Vital Signs

Unstable conditions

A symptom of life

In mental and environmental change

Atmospheric disturbance

The feverish flux

Of human interface and interchange

The impulse is pure

Sometimes our circuits get shorted

By external interference

Signals get crossed

And the balance distorted

By internal incoherence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter

Everybody need a mood lifter

Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings

About the function and the form

Everybody got to deviate from the norm

An ounce of perception

A pound of obscure

Process information at half speed

Pause, rewind, replay

Warm memory chip

Random sample, hold the one you need

Leave out the fiction

The fact is, this friction

Will only be worn by persistence

Leave out conditions

Courageous convictions

Will drag the dream into existence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter

Everybody need a soft filter

Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings

About the function and the form

Everybody got to elevate from the norm…” – Neil Peart, from the lyrics to the song Vital Signs on the album Moving Pictures (1981) by the band Rush