and saying goodbye to the professional music scene with two life-long friends. The measure of a great song is how it can touch each one's heart on a deep and personal level, regardless of what the writer was specifically thinking about.
I can not say how much I appreciate you listening to something way outside your world. When you referred to Neil as the Professor I knew you had an appreciation to begin with! Thank you!
Great reaction Harri! This song (as with all Rush), the lyrics are as important as the music...maybe even moreso for The Garden. This was their swan song. Whether Neil (RIP) knew it then or not, this was to be their final track - and that makes the words even more poignant. The music is reflective - especially that piano solo by Alex, and then that guitar solo - honestly, since Neil's passing, I can't keep a dry eye through this piece. Typically the tears are flowing by that solo. What a gift they gave us all!! Cheers.
Rush came on the music scene like a Rocket with fast powerful music. Now as they play one of their final songs, its like your floating in space, listening to your last song you will ever hear, from one of the greatest bands on earth. What a way to go!
It was written by Neil, as the last song, on their last album. It was his way of saying "Goodbye" to all the Rush fans, and I tear-up every time I listen to it, knowing what's coming some years later. RIP to "The Professor".
From their last album, from 2012, "Clockwork Angels" This is a beautiful reflective song, who's true meaning was realized when Neil passed away 8 years later. It's the perfect balance showcasing Peart's lyrics, Lee's tender vocals and Lifeson's restrained guitar work. The beautiful piano, violins, viola, cello and the double bass all adding to the enjoyability of the outstanding tune of perfection. So beautiful. 😢😢 Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Darrell. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Except that Neil passed away in 2020, which was 8 years after Clockwork Angels was released and there was no sign he was sick when it was written. Otherwise, I agree with the sentiment.
This was their Swan Song. Last Song on the Final Album. The Future disappears into Memory, With only a Moment Between, Forever Dwells in that Moment, Hope is What Remains to be Seen. RIP NP
Hard to listen to this song without tears as it is the last song on the last album they recorded and of course The Professor died a few years later, if you re-listen and think about that and the song lyrics it's as if he had a premonition but what a song to finish on? Hope my garden is as good when I go.
Always makes me think of Neil, but the three of them are just such great people, it applies to them all. We all have our life garden's to maintain and we should do so thoughtfully.❤
Nothing I can say that others haven't already written on this comment thread. The song is the summation of Neil Peart's philosophical sensibilities. The only things with real value are the connections we make and seek with others. We all have our own gardens, filled with loved ones that we are committed to nurture and protect. When we're given a limited time to live out our lives, our connections to each other are more valuable than any material objects we would seek to accumulate. Neil was a shy man, and this song was kind of his discreet way of letting the people in his life know how much he loved them as well as how important they were. How they were the most important. It's a hell of an epitaph on a brilliant career that anchored a band that was brave enough to change with the times while never letting their individual egos tear them apart. R.I.P. Neil. Great reaction Harri!
There is a unique and special relationship between RUSH and their fans. One that does not exist anywhere else in music history. Only RUSH fans Know this.
I have already decided that this will be played at my funeral, which hopefully won’t be any time soon but I still can’t think of a better send off when the time eventually comes.
Darrellc - Welcome! I haven't seen your name before this wonderful submission. "The Garden" is a beautifully crafted song and this performance personifies that. Harri, Well done for you as well.😎
There is another song, from 'Hold Your Fire' that show's The Professor's lyrics, in a similar vein. That being 'Time Stand Still' . Deep deep tracks both....
Great request Darrell. I’m not to familiar with Rush (with the exception of their big hits)and had never heard this song. It’s beautiful. Thanks Darrell and Harri 🌺✌️
I think you would love nobody's hero live 1997 it's up your alley . they don't have a bad song so pick as you will you can't go wrong with any choice you make . rock on......
Saw this tour at Glasgow - ten years already... "Time is still the infinite jest", Rest in Peace Neil. Regarding what he knew, he was planning to retire because of arthritis and joint pain, he didn't know he was terminally ill until years after this. Still very bitter-sweet though.
I think you got it right mate👍🏼 listened to RUSH for 20yrs, only started ‘hearing’ in the last 10yrs. I’m Canadian🇨🇦 always been proud, in this case? Embarrassed. Making up for lost time. Seen them once, opening for ??? 🤷♂️ VanHalen or BonJovi? Getting to the age of regret or self appraisal? Otherwise happy 😊 to be clear, on-board in mid-late 70’s took a break….then..
Well said Harry. It was the end of a romance in a real sense. It's the culmination of the protagonist in Clockwork Angeles story-theme & as the last song on the final Album a fine & final farewell to the Stage and fans.
