t-shirt memories

I've been thinking of this t-shirt I used to wear. It's a Rush tour shirt, among the few tour shirts I've ever bought. I liked it a lot, and when the printing started to show some damage, I boxed it up. I should have gotten it out and worn it to their last tour.





This was from the Roll the Bones album and tour, 1991. The theme of that album was...

"No matter what kind of song you choose to play, you’re betting your life on it, for good or ill, and what you believe is what you are ... No one can ever be sure, in this best of all possible random universes.

That's why the essence of these songs is: if there's a chance, you might as well take it. So what if some parts of life are a crap shoot? Get out there and shoot the crap. A random universe doesn't have to be futile; we can change the odds, load the dice, and roll again... - Neil Peart

And lyrics...

Why are we here?
Because we’re here.
Roll the bones
Why does it happen?
Because it happens.
Roll the bones

We come into the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That’s the way that lady luck dances
Roll the bones..

Wheel goes round, landing on a leap of fate
Life redirected in ways unexpected
Sometimes the odd number wins
The way the big wheel spins

I walked into class one evening, and the teacher said something about how her son wore shirts like that. "with dead things." Metallica and such. I started to explain that it wasn't about death, but about "rolling the bones" and taking a gamble on life. She replied, "yeah right."