I was always wary of the fact that Rush had drawn far too deeply from Ayn Rand, but I did always admire their amazing music, and also their wonderful lyrical insights.
I have a special place in my heart for their album Roll the Bones, perhaps just because it came at a certain time. I was beginning to understand that love was not only a matter of condition or fate, but also a matter of choice and deliberate commitment.
This is a beautiful song, and the lyrics can help me reflect upon the nature of will and circumstance.
Rush, "Ghost of a Chance", from Roll the Bones (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLTFbtOfmxk
Like a million little doorways
All the choices we made
All the stages we passed through
All the roles we played
For so many different directions
Our separate paths might have turned
With every door that we opened
Every bridge that we burned
Somehow we find each other
Through all that masquerade
Somehow we found each other
Somehow we have stayed
In a state of grace
I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last...
Like a million little crossroads
Through the back streets of youth
Each time we turn a new corner
A tiny moment of truth
For so many different connections
Our separate paths might have made
With every door that we opened
Every game we played
Somehow we find each other
Through all that masquerade
Somehow we found each other
Somehow we have stayed
In a state of grace
I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last...
Written in 1/2001
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