Rush (band)

"Well I get up at 7 yeah and I go to work at 9 I got no time for living I'm working all the time It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me, they call me the workin' man. I get home at five o'clock and I take a sip out an ice cold beer always seem to be wondering why there's nothing going on around here It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me, they call me the workin' man."

"Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"

"The battle's over and the dust is clearing Disciples of the Snow Dog sound the knell Rejoicing echoes as the dawn is nearing By-Tor, in defeat, retreats to Hell."

"Snow Dog is victorious The land of the Overworld is saved again"

"Quiet and pensive My thoughts apprehensive The hours drift away Leaving my homeland Playing a lone hand My life begins today"

"You feel there's something calling you You're wanting to return To where the misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn A place you can escape the world Where the dark lord cannot go Peace of mind and sanctuary by loud water's flow"

"For they marched up to Bastille Day La guillotine -- claimed her bloody prize Hear the echoes of the centuries Power isn't all that money buys"

"I am born, I am me, I am new, I am free. Look at me, I am young, sight unseen, life unsung."

"You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise With the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be"

"When they turn the pages of history When these days have passed long ago Will they read of us with sadness For the seeds that we let grow We turned our gaze From the castles in the distance Eyes cast down On the path of least resistance"

"Held within the pleasure dome Decreed by Kubla Khan To taste my bitter triumph, as a mad immortal man Never more shall I return/Escape these caves of ice For I have dined on honey dew and drunk the milk of paradise."

"And the men who hold high places Must be the ones to start To mold a new reality Closer to the Heart"

"When life becomes so barren And as cold as winter skies There's a beacon in the darkness In a distant pair of eyes In vain to search for honor In vain to search for truth But these things can still be given Your love has shown me proof"

"They battled through the ages, But still neither force would yield. The people were divided, Every soul a battlefield."

"All the same, we take our chances, Laughed at by Time, Tricked by Circumstances. Plus ca change, Plus c'est la meme chose, The more that things change, The more they stay the same."

"So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights. "The oaks are just too greedy; We will make them give us light." Now there's no more oak oppression, For they passed a noble law, And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw."

"Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price Almost Free"

"All this machinery making modern music Can still be open-hearted. Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question Of your honesty, yeah, your honesty."

"One likes to believe in the freedom of music but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity."

"A planet of playthings, We dance on the strings Of powers we cannot perceive "The stars aren't aligned - Or the gods are malign" Blame is better to give than receive."

"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill; I will choose a path that's clear- I will choose Free Will."

"Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete. Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet."

"We are secrets to each other Each one's life a novel No-one else has read. Even joined in bonds of love, We're linked to one another By such slender threads."

"We are planets to each other, Drifting in our orbits To a brief eclipse. Each of us a world apart, Alone and yet together, Like two passing ships."

"All there really is, The two of us, And we both know why we've come along. Nothing to explain, It's a part of us To be found within a song."

"Wheels within wheels in a spiral array, A pattern so grand and complex, Time after time we lose sight of the way, Our causes can't see their effects."

"In their own image Their world is fashioned- No wonder they don't understand"

"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"

"A modern day warrior, Mean, mean stride, Today's Tom Sawyer, Mean, mean pride."

"No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government. Always hopeful, yet discontent, He knows changes aren't permanent, But change is."

"And what you say about his company Is what you say about society."

"Living in the limelight The universal dream For those who wish to seem Those who wish to be Must put aside the alienation Get on with the fascination The real relation The underlying theme"

"All the world's indeed a stage, And we are merely players, Performers and portrayers, Each another's audience Outside the gilded cage."

"They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In our theatres and bookstore shelves, That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves."

"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."

"Leave out the fiction Fact is, this friction will only be worn by persistence Leave out conditions Courageous convictions will drag a dream to existence"

"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"

"The boy lies in the grass, unmoving Staring at the sky His mother starts to call him As a hawk goes soaring by And the boy pulls down his baseball cap And covers up his eyes"

"He's got a force field and a flexible plan He's got a date with fate in a black sedan He'll play fast forward for as long as he can But he won't need a bed he's a digital man"

"We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself? Not pain or failure, not fatal tragedy? Not the faulty units in this mad machinery? Not the broken contacts in emotional chemistry?"

"He's noble enough to know what's right but weak enough not to choose it He's wise enough to win the world but fool enough to lose it"

"I remember- How we talked and drank Into the misty dawn - I hear the voices We ran by the water On the wet summer lawn - I see the foot prints I remember-"

"I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed A wound that will not heal -- a heart that cannot feel -- Hoping that the horror will recede Hoping that tomorrow, we'll all be freed"

"Suspicious-looking stranger Flashes you a dangerous grin Shadows across your window Was it only trees in the wind? Every breath a static charge A tongue that tastes like tin Steely-eyed outside to hide the enemy within..."

"One humanoid escapee an android on the run seeking freedom beneath the lonely desert sun"

"You know how that rabbit feels Going under your speeding wheels Bright images flashing by Like windshields towards a fly Frozen in the fatal climb - But the wheels of time - Just pass you by..."

"So much poison in power The principles get left out So much mind on the matter The spirit gets forgotten about"

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

"You can do a lot in a lifetime If you don't burn out too fast You can make the most of the distance First you need endurance First you've got to last"

"They shoot without shame In the name of a piece of dirt For a change of accent Or the colour of your shirt Better the pride that resides In a citizen of the world Than the pride that divides When a colourful rag is unfurled"