The Pass (song)
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| Single by Rush from the album Presto |
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| Released | 1990 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | June-August 1989 | ||||
| Genre | Progressive Rock | ||||
| Length | 4:51 | ||||
| Label | Atlantic Records | ||||
| Producer | Rupert Hine and Rush | ||||
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"The Pass" is a song by the band Rush from their 1989 album Presto. The song addresses the issue of suicide. The lyrics, like the majority of Rush's songs, are written by Drummer Neil Peart. The lyric "All of us do time in the gutter/Dreamers turn to look at the stars" references a line from Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan.
On the Rush in Rio DVD (2003), bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee introduces the performance of the song by announcing to the audience that the song is one of the band's favorites.
On the same DVD's documentary "The Boys in Brazil," Neil Peart says he always gets emotional while playing the song, "not only for what it expresses explicitly lyrically, but because it is one of our better crafted ones."[citation needed]
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