It's just beautiful, not much more can be said about this exceptional song and so beautifully performed. It always brings a tear to my eye. Thank you Neil and thank you Rush.
This song always reminds me of this quote from "Beyond the Lighted Stage"... Jack Black : "Rush is just one of those bands that has a deep reservoir of rocket sauce. A lot of bands - they've only got so much in the bottle. They use it up sometimes in one song. These guys were the real deal. Their bottle was so big and so filled to the brim, they were shaking it literally for decades. And still there was sauce coming out." Like you said this song is different than what you would expect from them yet after a career of 40 years they are still creative and motivated enough to deliver this to their fans.
My mom is currently in hospice care and this brought tears to my eyes as I think about her final days. The hours tick away, the cells tick away.......Very powerful and emotional. 😩
I lost my mom and my brother - he's the one who introduced me to Rush - to cancer, so The Garden has always been very emotional for me; today, I was closing the sale on the house in which I've lived my entire life, and seeing this performance with the string ensemble has left me crying my eyes out. It's a beautifully moving tribute to three lives that have touched mine, that were taken far too soon. May they rest in peace, knowing that their gardens are being well looked after. Neil Peart R.I.P 🥁 🥁 🐐 🐐
Yep! If one was to write the last song on the last album of a career which has spanned 4 decades, this would be it! It's a beautiful piece and yes, it almost doesn't sound like Rush, but it's a perfect bow on the 40+ year gift. Justin, Thank you for sharing and taking us all on this wonderful ride. I hope you are fine after the hurricane. Take care (and don't be harsh)! 😉
One of my favorite songs from them. My daughter (23) passed away in '22 from cancer. This song hits home and brings a tear to my eye everytime I hear it. It's almost seems like Neil wrote it for her.
What a beautiful simple song to close out their discography. A perfect FU to anyone who thinks Rush is just this or just that. That's what really elevates this album in the rankings. FYI, Alex plays the keys on Time Stand Still and Superconductor, too.
Alex wrote the piano part and demo'd it but for recording they got their friend Jason Sniderman to play it on a Steinway grand piano (Jason also played piano on the Presto album).
Such a transcendent piece of music, possibly their pièce de résistance. Any band would give anything to have something like that be their final song. The strings really put this song over the top, especially live. Goddamn, I'm actually proud to have worshipped this band most of my life. They enriched my existence beyond measure.
Alex’s solo sounds so emotively organic. It comes in just perfectly, the tone is amazing and the elasticity in the climax is sublime. You can hear the emotion in Geddy’s vocals too. The sparse piano? Chefs kiss and the lyrics are as good of a credo for a life as you could wish. Concert Graphics, string section, Neil’s restraint, blah blah blah, you get the idea.
Yep Yep and Yep. Agreed completely. Amazing song, amazing lyrics. Outstanding performance. Yes he did play it on the record and read somewhere the guitar solo was done in one take. Top five fave songs from them,
There's a long way indeed between "Live for yourself/There's no one more worth living for" and "A measure of a life/Is a measure of love and respect." The man lived and evolved.
In the first one he was echoing the philosophy of Ayn Rand. In the second, he was setting out the definition of his own, much deeper and profound philosophy on the world.
As you said, The Garden is unlike any song they've ever written. Tai Shan, too, is unlike any song they've ever written. The difference being that The Garden doesn't sound like it belongs in a Disney movie. It was something to hear this live with a string section. Extremely powerful.
Jason Sniderman plays the piano part on the record (edit: I guess someone else already posted this). I really like how Alex goes from the piano part into his guitar solo. Probably my favorite section of the song.
Just a beautiful performance! Beautiful song! I think Neil knew this was the end and they went out on a song that sums up their personalities as well as their careers!! Just excellent! I was so glad no one told you in the comments after the album listen that Alex wrote and plays the piano part for the live show! I wanted you to be surprised! (I don’t know who plays it on the album) that was one of your favorite parts of the song! Enjoyed it! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
That's what I love about them... they come out with different things you don't expect. The album was all over the place in terms of styles and tones. Now you have me wondering if Alex did the keyboard on the studio album!
