Vital Signs

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Vital Signs by Rush

About Vital Signs

"Vital Signs" is a song by progressive rock trio Rush from their album Moving Pictures. The song is heavily influenced by reggae styles. This influence would carry on into their next studio album, Signals. The song was released as the final single from the album. It has appeared in Rush's set lists as current as that of Rush in Rio. A live version of "Vital Signs" appears as the B-side on their "New World Man" single; besides the band's self-released 1973 single of "Not Fade Away/Can't Fight It .

Vital Signs Lyrics

[00:22.99] Unstable condition, a symptom of life
[00:29.49] In mental and environmental change
[00:35.81] Atmospheric disturbance, the feverish flux
[00:42.73] Of human interface and interchange
[00:47.38]
[00:54.56] The impulse is pure
[00:56.96] Sometimes our circuits get shorted
[01:00.39] By external interference
[01:04.52] Signals get crossed
[01:07.68] And the balance distorted
[01:10.78] By internal incoherence
[01:15.97] A tired mind become a shapeshifter
[01:19.33] Everybody need a mood lifter
[01:23.24] Everybody need reverse polarity
[01:27.85] Everybody got mixed feelings
[01:31.38] About the function and the form
[01:34.56] Everybody got to deviate from the norm
[01:40.37]
[01:44.90] An ounce of perception, a pound of obscure
[01:51.88] Process information at half speed
[01:58.33] Pause, rewind, replay
[02:01.67] Warm memory chip
[02:05.10] Random sample, hold the one you need
[02:10.97]
[02:19.58] Leave out the fiction
[02:23.19] The fact is this friction
[02:26.21] Will only be worn by persistence
[02:29.87] Leave out conditions
[02:33.21] Courageous convictions
[02:35.66] Will drag this dream into existence
[02:41.25] A tired mind become a shapeshifter
[02:44.95] Everybody need a soft filter
[02:48.07] Everybody need reverse polarity
[02:53.17] Everybody got mixed feelings
[02:56.45] About the function and the form
[02:59.87] Everybody got to elevate from the norm
[03:05.71]
[03:20.78] Everybody got mixed feelings
[03:25.78]
[03:27.89] Everybody got mixed feelings
[03:34.34] Everybody got to deviate from the norm
[03:41.03] Everybody got to deviate from the norm
[03:47.58] Everybody got to elevate from the norm
[03:54.37] Everybody got to elevate from the norm
[04:01.12] Everybody got to elevate from the norm
[04:07.67] Everybody got to evelate from the norm
[04:14.62] Everybody got to escriminate from the norm
[04:21.16] Everybody got to elevate
[04:27.80] Everybody got to elevate from the norm
[04:34.37] Everybody got to deviate from the norm
[04:40.93] Everybody got to deviate from the norm
[04:45.17]

From the album: Moving Pictures (40th Anniversary)