Test for Echo

September 1996 . 16th Studio Recording

Alex Lifeson – Victor 1996 Neil Peart – Burning for Buddy: A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich Volume II 1997

Virtuality Lyrics

Available on Test for Echo

Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
Lyrics: Neil Peart

Like a shipwrecked mariner adrift on an unknown sea
Clinging to the wreckage of the lost ship Fantasy
I’m a castaway, stranded in a desolate land
I can see the footprints in the virtual sand

Net boy, net girl
Send your signal ’round the world
Let your fingers walk and talk
And set you free 

Net boy, net girl
Send your impulse ’round the world
Put your message in a modem
And throw it in the Cyber Sea 

Astronauts in the weightlessness of pixellated space
Exchange graffiti with a disembodied race
I can save the universe in a grain of sand
I can hold the future in my virtual hand

Let’s dance tonight
To a virtual song
Press this key
And you can play along

Let’s fly tonight
On our virtual wings
Press this key
To see amazing things

Like a pair of vagabonds who wave between two passing trains
Or the glimpse of a woman’s smile through a window in the rain
I can smell her perfume, I can taste her lips
I can feel the voltage from her fingertips

Net boy, net girl
Send your heartbeat ’round the world