SBF1's Rush lyrics of the Day

[Now Slappy]

This was always one of my favorites...

Subdivisions

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

[Chorus:]
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...

 

[vizionut]

another good rush tune

the pass

proud swagger out of the school yard
waiting for the world's applause
rebel without a conscience
martyr without a cause

static on your frequency
electrical storm in your veins
raging at unreachable glory
straining at inisible chains

and now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartles sea
can't face life on a razor's edge
nothing's what you thought it would be

all of us get lost in the darkness
dreamers learn to steer by the stars
all of us do time in the gutter
dreamers turn to look at the cars
turn around and turn around and turn around
turn around and walk the razor's edge
don't turn your back
and slam the door on me

it's not as if this barricade
blocks the only road
it's not as if yoy're all alone
in wanting to explode

someone set a bad examlpe
made surrender seem all right
the act of a noble warrior
who lost the will to fight

and now your trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
done with life on a razor's edge
nothing's what you thought it would be

no hero in your tragety
no daring in your escape
no salutes for you surrender
nothing noble in your fate
christ, what have you done?

 

[STRONGBADF1]

"The Camera Eye"

Grim faced and forbidding
Their faces closed tight
An angular mass of New Yorkers
Pacing in rhythm
Race the oncoming night
They chase through the streets of Manhattan
Head first humanity
Pause at a light
Then flow through the streets of the city

They seem oblivious
To a soft spring rain
Like an English rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky

The buildings are lost
In their limitless rise
My feet catch the pulse
And the purposeful stride

I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city

Wide angle watcher
On life's ancient tales
Steeped in the history of London

Green and grey washes
In a wispy white veil
Mist in the streets of Westminster
Wistful and weathered
The pride still prevails
Alive in the streets of the city

Are they oblivious
To this quality?
A quality
Of light unique to
Every city's streets

Pavements may teem
With intense energy
But the city is calm
In this violent sea

 

[Pheaton]

Hi,

Why are we here?



Pheaton

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Hi,

Why are we here?



Pheaton

Because we're here. Roll the bones.

 

[Now Slappy]

Because we're here. Roll the bones.

Nice!!!!!!

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Gotta love the "Blasing Saddles" reference.

Anagram (for Mongo)

There's a snake coming out of the darkness
Parade from paradise
End the need for Eden
Chase the dreams of merchandise

There is tic and toc in atomic
Leaders make a deal
The cosmic is largely comic
A con they couldn't conceal

There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stab at the beast
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Raise the art to resistance
Danger dare to be grand
Pride reduced to humble pie
Diamonds down to sand

Take heart from earth and weather
The brightness of new birth
Take heart from the harvest
Shave the harvest from the earth

Reasoning is partly insane
Image just an eyeless game
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Miracles will have their claimers
More will bow to Rome
He and she are in the house
But there's only me at home

Rose is a rose of splendor
Posed to respond in the end
Lonely things like nights,
I find, end finer with a friend

I hear in the rate of her heart
A tear in the heat of the art

The night turns thin
The saint turns to sin

 

[STRONGBADF1]

and for Monday

"Distant Early Warning"

An ill wind comes arising
Across the cities of the plain
There's no swimming in the heavy water
No singing in the acid rain
Red alert
Red alert

It's so hard to stay together
Passing through revolving doors
We need someone to talk to
And someone to sweep the floors
Incomplete
Incomplete

The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you...

Cruising under your radar
Watching from satellites
Take a page from the red book
Keep them in your sights
Red alert
Red alert

Left and rights of passage
Black and whites of youth
Who can face the knowledge
That the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete
Absolute

The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you

The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you

Absalom
Absalom
Absalom

 

[Audioholics]

I just got back from the Holocaust Museum in Tampa... How about Manhattan Project?

Imagine a time when it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon that would settle the score
Whoever found it first would be sure to do their worst.
They always had before...

Imagine a man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick.
But this was something more...

Chorus
The big bang took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
The end was begun and it hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots tried to hold it back
Fools tried to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say

Imagine a place where it all began
Gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys
More than they bargained for...

Chorus

Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of "Enola Gay"
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed forevermore...

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[STRONGBADF1]

Good one Clint.

How was the Museum? I've never been to a Holocaust Museum. Need to some day. It must have been surreal. (Like how could this happen.)

 

[Audioholics]

It was amazing to see what transpired. What I felt most sad were the number of times on some of the signed photographs that I saw people held on to the bitterness of what was done to them. Others were able to let it go and move on with their lives. The clinical brutality of what was done was astounding.

What's also sad is that even though this was so well documented there are some in the world that try to deny it ever happened to the extent that it did... Perhaps sadder still is how we can let genocide of a different sort continue in other countries when our interests aren't at stake.

The St. Pete exhibit had a lot of the facts (whole half a floor, actually) behind the new movie that's out on DVD, Defiance. They were very supportive of it, though I'm sure (based on what I read) they took liberties with the facts to make it more Hollywood.