There's a popular misconception that Neil Peart knew he was ill when he wrote this song and meant it as his "goodbye" to his fans. However, it was written a full five years before he became ill, and there was no plan at the time for Clockwork Angels to be the band's final album. The fact that it was the last song on the last album is purely a coincidence, albeit a sadly fitting one.
and its about a life ending or receiving very bad news and how the people who loved that life deal with it. Could be your own life or someone who you were very close with. Everything about your life could change in an instant.
In the '70s the NME was trying to write off Rush as Right Wing extremists, although I could never see it myself. I'll be honest, I've never heard this song before but it's grabbed my attention, even though I think that it needs a few more listens to fully appreciate it. The musicianship is excellent here. One small point, and I'm probably not even correct here, I thought a few of the guitar phrases were reminiscent of, "In the Garden of Jane Delawney." I'm sure that Rush would have heard it, I wonder if it was an unconscious response to "garden." Very good choice and reaction.,
When this album came out and listened this song, the lat on the album and last ever Rush song 'Garden' I kenew it ment that this was the end, but usually so stivckt with his privacy and privat life, Neil gave some interviews and he had the knowledge at the time about his aggressive brain cancer and very shorth life expectancy. THERE ARE SOME STUPID PEOPLE OUT TEHERE, BUT IN GENERAL, HUMANS ODF ANY RACE OR NATION HAVE SO BIG AND POWERFUL BRAINS THAT IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE, WHY WE HAVE THIS CAPACITY TO FILL OUR BRAINS IF WE WERE HEALTHY AND SO ON, we would practically never run out of memory space, as human brains don't work like computers, but it is a network with different variations of connections and those combined possible connections are more than the amount of atoms in this Universe. This may sound completely rubbish as a similar claim sounded in well known chess strory, when the inventor of the game presented his creation to a ruler of some kind, and this man was excited and asked: What do you want from this game? And the inventor told him that ' Only one grain of rice to the first square and then two to the other and so on... always twice the grains on each new square... Oh man... how cheap this guy sold himself for just some grains... what a moron... oh wait
The last song on their final album.
This was Neil's farewell to RUSH fans.
This song makes me cry every time.
Me too
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that's how I see it, subconsciously Neil's farewell to us. You see the emotional impact of possibly their last song as a band in Alex's face. Endearing
Dito to all the other replies. I am always thankful for that one friend who turned me onto Rush with their first album. If not for him I might have missed the big show entirely.
“The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, so hard to earn so easily burned. In the fullness of time a garden to nurture and protect.” R.I.P. Neil, your garden will always continue to thrive.😢
Truth.
The first line of that is gold. I’m 53, half-assed artist, been thinking for about a year of doing 3-4 abstract paintings w/msgs ‘all RUSH’ That’s 1 for sure! “Opinions all provided, the future pre-decided” is another for sure.
Any suggestions? Thanks 😊
@@jasonm8017 I have two: from Witch Hunt: Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
From Territories: Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world than the pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled.
Good luck with your project.👍🤘🏻
@@jimtatro6550 nice 👍🏼 appreciate that
@@jasonm8017"Though it’s just a memory, some memories last forever" -Lakeside Park
And I like this one too:
"The sky is pitching violently
Drawn by shrieking winds" -No one at the Bridge
A lot of Rush fans choke up hearing this tune, especially after Neil's death in January 2020.
I'm one of them.
Last song on the last studio album Rush put out, which is perhaps why the song packs such an emotional punch.
For me, it's about how one can experience a life well lived, even (if not especially) in the shadow of entropy, finality, and death.
PS - This was my last Rush concert (saw them nine times over the years). Still resonates hearing it, especially with the live strings.
“The future disappears into memory, with only a moment between“. Powerful indeed! When you’re young, all you think about is the future. When you’re old, all you think about is the past. And it all happened so fast.
The perfect song to end a tremendous career. Rush is the best.
Glad you finally got to this Harri. Absolutely Neil Peart's most beautiful lyrics.
An absolutely beautiful song, beautifully and masterfully performed. Great reaction.
RIP Professor.
I lost my mom and my brother to cancer, and I always burst into tears whenever I hear this. It's a beautifully moving tribute to three lives who have touched mine, who taught me about what's really important in my life, and who were taken far too soon. May they all rest in peace.
Neil Peart R.I.P 🥁 🥁 🐐 🐐
Sorry for your loss. On the final two Rush tours, including clockwork Angels, I went to the the show with a lifelong friend, who was a very great person. He died in a car accident about a year after the final tour, that we attended. I think about him every time I hear this song.
Neil wrote this in memory of his wife and daughter who passed away a year apart from one another. The daughter in a car accident and his wife of cancer. Last song on their last song.
