Album: Hold Your Fire (1987)

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• When the waters rose
  In the darkness
  In the wake of the endless flood
  It flowed into our memory
  It flowed into our blood
  
  When something broke the surface
  Just to see the starry dome
  We still feel that relation
  When the water takes us home
  In the flying spray of the ocean
  The water takes you home
  
  Springing from the weight
  Of the mountains
  Like the heart of the earth
  Would burst
  Flowing out from marble fountains
  In the dreams of a desert thirst
  
  Something swam through
  The jungles
  Where the mighty rivers roam
  Something breaks the silence
  When the water takes you home
  I hear the wordless voices
  When the water takes me home
  
  Waves that crash on the shoreline
  Torrents of tropical rain
  Streaming down
  Beyond our memory
  Streaming down inside our veins
  
  When something left the ocean
  To crawl high above the foam
  We still feel that elation
  When the water takes us home
  In a driving rain of redemption
  The water takes me home Writer/s: ALEX ZIVOJINOVICH, GARY LEE WEINRIB, NEIL ELWOOD PEART
  Publisher: Anthem Entertainment
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Mike from FremontRush has dozens of albums, Patrick. They have actually abandoned Hold Your Fire. They aren't happy with it and don't expect to hear any of it's songs in their concerts (Which is a foregone conclusion now that they have retired I suppose but still). The band doesn't need to rearrange themselves to fit one disgruntled fan. They were doing things just fine to fill stadiums for more than forty years. If you weren't into them, don't listen.
• Patrick from Bedford, TxSo I'm having one of those days and I ask my roommate Danny what to relax with, and he says listen to Rush. I pick this album and expect great things, but now I'm just confused. I listened all the way through and wrote my thoughts here, but I can't understand all the hype. I'm thinking maybe the other two shouldn't let the drummer write the words. And, they should ditch the keyboard. Let the guitarist make the decisions as he usually seems to be doing the best job. Jeez, boys, I know that you're trying, but try harder. So... What album would be a good one to listen to? I'm thinking maybe Roll the Bones?
• Johnny from Pomona, CaThanks! I always get Rush and Merrilee Rush confused...their music is so similar! ;)
• Brendan from Easton, CtI knew I had to get this album when I heard Tai Shan, howver, I was never expecting what I heard. High Water may well be the best song on the album, but it could be the worst. That's what's great about Hold Your Fire, no one song is better than the others, and no song defines it. It's one of those rare albums, like Hysteria, Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall, that's an ALBUM, not a couple songs mixed in with B-sides. I love to listen to this song and imagine myself laying next to a stream, or swimming in the middle of the ocean on a clear sunset.
• John from Asheville, NcI used to be pretty apathetic, as I was to the majority of the Hold Your Fire CD...but I've grown to really like this album a lot (!) and High Water...while still nothing brilliant...has a great sentiment and melody to it. The dynamic in the chorus is what sells it, moreso than the verses. That sustained chord and the melody beneath it works well.
• Dave from Cardiff, Wales"When something left the ocean
  To crawl high above the foam --
  We still feel that elation
  When the water takes us home
  In a driving rain of redemption
  The water takes me home..."
  Fantastic lyric!
• Dave from Cardiff, WalesNeither should this Rush be confused with Jennifer Rush... What on earth are her and Merrillee Rush doing in the Rush list??
• Jesse from L.a., CaAnd a good one, at that!
• Jeff from Haltom City, TxThis Canadian trio should not be confused with Merrilee Rush; this Rush is a band.

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