I don't know if you recall, but when you listened to the studio version, you remarked that the keyboard solo didn't sound like anything Geddy had ever played. Good call, it would seem.
Can’t watch or listen to this song without getting emotional…kills me all the people I’ve lost since my dad when I was 26 and now at 54 it gets worse and more frequent by the month.🤷♂️🤘🖖✌️🥁🎸🎹🎤🎻
I knew, the day I heard it for the first time, they were done. It is a beautiful song and the message was a great capstone to their career. Little did I think that there would only be be the Clockwork Angels and R40 tour, and that would be the end. From my first show seeing the Signals tour to the end I was lucky enough to see them 45+ times in 5 countries. Their music is the soundtrack of my life.
It is the most gut-wrenching song for any parent and then for that parent to look at their own (hopefully good) upbringing and thinking of how their parents see their own child/children. I can't sing the song because i can't even listen to it withiut crying. I think of my children and of rhe mother i lost 19 years ago and of Neil's daughter, Olivia. I just get wrecked. Absolutely the most emotional song i have ever heard. Period.
From Tears to this last ever song and yes like the song tears on 2112 it does what is says on the tin. Not to sadden the moment but this is being played when i you know what, nothing else come close
The piano on the studio version is played by Canadian musician Jason Sniderman. Not sure why Alex plays it live and not Geddy since there is no bass during that part. But it is nice to see Alex at the keyboard. Beautiful live version!
Have you gone back to your first reaction to this version? Very different reaction from you this time. I think going through their albums and now hearing this again probably helps you understand why we were all saying how impactful and emotional this was for us long time fans. It really is a very different song from them. And while it was not known at the time, I think this has to be one of the best ever final songs from any band. As for Alex on piano, Jason Sniderman who is a friend of Geddy played that on the album using a Steinway piano but it was based on something Alex composed. At least that is what I read. Nice to see Alex play it on stage though.
As you're coming to the end of Rush you're going to make sure you get everything Neil did you'll have to do the Vertical Horizon songs that he was apart of. Start with 'Instamatic' from Echoes From The Underground
When I saw this live, I was so blown away how beautiful this song is. Alex playing the keys made me cry. What a way to end their incredible career. Justin, I'm happy you think this song is incredible. Can't wait for Dreamline great energy.
OMG. That's the connection - taken as a whole, Grace Under Pressure was both an unexpected direction and has the "not Rush-like" Red Lenses... (and to a lesser extent Body Electric imo), and this is probably why it's another Grace Under Pressure for me... the atmospheric intros to BU2B and Angels, the return to "Wayward Son" style multiple parts in Caravan and Headlong... the ballad-ish Wreckers, and the simple slow Garden... For me, it's always going to be the next Grace Under Pressure...
I don't know. I just don't know. I know I'm biased, but I just don't understand those that dislike this band and also feel bad for the millions that don't know them. I can honestly say I can't think of another band in history that compares (I'll give a nod to The Beatles just for the music they put out in such a short span, and the mark they left on the music world). But it's just so much more with Rush. I mean, special in every way
Whether you choose to experience it privately or publicly, here's the TH-cam link to the entire Clockwork Angels Tour stop in Dallas: th-cam.com/video/j70EXQr6cYE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f4Gsytq46chXmIUb It really is best when taken in as a whole.…
Neil must have done a count-in that both Geddy and the orchestra could hear. Love the video they created for this song. I still don't adore it quite as much as most other Rush fans, although it is a grower (pardon the pun.)
Looking back to the fact that this is Neil's last song that he wrote it's the last song the band recorded on their last album and he is just quietly laying down a beat no crazy Neil Peart stuff it's almost very ominous and telling of like he knows his time is up
When you listened to the album version you made a point to say the piano sounded so un-Geddy like… I don’t actually know, but it’s a good, but it was Alex all along.
Alex has been more than just the guitar player throughout the years. His Taurus pedal work usually goes unnoticed and to me, that is what makes him a top of the rung guitar player. That takes talent to achieve as a musician. His billboard rating in the top one hundred guitar players position is a joke!