Thank you - that makes a lot of sense. And as Harri points out - it sounds like the end of a romance, where the lovers say goodbye. Also no doubt was written with a nod to retirement, and saying goodbye to the professional music scene with two life-long friends. The measure of a great song is how it can touch each one's heart on a deep and personal level, regardless of what the writer was specifically thinking about.
Such a beautiful song! ❤
Alex Lifeson wrote that piano part. It is beautiful in it's simplicity that can emote such emotion.
Miss you Neil.
Thank you for all you have given us.
I can not say how much I appreciate you listening to something way outside your world. When you referred to Neil as the Professor I knew you had an appreciation to begin with! Thank you!
Great reaction Harri! This song (as with all Rush), the lyrics are as important as the music...maybe even moreso for The Garden. This was their swan song. Whether Neil (RIP) knew it then or not, this was to be their final track - and that makes the words even more poignant. The music is reflective - especially that piano solo by Alex, and then that guitar solo - honestly, since Neil's passing, I can't keep a dry eye through this piece. Typically the tears are flowing by that solo.
What a gift they gave us all!! Cheers.
Rush came on the music scene like a Rocket with fast powerful music. Now as they play one of their final songs, its like your floating in space, listening to your last song you will ever hear, from one of the greatest bands on earth. What a way to go!
Exactly!
Rush ♥ Always.
It was written by Neil, as the last song, on their last album. It was his way of saying "Goodbye" to all the Rush fans, and I tear-up every time I listen to it, knowing what's coming some years later. RIP to "The Professor".
From their last album, from 2012, "Clockwork Angels" This is a beautiful reflective song, who's true meaning was realized when Neil passed away 8 years later.
It's the perfect balance showcasing Peart's lyrics, Lee's tender vocals and Lifeson's restrained guitar work.
The beautiful piano, violins, viola, cello and the double bass all adding to the enjoyability of the outstanding tune of perfection. So beautiful. 😢😢 Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Darrell. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Well said Mary 🤘RUSH🤘let's keep their music alive forever .Smiles 😃from 🇨🇦
A beautiful goodbye from Neil and the band 🤘RUSH🇨🇦 Keep the music alive. Smiles 😃from 🇨🇦
Except that Neil passed away in 2020, which was 8 years after Clockwork Angels was released and there was no sign he was sick when it was written. Otherwise, I agree with the sentiment.
@@lewisbernstein4272 Thanks for the right information. Cheers from Canada 👍✌️🎶🇨🇦
Protecting the Garden in other words your family loved ones ❤
A 40+ year Rush fan here… I weep every time I hear this song. R.I.P. The Professor and long love the mighty Rush
This was their Swan Song. Last Song on the Final Album.
The Future disappears into Memory,
With only a Moment Between,
Forever Dwells in that Moment,
Hope is What Remains to be Seen.
RIP NP
One of my fav’s.
Always excellent, Harri! ❤
Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏
Epic performance. That tour was amazing with the string ensemble. Thanks!
This is only one of a few songs in my 50 years on this planet that hits me right in the feels... 😢
Thank you, Harri. A beautiful song, with a beautiful message.
Hard to listen to this song without tears as it is the last song on the last album they recorded and of course The Professor died a few years later, if you re-listen and think about that and the song lyrics it's as if he had a premonition but what a song to finish on? Hope my garden is as good when I go.
Always makes me think of Neil, but the three of them are just such great people, it applies to them all. We all have our life garden's to maintain and we should do so thoughtfully.❤
Nothing I can say that others haven't already written on this comment thread. The song is the summation of Neil Peart's philosophical sensibilities. The only things with real value are the connections we make and seek with others. We all have our own gardens, filled with loved ones that we are committed to nurture and protect. When we're given a limited time to live out our lives, our connections to each other are more valuable than any material objects we would seek to accumulate. Neil was a shy man, and this song was kind of his discreet way of letting the people in his life know how much he loved them as well as how important they were. How they were the most important. It's a hell of an epitaph on a brilliant career that anchored a band that was brave enough to change with the times while never letting their individual egos tear them apart. R.I.P. Neil. Great reaction Harri!
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Nice to see this Rush Reactions! 🥺 I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying... 😞 rip Neil Peart 🐰
Such a beautiful meaningful reacttion..song.. thank you for a really meaning ful eloquent reaction
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Melancholy is the word your looking for 😉
You cant say goodbye any better
The last song on the last album. what a way to go out. beautiful and prophetic.
Phenomenal ❤❤❤❤ 🇨🇦
A masterpiece. Lyrically, musically, in the performance, the artistic additions - just so powerful & emotional. Thanks for this! RIP Neil. ❤
I have given explicit instructions to my family that this is to be played at mu memorial service. Top 5 Rush song for me.
