THE WEAPON
andDIGITAL MAN
from the albumSIGNALS
Single Released: October 1982
LINER NOTES
The Weapon
Digital Man
Copyright © – Core Music Publishing
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Cat Productions Ltd.
Lacquer Cut At – The Lacquer Channel Limited
Arranged By – Rush, Terry Brown
Composed By – Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee
Lyrics By – Neil Peart
Engineer – Paul Northfield
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Mixed By – Paul Northfield
Producer – Rush, Terry Brown
FOR RADIO ONLY
From the album Signals
Introduction by Count Floyd courtesy of RCA records and SCTV.
TRACK LISTING
Side A. The Weapon (4:18)
Side B. Digital Man (6:32)
The Weapon
(Part II of Fear)
Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Neil Peart
We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself?
Not pain or failure, not fatal tragedy?
Not the faulty units in this mad machinery?
Not the broken contacts in emotional chemistry?
With an iron fist in a velvet glove
We are sheltered under the gun
In the glory game on the power train
Thy kingdom's will be done
And the things that we fear
Are a weapon to be held against us...
He's not afraid of your judgement
He knows of horrors worse than your Hell
He's a little bit afraid of dying --
But he's a lot more afraid of your lying
And the things that he fears
Are a weapon to be held against him...
Can any part of life -- be larger than life?
Even love must be limited by time
And those who push us down that they might climb --
Is any killer worth more than his crime?
Like a steely blade in a silken sheath
We don't see what they're made of
They shout about love, but when push comes to shove
They live for the things they're afraid of
And the knowledge that they fear
Is a weapon to be used against them...
Digital Man
Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Neil Peart
His world is under observation --
We monitor his station
Under faces and the places
Where he traces points of view
He picks up scraps of conversation --
Radio and radiation
From the dancers and romancers
With the answers -- but no clue
He'd love to spend the night in Zion
He's been a long while in Babylon
He'd like a lover's wings to fly on
To a tropic isle of Avalon
His world is under anaesthetic --
Subdivided and synthetic
His reliance on the giants
In the science of the day
He picks up scraps of information --
He's adept at adaptation
'Cause for strangers and arrangers
Constant change is here to stay
He's got a force field and a flexible plan
He's got a date with fate in a black sedan
He plays fast forward for as long as he can
But he won't need a bed --
He's a digital man
Conceptualized Cover
Vinyl Side 1
Vinyl Side 2