I don't actually really like the song, despite the obvious sentiment. Maybe I just don't like good bye's, but this song really feels forced (as does most modern Rush tunes, unfortunately) like "damn it, this emotional!". The set/lighting for this tune live was very memorable though.
almost as good as The Police finishing their original recording career with Murder by Numbers, which was also unlike anything else they had ever written
I'm so used to his cutting singing that he could do earlier that listening to this stage of his career is very difficult. His little swoops and meanders around the starts of some notes just grates on my ears like a swarm of mosquitoes. Musically, with a more limited range I don't think he's being as creative as he was before and that is what I sorely miss in his vocal melodies. When he sings the slower sections in some of his phrasing his voice is great, but when he goes through more difficult parts of phrases I'm out of the song and being too picky about his voice again. I think a more later stage Rush fan would not be as jarred by this as I am. Oh well. It wasn't a horrible song to me, but not a high point for me either.
Such a beautiful song and live performance...
Even now, after countless repeats, it still brings tears to my eyes 🤷🏼♂️
Aye 😢
It's just beautiful, not much more can be said about this exceptional song and so beautifully performed. It always brings a tear to my eye. Thank you Neil and thank you Rush.
I agree
This song always reminds me of this quote from "Beyond the Lighted Stage"...
Jack Black : "Rush is just one of those bands that has a deep reservoir of rocket sauce. A lot of bands - they've only got so much in the bottle. They use it up sometimes in one song. These guys were the real deal. Their bottle was so big and so filled to the brim, they were shaking it literally for decades. And still there was sauce coming out."
Like you said this song is different than what you would expect from them yet after a career of 40 years they are still creative and motivated enough to deliver this to their fans.
Good job Alex!
Beautiful song that always moves me when I hear it. Masterpiece.
Every note/timing, of that guitar solo, is perfect. Listen to it alone.
This song is amazingly beautiful on the album but this version is absolutely the best one to listen to, it’s the perfect final song in their catalog.😢
Maybe the best song Neil ever wrote
My mom is currently in hospice care and this brought tears to my eyes as I think about her final days. The hours tick away, the cells tick away.......Very powerful and emotional. 😩
I lost my mom and my brother - he's the one who introduced me to Rush - to cancer, so The Garden has always been very emotional for me; today, I was closing the sale on the house in which I've lived my entire life, and seeing this performance with the string ensemble has left me crying my eyes out. It's a beautifully moving tribute to three lives that have touched mine, that were taken far too soon. May they rest in peace, knowing that their gardens are being well looked after.
Neil Peart R.I.P 🥁 🥁 🐐 🐐
Yep!
If one was to write the last song on the last album of a career which has spanned 4 decades, this would be it!
It's a beautiful piece and yes, it almost doesn't sound like Rush, but it's a perfect bow on the 40+ year gift.
Justin,
Thank you for sharing and taking us all on this wonderful ride.
I hope you are fine after the hurricane.
Take care (and don't be harsh)! 😉
Great song! Definitely one of Neil’s finest lyrical efforts! The strings set the mood!
A beautiful epitaph to an extraordinary career.
Beautiful song! 💖💖💖
Geddy's emotional voices, Alex's piano piece and his solo are both so heartfelt.
The strings add such a perfect touch.
❤
One of my favorite songs from them. My daughter (23) passed away in '22 from cancer. This song hits home and brings a tear to my eye everytime I hear it. It's almost seems like Neil wrote it for her.
What a beautiful simple song to close out their discography. A perfect FU to anyone who thinks Rush is just this or just that. That's what really elevates this album in the rankings. FYI, Alex plays the keys on Time Stand Still and Superconductor, too.
Alex wrote the piano part and demo'd it but for recording they got their friend Jason Sniderman to play it on a Steinway grand piano (Jason also played piano on the Presto album).
This is an amazing song by them. There’s so much meaning in the lyrics and the music is so good. It goes on the list as one of the best ever for me.
Such a transcendent piece of music, possibly their pièce de résistance. Any band would give anything to have something like that be their final song. The strings really put this song over the top, especially live. Goddamn, I'm actually proud to have worshipped this band most of my life. They enriched my existence beyond measure.
