Cover art for Halo Effect by Rush

Halo Effect

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Halo Effect Lyrics

[Verse 1]
What did I see?
Fool that I was
A goddess, with wings on her heels
All my illusions
Projected on her
The ideal, that I wanted to see

[Chorus]
What did I know?
Fool that I was
Little by little, I learned
My friends were dismayed
To see me betrayed
But they knew they could never tell me

[Verse 2]
What did I care?
Fool that I was
Little by little, I burned
Maybe sometimes
There might be a flaw
But how pretty the picture was back then

[Chorus]
What did I do?
The fool that I was
To profit from youthful mistakes?
It's shameful to tell
How often I fell
In love with delusions again

[Chorus]
What did I do?
The fool that I was
To profit from youthful mistakes?
So shameful to tell
Just how often I fell
In love with illusions again

[Outro]
A goddess with wings on her heels ...

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From the liner notes:
I HAD FALLEN HELPLESSLY IN LOVE with one of the performers. She was so different from “the girl I left behind,” and I was beginning to understand I had only pretended she was right for me. I pursued my beautiful acrobat obsessively until she let me be with her – then I suffered her rejection and contempt. Once again, I had created an ideal of the perfect soulmate, and tried to graft it onto her. It didn’t fit. Such illusions have colored my whole life.

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What did Rush say about "Halo Effect"?
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Geddy Lee:

“Halo Effect", was born definitely out of the lyric, it’s a beautiful lyric, one of the few that I didn’t change a whole lot! So, we cut Neil [Peart] some slack here as it’s just lovely the way he wrote it. We had done similar things like that in the past and we felt we needed a moment to catch your breath in the story and that’s why it began originally as completely an acoustic song but once Nick [Raskulinecz, Producer] came in he felt that the choruses, or what we were choosing to call the choruses, needed to separate themselves from the verses to give the song more dynamics and that’s why it needed to be a bit heavier. So an interesting experiment in the ways of light and shade.

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Release Date
June 8, 2012
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