The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)

"The Larger Bowl"
Promotional single by Rush
from the album Snakes & Arrows
Released	June 25, 2007
Genre	Progressive rock, hard rock
Length	4:07
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Lifeson/Lee/Peart
Producer(s)	Rush & Nick Raskulinecz
Rush singles chronology
"Spindrift" (2007) "The Larger Bowl" (2007) "Caravan" (2010)

"The Larger Bowl" is the fourth track and third single from Rush's 2007 album Snakes & Arrows.

The lyrics were written by the drummer and primary lyricist Neil Peart. The title was inspired by a "dysentery dream" he had while touring West Africa on his bicycle in 1988.^[1]

Peart's book The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa includes a chapter entitled "The Larger Bowl" in which he describes the dream. The excerpt in which he mentions the song is as follows:

Anyway... a song was playing in the store, a plaintive ballad called "The Larger Bowl." Something about loneliness and the misfortunes of life, I recall. No such song as far as I know, but I like the title.^[2]

In the early 1990s, Peart put words to the title.^[1] The song is written in the form of a pantoum.

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