The Pass (song)

Infobox Single
Name = The Pass


Artist = Rush
from Album = Presto
Released = 1990
Format = CD
Recorded = June-August 1989
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 4:51
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = Rupert Hine and Rush
Chart position =

#5 (Modern Rock Tracks)

Last single = "Show Don't Tell" (1989)
This single = "The Pass" (1990)
Next single = "Superconductor" (1991)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Presto
Type = studio
prev_track = "Chain Lightning"
prev_no = Track 2
this_track = "The Pass"
track_no = Track 3
next_track = "War Paint"
next_no = Track 4

"The Pass" is a song by the band Rush from their 1989 album Presto. The song addresses the issue of suicide. The lyrics, like the majority of Rush's songs, are written by Drummer Neil Peart. The lyric "All of us get lost in the darkness/Dreamers learn to steer by the stars/All of us do time in the gutter/Dreamers turn to look at the cars" references a line from Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan.

On the Rush in Rio DVD (2003), bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee introduces the performance of the song by announcing to the audience that the song is one of the band's favorites.

On the same DVD's documentary "The Boys in Brazil," Neil Peart says he always gets emotional while playing the song, "not only for what it expresses explicitly lyrically, but because it is one of our better crafted ones."Fact|date=March 2007