There is a unique and special relationship between RUSH and their fans. One that does not exist anywhere else in music history. Only RUSH fans Know this.
I have already decided that this will be played at my funeral, which hopefully won’t be any time soon but I still can’t think of a better send off when the time eventually comes.
Darrellc - Welcome! I haven't seen your name before this wonderful submission. "The Garden" is a beautifully crafted song and this performance personifies that. Harri, Well done for you as well.😎
There is another song, from 'Hold Your Fire' that show's The Professor's lyrics, in a similar vein. That being 'Time Stand Still' . Deep deep tracks both....
❤ greatest band of all time they have done everything from jazzy to punk and everything in between. The rabbit hole starts. 😅
Great request Darrell. I’m not to familiar with Rush (with the exception of their big hits)and had never heard this song. It’s beautiful. Thanks Darrell and Harri 🌺✌️
This is a masterpiece
Bass begins - chest tightens. Seeing Neil, heart breaks. Forever in this man's heart and mind.
Have a garden!
First time I heard Geddy Lee sing where it doesnt sound like he took a hit of helium!
This was a song from their final album.
When Neil retired from drumming in 2015 he got a job as a librarian at a grade school.
I think you would love nobody's hero live 1997 it's up your alley . they don't have a bad song so pick as you will you can't go wrong with any choice you make . rock on......
They sometimes are not serious on stage,but this one they show full emotion…
Saw this tour at Glasgow - ten years already... "Time is still the infinite jest", Rest in Peace Neil. Regarding what he knew, he was planning to retire because of arthritis and joint pain, he didn't know he was terminally ill until years after this. Still very bitter-sweet though.
I think you got it right mate👍🏼 listened to RUSH for 20yrs, only started ‘hearing’ in the last 10yrs. I’m Canadian🇨🇦 always been proud, in this case? Embarrassed. Making up for lost time. Seen them once, opening for ??? 🤷♂️ VanHalen or BonJovi? Getting to the age of regret or self appraisal? Otherwise happy 😊 to be clear, on-board in mid-late 70’s took a break….then..
A suitable credo for a man of Neil’s stature and a goal I will always strive for thanks to him.
Well said Harry. It was the end of a romance in a real sense. It's the culmination of the protagonist in Clockwork Angeles story-theme & as the last song on the final Album a fine & final farewell to the Stage and fans.
neil looking like the most bored man on earth when making some of the best drums haha
There's a popular misconception that Neil Peart knew he was ill when he wrote this song and meant it as his "goodbye" to his fans. However, it was written a full five years before he became ill, and there was no plan at the time for Clockwork Angels to be the band's final album. The fact that it was the last song on the last album is purely a coincidence, albeit a sadly fitting one.
🎼🎹🎻 Honourably made in Canada 🇨🇦🥁🎸🎼
and its about a life ending or receiving very bad news and how the people who loved that life deal with it. Could be your own life or someone who you were very close with. Everything about your life could change in an instant.
In the '70s the NME was trying to write off Rush as Right Wing extremists, although I could never see it myself.
I'll be honest, I've never heard this song before but it's grabbed my attention, even though I think that it needs a few more listens to fully appreciate it. The musicianship is excellent here.
One small point, and I'm probably not even correct here, I thought a few of the guitar phrases were reminiscent of, "In the Garden of Jane Delawney." I'm sure that Rush would have heard it, I wonder if it was an unconscious response to "garden."
Very good choice and reaction.,
When this album came out and listened this song, the lat on the album and last ever Rush song 'Garden' I kenew it ment that this was the end, but usually so stivckt with his privacy and privat life, Neil gave some interviews and he had the knowledge at the time about his aggressive brain cancer and very shorth life expectancy. THERE ARE SOME STUPID PEOPLE OUT TEHERE, BUT IN GENERAL, HUMANS ODF ANY RACE OR NATION HAVE SO BIG AND POWERFUL BRAINS THAT IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE, WHY WE HAVE THIS CAPACITY TO FILL OUR BRAINS IF WE WERE HEALTHY AND SO ON, we would practically never run out of memory space, as human brains don't work like computers, but it is a network with different variations of connections and those combined possible connections are more than the amount of atoms in this Universe. This may sound completely rubbish as a similar claim sounded in well known chess strory, when the inventor of the game presented his creation to a ruler of some kind, and this man was excited and asked: What do you want from this game? And the inventor told him that ' Only one grain of rice to the first square and then two to the other and so on... always twice the grains on each new square... Oh man... how cheap this guy sold himself for just some grains... what a moron... oh wait
Aux revoire mon ami
🤍💛🧡💗💚💙💜🤎🖤✌
Definitely not one of their best
This song was literally the end of RUSH. The last song on their last album. The perfect swan song.