What is the song “Anagram (for Mongo)” about?
“It doesn’t really say one thing; it says a bunch of little things, and I think that’s OK as long as it sounds good. You know, as long as it rolls off the tongue kind of thing? So I think different songs are different exercises, to a degree, and I think that if they feel like exercises, then there’s something wrong with the song. But if they can slip by in a kind of cohesive and fluid way, or if the effect is to be disjoint, and sometimes that’s what you’re after. Sometimes you want it to be jarring and disjointed and nonsensical. I think it depends on what you’re trying to do, and whether you’ve achieved it in your mind, and whether it actually worked, and ‘Anagram,’ I think, did work, even though it’s a game – the whole song is a game. The choruses are quite smooth and quite interesting, and they have a nice sound to them and they kind of mock the whole song itself, so I think it was effective there.” – Geddy Lee, on the Rush – Profiled!
