It’s Canada Day so let’s give our neighbors up north a shout-out by featuring Rush.
To quote Neil Peart, this song “seems to encapsulate everything that we want Rush to represent.” The song is about dealing with the hypocrisy and finding your own truth, away from the demands of the establishment and the so-called “kings” who think that it is their place to tell others how to live their lives and what to believe.
Both the song and the music video are filled with imagery that harkens back to the Middle Ages, a reminder that hypocrites have always been there and they always will be but that the people will always find a way to be free.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 
I find this remarkable. Rush was a group that, as much as anybody, whipped up paranoia and encouraged people to follow draconian orders from The Establishment during the you-know-what earlier this decade. I find it impossible to take health advice from a band that did more lines than Fleetwood Mac. Unfortunately, rock music has long been about packaging faux rebellion and selling it to the public. Hypocrites have always been around, and the members of Rush don’t need to search far in order to find them.
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