# Rush: Tom Sawyer **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 15, 2000, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653 "2000-12-15T00:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653/21 "2000-12-15T16:15:17Z")
I’m pretty certain ‘Afterimage’ is in 5/4 as well. But yumpin yiminy! Half the damn songs change time sigs about 5000 times! ---
**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653/22 "2000-12-15T16:41:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\*_Astro gets ready… crouched down…_ > > Geddy Lee’s voice always annoyed the **snot** outta me!!! > > _RUNS AWAY QUICKLY!!!_ \*\* Shouldn’t your nick be ‘astroGIRL14’ then? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653/23 "2000-12-15T17:12:23Z")
Getting back to the OP, if I may speculate a bit: Tom Sawyer (the character) was into fantasy adventures, so today’s Tom Sawyer is “a modern day warrior” in his imagination. When I was a kid I spent a lot of time by “thuuuu ri-ver” and it became my imaginary battlefield. I believe “the space he invades…” is a reference to video games (Space Invaders for you young’uns), and “he gets high on you” is pretty obvious (you can leave out the “on you”). Most of the lyrics are pretty vague, but that’s my interpretation. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653/24 "2000-12-15T17:38:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jesuslynch \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by AWB \* > > \*\*I have a question for you (or any other SDMB Rush fans). There’s a Rush song that didn’t get radio play (I don’t think) that was performed in [sup]5[/sup]/[sub]4[/sub] (or [sup]5[/sup]/[sub]8[/sub]) time. That is, there was a definate 3-beat/2-beat rhythm to it. (With a little one in the house, my wife doesn’t care for me playing through all my Rush CDs to find it.) Do you know of what song I’m thinking? \*\* > > Maybe _Circumstances_? \*\* Nope, although it does have its time changes that are hard to figure out. (It’s funny. Of the two Rush CDs I have at work, one was “Moving Pictures”, which was useful for the OP, and “Hemispheres”, which has Circumstatnces on it.) This song had a large section that was definately a 3-beat/2-beat. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653/25 "2000-12-16T03:22:55Z")
> [@](#): > > ## quote: > > Originally posted by Astroboy14 > Astro gets ready… crouched down… > > Geddy Lee’s voice always annoyed the snot outta me!!! > > ## RUNS AWAY QUICKLY!!! > > Shouldn’t your nick be ‘astroGIRL14’ then? 🙂 **muppetsoup** , if I _had_ a feminine side, I’d be home touching it right now!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653/26 "2001-01-09T22:35:28Z")
I only said that because it seems like its usually women who like Rush until they hear the voice. Nothing personal \ I suppose… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-tom-sawyer/45653.md?page=1)