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Old Posted Dec 12, 2012, 9:41 PM
MrOilers MrOilers is offline
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Here's a song that everyone on this forum should be able to relate to (the lyrics, anyway, if not the music itself). It's a song about feeling isolation, boredom, and conformity that teenagers go through in the suburbs. Plus the video was shot in Toronto:

http://youtu.be/Lu9Ycq64Gy4


Rush - "Subdivisions"

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone


Subdivisions --
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions --
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...


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