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The Analog Kid

Rush
Track 2 on Signals 

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Sep. 9, 19821 viewer9.5K views

The Analog Kid Lyrics

[Verse 1]
A hot and windy August afternoon
Has the trees in constant motion
With a flash of silver leaves
As they're rocking in the breeze

The boy lies in the grass with one blade
Stuck between his teeth
A vague sensation quickens
In his young and restless heart

And a bright and nameless vision
Has him longing to depart

[Chorus]
You move me, you move me
With your buildings and your eyes
Autumn woods and winter skies
You move me, you move me
Open sea and city lights
Busy streets and dizzy heights
You call me, you call me

[Verse 2]
The fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs
Dances on the edge of his dream
And her voice rings in his ears
Like the music of the spheres
The boy lies in the grass, unmoving
Staring at the sky
His mother starts to call him
As a hawk goes soaring by

And the boy pulls down his baseball cap
And covers up his eyes

[Chorus]
You move me, you move me
With your buildings and your eyes
Autumn woods and winter skies
You move me, you move me
Open sea and city lights
Busy streets and dizzy heights
You call me, you call me

[Outro]
Too many hands on my time
Too many feelings
Too many things on my mind

When I leave I don't know
What I'm hoping to find
And when I leave I don't know
What I'm leaving behind
When I leave I don't know
What I'm hoping to find
And when I leave I don't know
What I'm leaving behind

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Genius Annotation

This song may be inspired by an Edgar Lee Masters poem called Jonathan Houghton. From the poem:
“And a boy lies in the grass
Near the feet of the old man,
And looks up at the sailing clouds,
And longs, and longs, and longs
For what, he knows not:”

From the song: “The boy lies in the grass, unmoving
Staring at the sky”
“When I leave I don’t know
What I’m hoping to find”

The poem ends with the now old boy returning to his old childhood home and finding it commercially developed and busy, and longing for the way it used to be. The song ends by hinting that the boy will someday desire what he’s leaving behind

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Credits
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Keyboards
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Recorded At
Le Studio, Morin Heights, QC, Canada
Release Date
September 9, 1982
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