Alex’s solo sounds so emotively organic. It comes in just perfectly, the tone is amazing and the elasticity in the climax is sublime. You can hear the emotion in Geddy’s vocals too. The sparse piano? Chefs kiss and the lyrics are as good of a credo for a life as you could wish. Concert Graphics, string section, Neil’s restraint, blah blah blah, you get the idea.
Yep Yep and Yep. Agreed completely. Amazing song, amazing lyrics. Outstanding performance. Yes he did play it on the record and read somewhere the guitar solo was done in one take. Top five fave songs from them,
😎😎🧡🧡. Loved seeing this live - my last Rush concert.
There's a long way indeed between "Live for yourself/There's no one more worth living for" and "A measure of a life/Is a measure of love and respect." The man lived and evolved.
It's actually quite possible to do both and even at the same time...
What song is the first lyric from?
@@terminallumbago6465 Anthem
In the first one he was echoing the philosophy of Ayn Rand. In the second, he was setting out the definition of his own, much deeper and profound philosophy on the world.
The first lyric is from Anthem
They ended with a new benchmark, musically and lyrically. That's going out in style.
Beautiful song. Alex wrote the piano part but Jason Sniderman plays the piano on the studio recording.
As you said, The Garden is unlike any song they've ever written. Tai Shan, too, is unlike any song they've ever written. The difference being that The Garden doesn't sound like it belongs in a Disney movie. It was something to hear this live with a string section. Extremely powerful.
Jason Sniderman plays the piano part on the record (edit: I guess someone else already posted this). I really like how Alex goes from the piano part into his guitar solo. Probably my favorite section of the song.
This is the one Rush song that is still tough to hear with dry eyes. One of my faves on CWA .. the cells tick away.. RIP NP
Just a beautiful performance! Beautiful song! I think Neil knew this was the end and they went out on a song that sums up their personalities as well as their careers!! Just excellent! I was so glad no one told you in the comments after the album listen that Alex wrote and plays the piano part for the live show! I wanted you to be surprised! (I don’t know who plays it on the album) that was one of your favorite parts of the song! Enjoyed it! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
Alex not only played the piano part on the album, he wrote it and Geddy was totally stoked and said they should keep it. It’s your part! You play it!
Theorem: a person is a Rush fan if and only if they get emotional when this song is played.
That's what I love about them... they come out with different things you don't expect. The album was all over the place in terms of styles and tones. Now you have me wondering if Alex did the keyboard on the studio album!
The fact that this is their last song on their last album, makes it that much more special.
I don't know if you recall, but when you listened to the studio version, you remarked that the keyboard solo didn't sound like anything Geddy had ever played. Good call, it would seem.
No fake mic's...good job Alex...yeah the piano part too and yeah that solo...not too shabby👑 Lerxst getting it done!!!🤘
Can’t watch or listen to this song without getting emotional…kills me all the people I’ve lost since my dad when I was 26 and now at 54 it gets worse and more frequent by the month.🤷♂️🤘🖖✌️🥁🎸🎹🎤🎻
I knew, the day I heard it for the first time, they were done. It is a beautiful song and the message was a great capstone to their career. Little did I think that there would only be be the Clockwork Angels and R40 tour, and that would be the end. From my first show seeing the Signals tour to the end I was lucky enough to see them 45+ times in 5 countries. Their music is the soundtrack of my life.
Neil finally got to try Charlie Watts part!
The line about 'earlier, funnier songs' is from a Woody Allen film. Ged's a big fan - so am I.
It is the most gut-wrenching song for any parent and then for that parent to look at their own (hopefully good) upbringing and thinking of how their parents see their own child/children. I can't sing the song because i can't even listen to it withiut crying. I think of my children and of rhe mother i lost 19 years ago and of Neil's daughter, Olivia. I just get wrecked. Absolutely the most emotional song i have ever heard. Period.
From Tears to this last ever song and yes like the song tears on 2112 it does what is says on the tin. Not to sadden the moment but this is being played when i you know what, nothing else come close
The piano on the studio version is played by Canadian musician Jason Sniderman. Not sure why Alex plays it live and not Geddy since there is no bass during that part. But it is nice to see Alex at the keyboard. Beautiful live version!
