| The Larger Bowl | |
| Cover: | Largerbowlusdisc.jpg |
| Type: | promo |
| Artist: | Rush |
| Album: | Snakes & Arrows |
| Released: | June 25, 2007 |
| Genre: | Progressive rock, hard rock |
| Length: | 4:07 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Rush & Nick Raskulinecz |
| Prev Title: | Spindrift |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Caravan |
| Next Year: | 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 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.