OUR TRIBUTE TO NEIL PEART

BEANEATH, BETWEEN AND BEHIND

RUSH cover tune

As a permannent tribute to Rush drummer, percussionist and lyricist Neil Peart, Elm Treason brings you a cover version of the song "Beneath, Between and Behind” from the album “Fly By Night” (1975).

This recording is a Bobby Steel tour de force. He handles all guitars, vocals and drums.

Damn impressive.

Andy lays down his best Geddy Lee bass line.

Neil has said that this song features the very first lyrics he ever wrote for the band.

In the most general terms, this song is about the disappointments of history and how the dreams of founding ancestors can be forgotten or ignored in the modern world.

lyrics

Ten score years ago
Defeat the kingly foe
A wondrous dream came into being
Tame the trackless waste
No virgin land left chaste
All shining eyes but never seeing

Beneath the noble bird
Between the proudest words
Behind the beauty, cracks appear
Once with heads held high
They sang out to the sky
Why do their shadows bow in fear

Watch the cities rise
Another ship arrives
Earth’s melting pot, and ever growing
Fantastic dreams come true
Inventing something new
The greatest minds, but never knowing

The guns replace the plow
Facades are tarnished now
The principles have been betrayed
The dream’s gone stale
But still let hope prevail
Hope that history’s debt won’t be repaid