Distant Early Warning

‎[1984]‎
Album “Grace Under Pressure”‎

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‎“The main theme of the song is a series of things, but that's certainly one of the idea[s], and living ‎in the, living in the modern world basically in all of its manifestations in terms of the distance from ‎us of uh, the threat of superpowers and the, uh, the nuclear annihilation and all of that stuff, and ‎these giant missiles pointed at each other across the ocean. There's all of that, but that tends to have ‎a little bit of distance from people's lives, but at the same time I think it is omnipresent, you know, I ‎think that threat does loom somewhere in everyone's subconscious, perhaps. And then it deals with ‎the closer things in terms of relationships and how to keep a relationship in such a swift-moving ‎world, and it has something to do with our particular lives, dealing with revolving doors, going in ‎and out, but also I think that's generally true with people in the modern world where, uh, things for ‎a lot of people are very difficult, and consequently, work and the mundane concerns of life tend to ‎take precedence over the important values of relationships and of the larger world and the world of ‎the abstract as opposed to the concrete, and dealing with all of those things with grace. [more of the ‎song is played] And when I see a little bit of grace in someone's life. like when you drive past a ‎horrible tenement building and you see these wonderful pink flamingos on the balcony up there, or ‎something like, some little aspect of humanity that strikes you as a beautiful resistance if you like.”‎
‎(Da un’intervista del ‎‎1984 a Neil Peart all’interno del programma radiofonico “Innerview” condotto da Jim Ladd)‎