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Originally Posted by khfreek
I know that 2112 is based off of a book by Ayn Rand, but The Trees was just a song written about a cartoon where trees are like people, Neil Peart just wrote lyrics for it.
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I know that Peart has been quoted as saying ""No. It was just a flash. I was working on an entirely different thing when I saw a cartoon picture of these trees carrying on like fools. I thought, "What if trees acted like people?" So I saw it as a cartoon really, and wrote it that way. I think that's the image that it conjures up to a listener or a reader. A very simple statement."
Neil Peart, in the April/May 1980 Modern Drummer magazine so yes you are correct but there is also plenty on the WWW that discusses the philosophy behind the lyrics.
Put "The Trees Rush Ayn Rand" into google and it makes for interesting links if you are interested.