Open Secrets
by Rush

Album: Hold Your Fire (1987)
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  • It went right by me
    At the time it went over my head
    I was looking out the window
    I should have looked
    At your face instead

    It went right by me
    Just another wall
    There should have been a moment
    When we let our barriers fall
    I never meant
    What you're thinking
    That is not what I meant at all

    Well I guess we all
    Have these feelings
    We can't leave unreconciled
    Some of them burned on our ceilings
    Some of them learned as a child

    The things that we're concealing
    Will never let us grow
    Time will do its healing
    You've got to let it go

    Closed for my protection
    Open to your scorn
    Between these two directions
    My heart is sometimes torn

    I lie awake with my secrets
    Spinning around my head
    Something that somehow
    Escaped me
    Something you shouldn't have said
    I was looking out the window
    I should have looked
    At your face instead

    I find no absolution
    In my rational point of view
    Maybe some things are instinctive
    But there's one thing you could do
    You could try to understand me
    I could try to understand you Writer/s: ALEX LIFESON, GEDDY LEE, NEIL ELWOOD PEART
    Publisher: Anthem Entertainment
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Comments: 3

  • Patrick from Bedford, Tx"Between these two directions my heart is sometimes torn." Write in anastrophe the lyricist does. Anastrophe does not clever writing make. Good guitar, good bass, good drums, sub-par synths, lyrics relitigating their opinion. General rule: anyone who calls their viewpoint rational is generally not. Oh, what's that line from the last stanza?

    First listen to a Rush album continues with Prime Mover.
  • John from Asheville, NcVery good song from an often-dismissed album. Love the bass line in the verses and Alex's crystaline accents. Dig this tune. Love the "find no absolution" bridge into Alex's tasty solo.
  • Jordan from Port Hope, CanadaThis song, "Open Secrets", means that we should let each other know about our feelings -- not keeping them inside ourselves -- thus to communicate better with each other.
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