After reading the lyric sheet, especially to side 1, I had to laugh. This isn't comedy is it ? After the dopey, much too long instrumental, the 'story' starts like a bad sci-fi movie & goes downhill from there. It meanders like crazy, all too apparently trying to burn up time. Our "hero" is a puss, who dreams & cries, cries & dreams some more, wah wah wah. Supposedly, he kills himself because the bad guys win. Life sucks now in a world with no freedom nor imagination. Rush are like the bad guys, they have no imagination.The singer sounds like a girl, the guitar player can only play atonal solos completely lacking any musicality & the drumming exists, nothing more.I heard Rush was called the thinking man's band. That's true if you think that gazing at your navel lint can lead to a profound experience.