By Gil Moore, Mike Levine and Rik Emmett
(Triumph)
1984,
Canada
Here’s a
straight-up celebration of rock and
irresponsibility anthem if there ever was one. It sucked in the masses,
myself included. This was my favourite
song ever for about a year through early high school, which is the last
place one should be when you’re following your heart (into the depths of
despair). Love was unfathomably cruel at that age and none of the absurdities
of high school culture were remotely a comfort. Where was Ferris Bueller when I
needed him? Oh well! Live and not-really learn…
The lyrics
extol the virtues of living for the
moment and doing what you feel like.
They propose to unify the concept of following
your dreams with forgetting about
tomorrow. Okay, so we’re
talking about extremely short-term dreams I suppose. Look, I never cared about
the lyrics, okay! I relished the soaring melody.
Peak: #35, Canada pop chart
The official
music video was filmed at
the Providence Civic Center in Rhode Island following a live concert where the
audience was invited to stick around and participate:
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