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2112 is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in April 1 1976 by Mercury Records. Following the disappointing sales of their previous albums Caress of Steel and Fly by Night, in which both albums failed to chart in the top half of the Billboard 200, 2112 became the band's first major commercial success.

The band was in financial hardship due to the disappointing sales of 1975's Caress of Steel, which also got an unfavourable critical reception and a decline in attendance at its shows. Mercury, their international label, considered dropping them but granted one more album following negotiations with manager Ray Danniels. Rush were pressured to deliver more commercial material but decided to continue developing its progressive rock direction they had explored on Caress of Steel and made the 20-minute futuristic science-fiction title track occupy side one of 2112 with a collection of shorter songs on side two that display their hard rock roots.




Geddy Lee – vocals, bass
Alex Lifeson – guitar
Neil Peart – drums, percussion
Additional musician
Hugh Syme – ARP Odyssey synthesizer on "2112",[24] Mellotron[21] on "Tears"




00:00 01 2112
00:00 I Overture
04:32 II The Temples Of Syrinx
06:43 III Discovery
10:11 IV Presentation
13:53 V Oracle: The Dream
15:52 VI Soliloquy
18:11 VII Grand Finale

20:26 02 A Passage To Bangkok
24:00 03 The Twilight Zone
27:17 04 Lessons
31:07 05 Tears
34:38 06 Something For Nothing


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00:09To be continued...
11:20We're right back.
14:36We're right back.
23:06We're on the train to Bangkok
23:11Aboard the Thailand Express
23:15We'll hit the stops along the way
23:20We only stop for the best
23:25Just run the train to Bangkok
23:31Aboard the Thailand Express
23:34We'll hit the stops along the way
23:39We only stop for the best
24:11We'll hit the stops along the way
24:15We'll hit the stops along the way
24:19Beneath his hand the strangest lies
24:23Take it up he's got three eyes
24:28Truth is false and love gets lost
24:32Now the fourth dimension is crossed
24:46You have entered the twilight zone
24:51Beyond this world strange things are known
24:55Use the key and lock the door
24:59See what your fate might have in store
25:03Come explore your dreams creation
25:07Enter this world of imagination
25:23You wake up lost in an empty town
25:28Wondering why no one else in the world
25:32Look up to see a giant boy
25:36Just be coming for a new toy
25:41No escape, no place to hide
25:44Here we're selling that space for life
26:00You have entered the twilight zone
26:04I've entered the twilight zone
26:05Beyond this world strange things are known
26:08Use the key and lock the door
26:12See what your fate might have in store
26:16Come explore your dreams creation
26:20Enter this world of imagination
26:24Come explore your dreams creation
26:46Go the way you'reuju
27:40To be continued...
28:01To be continued...
28:11My goal is more than the thought
28:16I'll be there
28:20When I teach
28:21What I've been taught
28:23And I've been taught
28:25You know we've told you before
28:30But you didn't hear us live
28:33So you still question why
28:37No, you didn't listen again
28:43You didn't listen again
28:58Sweet memories
29:01I never thought it would be like this
29:07Reminded me
29:10Oh, just that close I came to missing
29:15I know that
29:19This is the way for me to go
29:23You'll be there
29:27When you know
29:29Well, I know
29:31And I know
29:33You know we've told you before
29:37But you've just been lost there
29:40So you still question why
29:45No, you didn't listen again
29:59You didn't listen again
30:02Oh, you didn't listen again
30:40guitar solo
31:18All of the seasons and all of the days
31:24All of the reasons why I felt this way
31:32So long
31:35So long
31:41Then lost in that feeling I looked in your eyes
31:48I noticed emotion and that you had cried
31:53For me
31:59I can see
32:06What would touch me deeper?
32:12T'is a compromise that only cry
32:18Would it touch you deeper?
32:24And tears that warm the miles
32:30That know me
32:56A lifetime of questions
33:00Tears on your cheek
33:02I tasted the answers
33:05And my body was weak
33:08Were you
33:14The truth
33:21What would touch me deeper?
33:26Tears that fall from eyes
33:31That only cry
33:34Would it touch you deeper?
33:38And tears that fall from eyes
33:46That's the way
33:51To be
33:51To be
33:51To be
33:52To be
34:11To be
34:12To be
34:12To be
34:13To be
34:15To be
34:27To be
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