The Pass (song)

"The Pass" is a song by the band Rush from their 1989 album Presto. The lyrics by drummer Neil Peart address youth suicide and the tendency to romanticize it. The single was a number five hit on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart and a video was made for the song.

The line "All of us get lost in the darkness/Dreamers learn to steer by the stars/All of us do time in the gutter/Dreamers turn to look at the cars" alludes to Oscar Wilde's "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" from his play Lady Windermere's Fan.

On the Rush in Rio DVD (2003), bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee introduces the song to the audience by saying it is one of the band's favourites. On the same DVD, in the documentary "The Boys in Brazil," 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."

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External links

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