 

[Masher]

This has ALWAYS been my Favorite Rush Tune:

In The End

Well, I can see what you mean
It just takes me longer
And I can feel what you feel
It just makes you stronger

I know, I know, I know
Oh, the feeling grows
I see, I see, I see
Its got to be
You can take me for a little while
You can take me, you can make me smile
In the end

Well, I can do what you do
You just do it better
And I can cry like you cry
It just makes me sadder

Well, I can shine like you shine
It doesnt make me brighter
But if I think like you think
It dont make my load much lighter


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_iIWxn7tI

 

[STRONGBADF1]

I took a break from this it seems...

I'll post something later.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

There's some new...

Kid Gloves lyrics

A world of difference
A world so out of touch
Overwhelmed by everything
But wanting more so much

Call it blind frustration
Call it blind man's bluff
Call each other names
Your voices rude
Your voices rough
Then you learn the lesson
That it's cool to be so tough

Handle with kid gloves
Handle with kid gloves
Then you learn the lessons
Taught in school won't be enough
Put on your kid gloves
Put on your kid gloves
Then you learn the lesson
That it's tough to be so cool

A world of indifference
Heads and hearts too full
Careless of the consequence
Of constant push and pull

Anger got bare knuckles
Anger play the fool
Anger wear a crown of thorns
Reverse the golden rule
Then you learn the lesson
That it's tough to be so cool

Handle with kid gloves
Handle with kid gloves
Then you learn the weapons
And the ways of hard knock school
Put on your kid gloves
Put on your kid gloves
Then you learn the lesson
That it's tough to be so cool

 

[STRONGBADF1]

"I knew he was different in his sexuality..."

OK, so not all their lyrics are stellar... lol. The chorus in that song (Nobody's Hero) is awesome, though - as is the overall lyric composition.

I've thought about this for a while and...I feel it works because it sounds uncomfortable. Quirky as it is. What do yous guys (philly speak) think.

 

[Masher]

Saw this at The Palace of Auburn Hills on the same Tour, from Row 6. 2nd time I had seen em, 1st time was for Counterparts and I'm on the Different Stages Disc 3, for Analog Kid.

Sheer ecstasy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6zZ3c4p62E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuUdm8jxkVQ&feature=related

Hopefully, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Alice Cooper and Roxy Music get in the R&R HOF before anymore "less deserving" artists do.

 

[Pheaton]

Hey Masher I was at that Counterparts concert as well! I was not in the sixth row though. I was also at the Test for Echo concert at Pine Knob.

Pheaton

 

[griffinconst]

Wow, it was wild to read the words of Manhattan Project. I've been singing along for some 20 years and never really thought about it. I knew what it was about but just didn't put it into context.

Thanks for this thread Strong. I AM a Rush fan!

If you haven't, check out Yes.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

"Time Stand Still"

I turn my back to the wind
To catch my breath
Before I start off again.
Driven on without a moment to spend
To pass an evening with a drink and a friend

I let my skin get too thin
I'd like to pause
No matter what I pretend
Like some pilgrim
Who learns to transcend
Learns to live as if each step was the end

(Time stand still)
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
(Time stand still)
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away

I turn my face to the sun
Close my eyes
Let my defences down
All those wounds that I can't get unwound

I let my past go too fast
No time to pause
If I could slow it all down
Like some captain, whose ship runs aground
I can wait until the tide comes around

(Time stand still)
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
(Time stand still)
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each impression a little bit stronger
Freeze this motion a little bit longer
The innocence slips away
The innocence slips away...

Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each impression a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away...
The innocence slips away

 

[deedubb]

Since you already posted one of my very favourites (The Camera Eye), here is another that I'd have to put in my top 5:

I. tide pools
When the ebbing tide retreats
Along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tidal pools
In a short-lived galaxy
Each microcosmic planet
A complete society

A simple kind mirror
To reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures
Chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools
They soon forget about the sea...

Wheels within wheels
In a spiral array
A pattern so grand
And complex
Time after time
We lose sight of the way
Our causes cant see
Their effects

Ii. hyperspace
A quantum leap forward
In time and in space
The universe learned to expand

The mess and the magic
Triumphant and tragic
A mechanized world, out of hand

Computerized clinic
For superior cynics
Who dance to a synthetic band

In their own image
Their world is fashioned ---
No wonder they dont understand

Wheels within wheels
In a spiral array
A pattern so grand
And complex
Time after time
We lose sight of the way
Our causes cant see
Their effects

Iii. permanent waves
Science, like nature
Must also be tamed
With a view towards its preservation
Given the same
State of integrity
It will surely serve us well

Art as expression ---
Not as market campaigns
Will still capture our imaginations
Given the same
State of integrity
It will surely help us along

The most endangered species ---
The honest man
Will still survive annihilation
Forming a world ---
State of integrity
Sensitive, open, and strong

Wave after wave
Will flow with the tide
And bury the world as it does
Tide after tide
Will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on
As it was...

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You'll have to guess the song.