Rush · Listening Companion
Vapor Trails (2002) · Track 10 of 13

Sweet Miracle

The album's most tender moment — a love song to Carrie Nuttall, the woman who helped bring Peart back to life. After an album of grief, anger, and philosophical wrestling, this quiet expression of gratitude and love is almost startlingly direct.

At under four minutes, it's the shortest song on the album, and its brevity is part of its power. Sometimes the biggest emotions need the fewest words.

For fans who had followed Peart's journey from devastation through Ghost Rider to this moment of grace, "Sweet Miracle" was the song that confirmed: he made it through.