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Well, the only RUSH guitarist I know of is some "Lifeson" guy; *I've* never
actually played for the band, anyway. :)  I started working this song out
long ago and never finished it; none of the people I was jamming with at the
time liked Rush. 

    EADGBE
    xo
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Ryan Average	#1 by Ryan Jones at May 17, 2000 at 3:03 AM EST
	one of their first songs that was really heavy on the synths. i heard somewhere it is about pollution, but i think it is after reading the lyrics. man if they were worried about that back in '84, just think of what it is like now, 20 years later.

No Picture Trevor Average	#2 by Trevor fun with drugs at Mar 29, 2001 at 10:28 PM EST
	Great song, interesting video.

No Picture Alexander Wanna Be	#3 by Alexander Taule at Aug 6, 2006 at 2:27 PM EST
	tommythecat42 - EXCELLENT synopsis! BTW - Geddy Lee has said that he only through in the name Absalom at the end only because "it sounded cool and it fit". LOL Anyways.... I used to wonder what the meaning of this song was. That is until I dug into it a bit more. But first I’d like to point out Rush’s tendency to write intelligent, social commentary within their songs (i.e The Manhatten Project). Excerpt from http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Distant+Early+Warn ing “The Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) was a system of radar stations in the Canadian high Arctic with additional stations along the north coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska and on the Greenland ice pack and in Iceland. It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers and missiles during the Cold War a task for which it quickly became outdated with the move to ICBMs as the main delivery system for nuclear weapons. Controversy developed between the United States and Canada over the cleanup of the DEW Line sites, however. The stations had produced large amounts of waste that had been abandoned in the high Arctic. Especially damaging were the large quantities of PCBs. The United States insisted that it was Canada's responsibility to pay the hundred of millions in dollars of necessary cleanup, the Canadian government disagreed. In 1996 an agreement was reached that saw the Americans contribute $100 million to the estimated $300 million cleanup effort.” The verse which says “I see the tip of the iceberg and I worry about you” makes much more sense to me now. I suppose from one of the DEW stations you probably could see icebergs, and still be worried about incoming Nukes. And the verse that says “no swimming in the heavy water no singing in the acid rain may very well be a reference to the PCB’s the article cites were left behind at the DEW stations.