Alex wrote the part and played it on the demo version
This is how you say good bye
Have you gone back to your first reaction to this version? Very different reaction from you this time. I think going through their albums and now hearing this again probably helps you understand why we were all saying how impactful and emotional this was for us long time fans. It really is a very different song from them. And while it was not known at the time, I think this has to be one of the best ever final songs from any band.
As for Alex on piano, Jason Sniderman who is a friend of Geddy played that on the album using a Steinway piano but it was based on something Alex composed. At least that is what I read. Nice to see Alex play it on stage though.
Not a Rush(tm) song but the perfect rolling credits theme for a fairy-tale Rock career. ❤🇨🇦
As you're coming to the end of Rush you're going to make sure you get everything Neil did you'll have to do the Vertical Horizon songs that he was apart of. Start with 'Instamatic' from Echoes From The Underground
When I saw this live, I was so blown away how beautiful this song is. Alex playing the keys made me cry. What a way to end their incredible career. Justin, I'm happy you think this song is incredible. Can't wait for Dreamline great energy.
OMG. That's the connection - taken as a whole, Grace Under Pressure was both an unexpected direction and has the "not Rush-like" Red Lenses... (and to a lesser extent Body Electric imo), and this is probably why it's another Grace Under Pressure for me... the atmospheric intros to BU2B and Angels, the return to "Wayward Son" style multiple parts in Caravan and Headlong... the ballad-ish Wreckers, and the simple slow Garden... For me, it's always going to be the next Grace Under Pressure...
I don't know. I just don't know. I know I'm biased, but I just don't understand those that dislike this band and also feel bad for the millions that don't know them. I can honestly say I can't think of another band in history that compares (I'll give a nod to The Beatles just for the music they put out in such a short span, and the mark they left on the music world). But it's just so much more with Rush. I mean, special in every way
Whether you choose to experience it privately or publicly, here's the TH-cam link to the entire Clockwork Angels Tour stop in Dallas: th-cam.com/video/j70EXQr6cYE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f4Gsytq46chXmIUb It really is best when taken in as a whole.…
Sometimes the least Rush Like Songs on First Listen end up being the most Rush Like Long Term.
Neil must have done a count-in that both Geddy and the orchestra could hear. Love the video they created for this song. I still don't adore it quite as much as most other Rush fans, although it is a grower (pardon the pun.)
Losing It is a little similar.
Looking back to the fact that this is Neil's last song that he wrote it's the last song the band recorded on their last album and he is just quietly laying down a beat no crazy Neil Peart stuff it's almost very ominous and telling of like he knows his time is up
When you listened to the album version you made a point to say the piano sounded so un-Geddy like… I don’t actually know, but it’s a good, but it was Alex all along.
Alex has been more than just the guitar player throughout the years. His Taurus pedal work usually goes unnoticed and to me, that is what makes him a top of the rung guitar player. That takes talent to achieve as a musician. His billboard rating in the top one hundred guitar players position is a joke!
Show me a person saying "they don't get me in the feels" I show you a weirdo!
I don't actually really like the song, despite the obvious sentiment. Maybe I just don't like good bye's, but this song really feels forced (as does most modern Rush tunes, unfortunately) like "damn it, this emotional!". The set/lighting for this tune live was very memorable though.
almost as good as The Police finishing their original recording career with Murder by Numbers, which was also unlike anything else they had ever written
I love tons of rush but sadly at this point Getty just couldn't sing anymore and the songs were mediocre at best
I'm so used to his cutting singing that he could do earlier that listening to this stage of his career is very difficult. His little swoops and meanders around the starts of some notes just grates on my ears like a swarm of mosquitoes. Musically, with a more limited range I don't think he's being as creative as he was before and that is what I sorely miss in his vocal melodies. When he sings the slower sections in some of his phrasing his voice is great, but when he goes through more difficult parts of phrases I'm out of the song and being too picky about his voice again. I think a more later stage Rush fan would not be as jarred by this as I am. Oh well. It wasn't a horrible song to me, but not a high point for me either.
@@obiwanbenobi4943Age takes its toll on everybody. Nobody can do at 60 what they could at 25.
@@terminallumbago6465 So true. I'm there and I know it.
I love love rush so much but Clockwork album sucks. songs are not memorable. last good album was Test for Echo