Vital Signs - Rush

"Vital Signs" is a song by progressive rock trio Rush from their 8th studio album Moving Pictures. The lyrics of the song are about individuality and the pressures of conforming.

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
Lyrics: Neil Peart

Unstable condition:
A symptom of life,
In mental,
And environmental change

Atmospheric disturbance –
The feverish flux,
Of human interface
And interchange

The impulse is pure –
Sometimes our circuits get shorted,
By external interference

Signals get crossed –
And the balance distorted
By internal incoherence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a mood lifter
Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form.
Everybody got to deviate
From the norm

An ounce of perception –
A pound of obscure
Process information
At half speed

Pause:
Rewind – replay –
Warm memory chip
Random-sample –
Hold the one you need

Leave out the fiction
The fact is;
This friction
Will only be worn by persistence

Leave out conditions
Courageous convictions
Will drag the dream into existence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a soft filter
Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to elevate
From the norm…