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The Terminator (film) Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
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"The Pass" is a song by the band Rush from their 1989 album Presto. The song deals with suicide and its concomitant symptoms, especially among teens. It contains what is essentially an impassioned (but, admittedly, rational) plea for those "on the razor's edge" to weather the ultimate irrational situation: That of abject hopelessness, and the characteristics (and the commonality) of severe depression in teens, and ultimately suicidal ideation. Most of the song is spoken in a compassionate second-person (e.g. "Static on your frequency/Electrical storm in your veins") The narrator of the song implores of the allegorical "Martyr without a cause": "Don't turn your back and slam the door on me."
Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for the song, took a very careful, drawn look at teen suicide at the time of writing. He stated his goal as being not just a blind plea against teenage suicide, but a compassionate attempt to understand the motivations behind it. Neil ponders the unfortunate commonality that "Someone set a bad example/Made surrender seem alright/The act of a noble warrior/Who lost the will to fight".
Peart, as narrator, attempts to penetrate the damaged psyche of the seemingly hopeless individual, and, knowing that sympathy is not enough to change things, offers a quiet, empathic anthem that the victim/protagonist will hopefully use to fight for his life. Peart invokes a cleverly modified reference to a famous quote by Oscar Wilde: "All of us get lost in the darkness/Dreamers learn to steer by the stars".
Peart, a declared atheist with a Christian upbringing and a penchant for curiosity where faith is concerned (as well as a keen sense of wordplay), uses the double-meaning phrase "Christ, what have you done?", to punctuate the choruses. In doing so, he subtly both:
The song is a marked departure from the hard-driving, up-tempo, and chargedly optimistic paeans that characterize more "typical" Rush songs.