Grace Under Pressure

April 1984 . 10th Studio Recording

Signals 1982 Power Windows 1985

The Body Electric Lyrics

Available on Grace Under Pressure

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
Lyrics: Neil Peart

One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath
A lonely desert sun

Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode —
Crack the code
Images conflicting
Into data overload

1-0-0-1-0-0-1
S.O.S.
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
In distress
1-0-0-1-0-0

Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit one’s in trouble
And it’s scared out of its wits

Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist —
To resist
A pulse of dying power
In a clenching plastic fist…

It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head and prays
To the mother of all machines…