Rush 2112: The Priest of the Federal Bureaucracy

It’s hard to believe that Rush 2112 album will be 40 in the year 2016.  I’ll never forget the first time I heard it.  I was a kid listening to an 8 track tape through headphones.  It was mind blowing.

Reflecting upon the songs and our current political situation, one can see the parallels between the Priest of the Temple of Syrinx and their dystopian totalitarianism and our current federal government.  Liberals have adopted the federal bureaucracy as their God. The bureaucrat as their priest. And Washington D.C. is their temple.   And the rest of us, well, we’ll just be taken care of:

We've taken care of everything 
The words you hear, the songs you sing 
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes 
It's one for all and all for one 
We work together, common sons 
Never need to wonder how or why 

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls 
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
All the gifts of life are held within these walls 

Look around at this world we've made 
Equality our stock in trade 
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man 
Oh, what a nice, contented world 
Let the banners be unfurled 
Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand 

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls 
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
All the gifts of life are held within these walls