| "The Larger Bowl" | ||||
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| Promotional single by Rush | ||||
| from the album Snakes & Arrows | ||||
| Released | June 25, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Lifeson/Lee/Peart | |||
| Producer(s) | Rush & Nick Raskulinecz | |||
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"The Larger Bowl" is the fourth track and third single from Rush's 2007 album Snakes & Arrows .
The lyrics were written by the drummer and primary lyricist Neil Peart. The title was inspired by a "dysentery dream" he had while touring West Africa on his bicycle in 1988. [1]
Peart's book The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa includes a chapter entitled "The Larger Bowl" in which he describes the dream. The excerpt in which he mentions the song is as follows:
Anyway... a song was playing in the store, a plaintive ballad called "The Larger Bowl." Something about loneliness and the misfortunes of life, I recall. No such song as far as I know, but I like the title. [2]
In the early 1990s, Peart put words to the title. [1] The song is written in the form of a pantoum.
Neil Ellwood Peart was a Canadian and American musician, known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. He was known to fans by the nickname 'The Professor', derived from the Gilligan's Island character of the same name. His drumming was renowned for its technical proficiency and his live performances for their exacting nature and stamina. Peart earned numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the Modern Drummer Readers Poll Hall of Fame in 1983 at the age of thirty, making him the youngest person ever so honoured.
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